Northern Arizona University
2021 Steel Bridge Capstone Team
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About the Project
Welcome to the website for the 2021 NAU Steel Bridge team!
This project is separate from the AISC Student Steel Bridge Competition.
Because COVID restrictions limited in-person activities, this year the NAU steel bridge team decided to take on a new type of project that focused on steel bridge design. The scope of this project was to take the previous year’s bridge and redesign its connections using steel design principles to improve the overall bridge capacity. The bridge was fabricated and loaded to failure. From this experiment, the actual performance was compared to the calculated predictions. This information is available in the final report and final presentation.