Truss Design Project

Well its been a while since ive been on here but i had a few new pictures i thought might be cool to add. It was our engineering design project for this quarter. Overall it did fairly well, topping out at around 1500 pounds before it failed. Well, theres more work to be done so thats all for now but how in the world has everyone been doing???? :?:

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1500 lbs? :shock: I'm impressed! What were the design specs? Have you guys taken finals yet?

Things are moving along over here. Bernadette's training for her triathlon in June.

My last day of work before my big break is June 23 so I'm counting down the days... We're still planning our trip to Europe this summer. We bought the plane tickets last week so going over there the last three weeks in July. It looks like we're going to visit England, France, Spain & Italy. Now we have to figure out which cities we want to visit but they all sound so nice. :)


Shawn

He gave us 20, 3 inch long, 2X4 blocks and about 30 ft of dowel rod. It had to be 30 in across the base, 14-16 in tall, and 6-8 in wide so that it fit in the machine he had and it was loaded in three places across the top. Yeah finals are coming up so we have reports and presentations on that truss and fun tests to take in the next two weeks. Our last day for finals is the 20th so ill be heading home sometime shortly thereafter. Yalls trip sounds like its coming together nicely. I could imagine deciding exactly where to go and how to spend your weeks would be rather difficult. Id like to have a month or two or three to just cruise around aimlessly taking it all in. Good luck with the training Bernadette. Hope your biking is coming along better than before. Well Im off for now.
Devin