Bridge Builder

Level 1
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Bridge Builder

Span the canyon on a budget. Your design is solved with a real stiffness-method finite element analysis (two planar girders, frame deck, tension-only cables, Euler buckling) and then tested by moving vehicles. Overstressed members fail and the structure collapses into the river.

  • Click grid points to draw members; click a joint to continue the chain. Green points on the rock are fixed supports.
  • Drag to orbit, right-drag / two fingers to pan, wheel / pinch to zoom.
  • Blue = tension, red = compression. The deck (grey) carries the road: connect it from abutment to abutment.
  • Press Load test when you are ready.

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Model: each of the two girders is a plane frame solved with the direct stiffness method (dense Cholesky). Steel/wood/cable members are pin-jointed bars, the concrete deck is a beam-column. Cables carry tension only (iterated). Compression is limited by min(yield, Euler pi^2 EI / L^2). Vehicle axle loads are moved along the deck with a 1.2 impact factor; the wind term is the in-plane component plus deck uplift; earthquake is equivalent-static horizontal + vertical inertial load.