Bridge load lab
Break the bridge
Bridge
1 2 3 4 5 6
Truck weight
40 t
legal truck
Trucks
−
4
+
Wind
0 m/s
+ One more truck
Jam
Flow
Lab
Forces
Sag drawn
True
x20
x100
Labels
Run
Rebuild
Tour
Ten stops, about three minutes
Linear 3D frame FEM (direct stiffness, 6 DOF per node) · S355 steel, Euler buckling · the fall is a toy physics model · not a real bridge
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