Week 2
Constructing Logbook!
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Catherine Waters 699173
Applied Stress
1 Critical collapse point:! The middle of the bridge wasn’t the critical collapse point as I expected. !
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It was halfway between the table and the point of applied stress where the collapse occurred.
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I think it occurred here because this would be around about where the compression (applied by Darcy in the centre of the bridge) stopped and the tensions came into play (the origin of the tension would be the table where the ends of the bridge are roughly secured)‌ so the most stress on the bridge (where it ended up breaking) would be at this point where compression becomes tension.