Hello everyone,
For our statics lesson, we were given the task of making a bridge prototype as a project. Of course, with the happiness of having discovered the platform 10 months ago, I tried to make my design here as soon as possible. I drew my homework first through Solidworks. While making these drawings, we determined the dimensions of each element of the bridge according to the static calculations we made by hand. We made my design on Solidworks and created the technical drawing. My friend produced our bridge by placing the balsa wood sticks on top of the 1:1 technical drawing that we created.. Not only that, I said, "Why shouldn't I analyze the 150 N carry target given for our assignment?" Thanks to the power of the platform and Solidworks, I also analyzed my design. On the day of the presentation, all my classmates and teachers were quite surprised to see that colorful stress analysis on the screen. I've definitely made mistakes, but I think it was a lot of fun content! After my work, many of my friends asked how I made this color chart(!) 😄 I directed them all to the platform, I hope they read this.
Of course, I wasn't satisfied with that either. I looked at the calculation notes in my hand and realized that the struts on the lateral sides of our bridge do not carry any weight. Again, and I said, "If I try to create a model with Design Guidance, I wonder what will happen to those struts? What kind of model will I get?" I immediately opened xDesign on the platform, my hands were shaking with excitement, I wanted to see the result as soon as possible. As you can see in Figure 4. I was very happy with the result I got. I may have made mistakes, but it was a good experience for me to see that the non-load-bearing struts are gone and to watch my design turn into a more useful model thanks to the platform.Figure 1. Balsa bridge design I made on Solidworks.
Figure 2. Stress Test
Figure 3. Displacement test
Figure 4. Design Guidance
Figure 5. Design Guidance
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