Post Test - Engineering
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Truss Bridge | Beam bridges that have one or more triangles.
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| Suspension Bridge | A type of bridge where the deck is suspended by hangers from continuous steel cables.
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| Critical Load | The amount of force a structure can hold before failing.
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| Dead Load | Dead loads are permanent loads; they do not change. The weight of a building is a dead load.
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| Structural Failure | A condition that occurs when structures are not able to support the loads placed upon them and they collapse.
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| Compression | The tendency to condense or squash a material.
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| Tension | The tendency for material to stretch, or to be pulled apart.
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| Shear | The tendency of a material to be divided by two opposing forces.
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| Thrust Lines | Imaginary lines of force caused by loads, transmitted through the structue to the ground.
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| Cantilever | When ends of a beam are allowed to overhang the support walls by a short distance.
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| Stress | Measured in newtons, it's the intensity of the forces trying to push or pull a solid material apart.
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| Bridge Failure | Shear near supports, crumbling piers, stretching cables are examples.
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| Three basic types of bridges. | Beam, Arch, and Suspension
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| Examples of live loads. | People, furniture, snow on a roof, wind
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| Interstate Highway System | In 1950's created a boom in bridge building.
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| Beam Bridge | Lighter and cheaper than an arch bridge.
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| depth | The most important factor in determining the strength of a beam or truss bridge.
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| Gravity, weight, and load | Downward forces acting on a bridge.
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