University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Science and Engineering Saturday Seminar

1 March 2003

Alan Lutenegger and Susannah Howe

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Introduction and Overview

What's Next: Adaptive Reuse Bridge Project at UMass

Pile It On

Test-a-Member

Truss Time - Build It

Truss Time - Model It

Bridges: Amazing Structures to Design, Build, and Test. by Carol A. Jogmann and Elizabeth J. Rieth, A Kaleidoscope Kids Book, Williamsburg Publishing, 1999.

Designing and Building File-Folder Bridges: A Problem Based Introduction to Engineering. by Stephen J. Ressler, United States Military Academy, 2001. (downloadable free from http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/manual.htm)

Websites:

West Point Bridge Designer - http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/download.htm

Building Big - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/