For my final project in ENGS 33 (Solid Mechanics) in fall ’15, I built a 6″ plywood cantilever bridge along with three other Thayer students, including frequent collaborator Liam Grace-Flood. Numerous iterations of our bridge were modeled in SolidWorks before we began building, and our failure load of just over 400 lbs (!) was predictedContinue reading “Cantilever Bridge”