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Engineering StructuresBridge Building
Structures
Structures are anything that are built or constructed.
These are things we live in, work in, learn in, and play in.
All structures preform different functions
Apartment Building in Italy
Forces• Forces affect structures
every day. – Wind– Water– Snow– Earthquakes
• Forces that act on structures are called loads.
Loads• Live Loads
– Live loads change as a structure is used
• People• Furniture• Cars• trucks
• Dead Loads• Do not change, the
weight of the structure stay the same• Beams• Floor• Walls
Stresses
Compression
Shear
Deflection
Tension
Torsion
Compression
• A squeezing or crushing force produced when a pair of objects move toward each other
Shear
• A cutting force produced when a pair of forces moving toward an object just miss each other
Deflection
• A bending force
Tension
• A pulling force produced on an object when a pair of forces move in opposite directions
Torsion
• A twisting force on an object when a pair of forces rotate away from each other
St Mary and All Saints church in Chesterfield, UK
Shapes
Bridge Structures
BeamArch
Truss
Suspension
Bridge DesignsNot straight beams