Friday, April 3, 2009

Desinging Bridge

Once again, we need to do the challenging project asking us to do the pedestrian bridge in the civil engineers way. Am going to take the mechanical stream, but still to learn some of the civil engineering thing. The project asked us to design a pedestrian bridge using the equivalent trusses due to the load the bridge will have. The design should be accurate and may be able to face the worst-case scenario, let say there's lots of people staying on the bridge. Obviously I hate the calculating part but there's a thing I like - doing the sketch of the bridge on the computer. I were recommended bu the tutor to use the Autocad but since I dont have the basics, I use Google SketchUp Pro 7 and still the 3D model doesnt created very well, it suppose to provide grids on the sketching pad. Luckily the Google layOut provides what we want. And here's our first attempt using this kinda software. should be better, hopefully.



We did some research to some of the pedestrian bridges around Sunway to get the real imaginery of our bridge.



5 comments:

AkuAyie said...

Do you think its possible to make "moving passage-ways" on pedestrian bridges? The ones you see in KLIA.

Hariz Zulkarnain said...

it requires high cost in term of building it up and also maintenance.
maybe it is relevant for bridge of grand building such as klcc but i don't think it is worth for a pedestrian bridge across a regular road. =)

acapviv said...

matang!! ;)

AkuAyie said...

oh cool... actually, never been in KLCC building. Dunno what its like on its bridge. I agree on high cost and maintenance. Anyway, hope your project goes well.

Anonymous said...

aahaa...guno software la mat arih...'west point bridge designer'...download software ni... free jah...software nih xyah belaja...sene jah nok guno.....

sblum guno software nih.....mg keno tetapkan specification ngan constraint utk bridge mg tuh...
pastuh mg keno tau la sikit pasal truss bridge ni...jenis2 truss bridge...

ak xtau la software ni sesuai ko dop ngan projek mg tuh...
tapi ak rase bole je..hahaa..

p/s: sajo singgoh kat blog mg...
xpo ko nie ak post comment kuk bahaso kelate???..jange delete sudo la mat arih komen ak...hahaa