Steel Bridge
Click here to sign up for this years Steel Bridge Design Team!
The Steel Bridge design team annually designs, fabricates, and constructs a bridge assembled out of individual, interlocking steel sections. At the Regional Competition, bridges must support a design load of 2500lbs. The bridges are then judged on aesthetics, lightness, stiffness, and constructability -- or how fast the bridge it can be built and how many people it takes.
The Steel Bridge team is concept- and design-intense in the fall semester, needing to finalize the bridge design before winter break so that the steel can be fabricated by a local shop during the winter months. Underclassmen are strongly encouraged to come to all the fall sessions where the Captains lead design discussions and tutorials of software such as SAP2000. The spring is when the team irons out the fastest way to construct the bridge and practices as often as possible!
Check out the video below from last year's competition at Northeastern to learn more:
The Steel Bridge team is concept- and design-intense in the fall semester, needing to finalize the bridge design before winter break so that the steel can be fabricated by a local shop during the winter months. Underclassmen are strongly encouraged to come to all the fall sessions where the Captains lead design discussions and tutorials of software such as SAP2000. The spring is when the team irons out the fastest way to construct the bridge and practices as often as possible!
Check out the video below from last year's competition at Northeastern to learn more:
Check out these videos from the National Student Steel Bridge Competition!
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Thanks to AISC for the videos
Contact
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Steel Bridge Captains Zach Bartula and Dan Clasby are looking for bright, dedicated students with a competitive edge to help return UMass Amherst ASCE to a powerhouse in the Northeast Steel Bridge competition.
If you are interested in doing something different and awesome, send Zach and Dan an email to find out how you can get involved. |
Zachary Bartula
Co-Captain zbartula@umass.edu Dan Clasby Co-Captain dclasby@umass.edu |
Thank you to our alumni for sending these awesome pictures and for staying involved with the team!
