Introduction

I am building this bridge with hopes that it will hold weight, I also want to prove everyone wrong that hot glue and wood glue combined works better than just wood glue. The purpose of this project is to hold as much weight as possible, with a limited amount of wood.

Drafting Step

Went I designed my bridge on on shape I didn’t want mine to look the same as everyone else’s. I also thought that having a bridge with more height would be easier than putting all my pieces close together, creating a shorter bridge. Another thing I considered was evening out the weight and making sure all parts of my bridge were equally as strong as eachother.

Building Process

First I cut my five pieces of wood into the correct measured piece for my bridge. I secondly made the rectangle shape of the bridge out of wood. I then started hot gluing the pieces of the bridge together. Once the hot glue was dried, I reinforced the glue and wood with wood glue. After that I started creating the square for the hook with the weight to go through. I hot glued that together and reinforced with wood glue. Lastly I hot glued the square into the top of my bridge and reinforced that with wood glue.

Conclusion

Inconclusion the bridge was over all pretty sturdy but next time I would probably put the wood glue on first then the hot glue. I would also change the even-ness of the bridge because the bottom two side pieces were not even so the bridge did twist a bit. The hot glue worked well because it was hard to keep the pieces of wood together, next time I would still use hot glue just in a different order.

• 45 members were used
• 40 nodes were used
• 160 inches
• 48 grams
• 9.6 grams