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Key Terms
- Arch Bridge - a bridge whose span curves in the shape of an arch.
- Beam Bridge - a bridge, usually with a short span, supported on beams whose ends rest on piers or abutments
- Buckling - is what happens when the force of compression overcomes an object's ability to handle compression
- Compression is a force that acts to compress or shorten the thing it is acting on.
- Design - create deatialed plan of something.
- Force - to create a way or passage through something using physical strength or another kind of power.
- Girder - large strong beam, often of steel, froming a main spanning and suspporting part in a framework.
- Length - distance from end to end.
- Level - the amount or concentration of something.
- Shape - the outline of somethings form.
- Snapping - is what happens when the force of tension overcomes an object's ability to handle tension
- Structure - something built or erected.
- Suspension Bridge - a bridge suspended from cables.
- Tension is a force that acts to expand or lengthen the thing it is acting on.
- Truss Bridge - a bridge whose supporting structure consists of a network of beams in a series of triangular sections
- Weight - the quality of heaviness in things.
Toothpick Bridge Collage
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