The Steel Bridge Team competes each year to design and fabricate a functional steel bridge. The bridge is entirely student built and the project requires months of planning and labor. Team members design bridges using advanced software and vie to have their design selected by the team. Once our team’s design has been chosen, we order steel and begin working in the student design shop to make the bridge’s components.
New members learn how to weld and cut steel pipe as we implement our design. Once construction is complete…..it’s time to disassemble the bridge! As regional competition nears, the team repeatedly practices rebuilding the bridge and strives to complete the task in the smallest amount of time possible.
Since we fabricate everything for our bridge ourselves it takes a lot of effort and money so if you would like to donate to help us, visit our crowdfunding site: https://udel.givecorps.com/projects/6727-asce-steel-bridge-team
Each year, the rulebook changes and we face new challenges and constraints. However, our team has proven itself as a contender and a few years ago our bridge reached the national level! Check out this year’s rules here: https://www.aisc.org/globalassets/aisc/university-programs/nssbc/2018-nssbc-rules-rev-12.pdf
The bridge we took to Regionals last year!
For more information, feel free to contact Steel Bridge Captains Max Feigelman (mfeigel.edu) and Max Stong (maxstong@udel.edu).
Photos from the Regional Competition of the team building the bridge and load testing our design:
