Spaghetti bridge engineering contest [2023]

Our engineering class had a spaghetti bridge contest, with the allowed materials being spaghetti, fishing wire, and 3D printing (for joints only). My bridge ended up holding 24 kilograms, while weighing 185 grams. That's a strength/weight ratio of 130!

For reference, an A+ on this project was to get a ratio of 10.

As you can see, I did not cut any corners with this project. FEA, physical structural buckling testing, you name it. I made it so that the safety factor of all load bearing beams were equal, meaning the entire bridge would fail all at once theoretically.

RC Tanks [2018-2021]

Leopard 2A4 [2020-21]

K 91 [2019]

RU 251 [2018-19]

T 55A [2018]

Just a little kv2 made from popcicle sticks :)

(part of a World of Tanks art competition)