In this year’s contest, the top five designs used five different design scenarios (i.e., five different combinations of span length and support conditions)–representing the greatest variety in top designs in the 14-year history of this contest. The top middle school design, by Bridge Nuts, is a 24-meter arch with abutments 4 meters tall. The top high school design, by The Fault in our Bridges, is a 32-meter span arch, 12 meters tall, with an amazingly low cost of $163,859.14. The official results of the Qualifying Round are shown below. 5,907 of these teams submitted 24,184 unique bridge designs to the contest website for judging. During this period, 8,101 teams registered for the contest and used the West Point Bridge Designer 2015 to design an amazing variety of bridges. The Qualifying Round of the Engineering Encounters Bridge Design Contest was conducted from January 12 through April 24, 2015. All semi-final bridge costs are posted on our Semi-Final Scoreboard.Ĭongratulations to our six finalist teams! Rank The winning semi-final design, submitted by Team Tiger from Middletown, NJ is shown at right. The official results of the Semi-Final Round (with consolidated high school and middle school standings) are shown below. During this period, 72 teams used the Bridge Designer 2015 to create new bridge designs, based on a unique semi-final project scenario.
West Point Bridge Design Contest 2013 ().West Point Bridge Design Contest 2012, again ().West Point Bridge Design Contest 2012 ().I’m not interested enough in the optimization problem to try to interface to their Java code, but it might be a good way to make a college-level version of the Bridge Designer Contest.
It might be possible to do that this year, as the source code is available from sourceforge. Then the challenge would be to write bridge optimization software that explored the design space much more thoroughly and tweaked the designs. I think that the contest would be more interesting to me if they had provided an API for testing bridges. It would already be much worse than that on the consolidated board, since the top 10 on the open board only fall in the top 50 on the consolidated one. I don’t expect it to stay high on the leaderboard for long. This design is currently 12 of 41 in the open contest, so clearly one can do better.
$167.3k bridge design for West Point Bridge Designer 2014.
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