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by gere 5142 days ago
Sorry, what do you mean with "bridge design"? Great first app, by the way!
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You use a series of members under tension or compression to support a load-bearing surface spanning a gap. Then you see if it falls down under a static or dynamic load. It's a common exercise for engineering students.

I hear there's a nice one in San Francisco.