Quote from: Jolly Blue Giant on March 26, 2024, 11:28:45 AMEven before taking advanced engineering courses, I learned that the strongest way to build a race car cage, or horizontal beams (like a gantry), construction cranes, trusses, etc., was to use "triangles", that give it incredible strength. I was taught that as a teen when I worked with a stock car driver and we were building a cage around the driver. Ever notice overhead signs over multi-lane highways are nothing more than an enormous number of triangles? https://letstalkscience.ca/educational-resources/backgrounders/why-a-triangle-a-strong-shapeSomething ancient Egyptians or whoever built the pyramids knew.
The first thing I noticed on the Baltimore Bridge was the "H-Shaped" foundations that struck me as an engineering flaw