Recent content by David Goldman

I have been reading about tensile strength , however, I noticed it was only for materials, not based on different designs. I am currently in my senior year of high school. This is not really explained in my physics textbook as it pertains more to engineering. I read about stress, strain, and...

Purpose: I want to find the amount of stress or ultimate tensile strength of different designs of bridges.

Homework Statement I'm not sure if this belongs here, sorry if it does not. I am trying to find the most amount of mass a bridge can hold before deforming/collapsing. I was trying to factor stress/ultimate tensile strength into it in a way. Is there a way I can calculate ultimate tensile...