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Students conduct several simple lab activities to learn about the five fundamental load types that can act on structures: tension, compression, shear, bending, and torsion. In this activity, students play the role of molecules in a beam subject to various loading schemes.

Engineers must consider many forces when planning and designing materials and structures, including tension, compression, shear, bending and torsion. Identify the five fundamental loads: compression, tension, shear, bending, and torsion.Explain what is meant by something being elastic and non-elastic (inelastic).Describe characteristics of molecular bonds. 0100TeachEngineering.orgFunded by Pratt & WhitneyS100DB96MassachusettsScience5.3 Explain how the forces of tension, compression, torsion, bending, and shear affect the performance of bridges.68S1009558MassachusettsScience2.2 Demonstrate methods of representing solutions to a design problem, e.g., sketches, orthographic projections, multiview drawings.68S1011180MassachusettsScience2.3 Describe and explain the purpose of a given prototype.68S1004F28MassachusettsScience2.5 Explain how such design features as size, shape, weight, function, and cost limitations would affect the construction of a given prototype.68United StatesCopyright 2012 - K-12 Outreach Office, Worcester Polytechnic Institutehttp://www.teachengineering.org/policy_ipp.phphttp://www.teachengineering.org/2011-11-077Teacher