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Messages - nevarmore

#1
General Discussion / Intentional collapse
November 07, 2001, 03:07:31 AM
id like to but i found another solution and waxed the falling idea. i will attempt to descrobe it.

it was a 300meter+ span and a 10 car train making 4 passes and both directions. there were anchor points at both sides of the rails but that was all. suspeneded designs all over stresses the supports, even with a counterweight of heavy steel. most of my arch desgins faield as well. what i was trying to do was build a bridge anchored on one end with legs to rest on the river bottom to support the central spans without having anchor points. making it fall into place with cables or light steel to get it to go the right driection. the problem i ran into was that the deck rarely lined up enough to allow the train across, and the water level was right at the precipice of the rails.

#2
General Discussion / Intentional collapse
November 04, 2001, 08:55:34 PM
Ok I was fiddling with having the train run into a vertical section of deck with no support. As the deck was falling to horizontal, I thought about designing a drawbridge using a similar idea. All attempts doing longer spans failed. The first demo level using a horizontal run of heavy steel between anchor points, an 8 grid space long vertical section of deck, and cables form each deck plate junction to the right anchor point almost worked.

Has anyone else attempted a similar project? Anyone have levels that would be good to work with this on?

Thanks for your help.