Question: You have been tasked to make a bridge for a mouse city that is L = 1 2 f t long, the material you have

You have been tasked to make a bridge for a mouse city that is L=12ft long, the material you have selected is laminated wood and you have decided to set up the bridge on simple supports as shown in the figure. While making the bridge you realize that you need the bridge to be 8 in. tall but you do not have any wood that tall so you improvise and make the bridge out of two 3 in beams that are glued together with a 2 in piece of wood in the middle. If the allowable shear stress in the glued joints is 62 psi, the allowable shear stress in the wood is 175 psi, the allowable bending stress in the wood is 1650, and you apply a force P a distance of L3 from the left support, what is the max force P can be? You must take into consideration the self-weight of the wood, which is 35lbft3 peh sity
the answer is between 1.5 and 2.15
You have been tasked to make a bridge for a mouse

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