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Monday, March 23, 2009 MOREnet, MODOT & RoundTrips Present: Bridge Construction 1 – Superstructure
Glasgow Bridge construction
Date: Friday, April 3, 2009
Times: 9- 9:50 and 10- 10:50 a.m. CDT
Grade Levels: 5-12
Cost: FREE
Registration: roundtrips@clayton.k12.mo.us
Videoconference Description: The bridge has been designed, public hearings have been held, and funding has been arranged. Now the construction begins in earnest. Join RoundTrips live from the construction site of the new bridge going over the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri. Interact with construction personnel as they share how they are bringing the design plans to life. How is the superstructure for the bridge connected to the bridge piers? What kind of materials are used? How is the structure welded together? How are the supports put in place for the road surface to come? What items are pre-fabricated and what is created on site? How does the installation occur? What are the careers involved in building a bridge? For the answers to these and other questions, join RoundTrips for the sixth program in our continuing series of programs produced with the Missouri Department of Transportation as they build a new bridge over the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri.
Tags: bridge, construction, Missouri Department of Transportation, MOREnet, RoundTrips, superstructure
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Friday, January 16, 2009 MOREnet, MODOT and RoundTrips Present: Why This Bridge Here
Glasgow Bridge Project (photos from MoDOT's website)
A new RoundTrips videoconference has been announced! Here are the details:
Date: January 30, 2008
Times: 10 to 10:45 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. to Noon
Grade Levels: 4-8
Cost: No Fee
When you travel you notice there are all sorts of different shapes to bridges that span rivers, gorges, and highways. Have you ever wondered “Why did they build that kind of bridge here?” This interactive videoconference is designed to help you and your students answer that question. We’ll explore basic bridge shapes such as arch, beam, suspension, and cable-stayed. We’ll look at the forces of tension, compression, torsion, bending and shear that act on those bridge shapes. We’ll investigate how the purpose of the bridge, its geographic location, and materials used in its construction also help determine its final design. This is the second of our ten part series developed with the Missouri Department of Transportation as it builds a new bridge across the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri. Students will see examples of different types of bridges and engage in interactive discussion and activities with engineers who design and build bridges. We’ll look at examples of bridges from around the world and the specifics of the new bridge being built at Glasgow.
To participate in this videoconference, contact RoundTrips at roundtrips@clayton.k12.mo.us.
More details on the series of programs and an archive of the first program in the series can be found at MOREnet’s website, http://www.more.net.
Tags: arch, beam, bending, bridge, bridge construction, cable-stayed, compression, Glasgow Missouri, Missouri Department of Transportation, Missouri River, MOREnet, RoundTrips, shear, suspension, tension, torsion, videoconfernce
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Monday, November 24, 2008 Glasgow Bridge is falling down…
Join RoundTrips live on Monday, December 8 from Rolla, Missouri, and Macon, Missouri. Be part of the action as explosives expert Dr. Paul Worsey (Professor of Mining Engineering, Missouri S&T) and engineers Dennis Brucks and Brian Haeffner from Missouri Department of Transportation walk us through the process of bringing down the Glasgow Bridge (click here to see photos).
This free videoconference is the first of an ongoing series of programs that will occur throughout the 2008-2009 school year. During this series of programs entitled Project MO-Bridge: Connecting Students to Their Future your students will be able to learn what it takes to build a new bridge—from dream to design to construction to operation. Students will interact with experts in a wide variety of fields and learn how specific aspects of their science, social studies, and mathematics curriculum come to life in the construction of a new bridge.
Before that new bridge can be built, the old bridge needed to be removed to make way for construction of a new span connecting route 240 across the Missouri River.
Have your students interact with the engineers who will give us technical aspects of the destruction and rebuilding of the bridge. Ask your questions about what it takes to safely destroy one bridge so you can begin to build another. See video excerpts of the bridge coming down, and explosives demonstrations by Dr. Paul Worsey.
To sign up for this videoconference (target audience is grades 4 through 12), contact RoundTrips by December 2 at roundtrips@clayton.k12.mo.us.
Tags: bridge, bridge construction, demolition, engineers, explosives, Glasgow Bridge, Glasgow MO, Missouri Department of Transportation, MODOT, MOREnet, RoundTrips, videoconference
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