In my engineering statics course, I was tasked with designing a bridge and building it with popcicle sticks.
As a part of the project, we calculated the forces in each of the members of the bridge to determine force capacity of the bridge
I ran a simulation to check my calculations with some rounding error.
The materials that I used in the construction of my bridge were popsicle sticks, hot glue, digital calipers, tape measure, and wrapping paper for grid alignment.