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Thomson, Robert A. – Engineering Education, 1981
Describes the author's experience with a model structure used to demonstrate the difference between the idealized behavior predicted by theory and the actual behavior of a real structure. The model is a truss bridge with a span of 1.5 meters. (Author/SK)
Descriptors: College Science, Demonstrations (Educational), Engineering Education, Force
