Award-winning lightweights at the Lusatian bridge construction competition

The bridge models were tested alternately and under the same conditions in the Konrad Zuse Media Centre at the Campus Senftenberg campus on a specially developed test stand and loaded until they broke.Students, pupils, parents and other interested guests of the traditional Lusatian bridge building competition cheered on the twelve teams or individual starters participating with their structures.

The victory and thus the challenge cup went to the team ‘AMON's’, consisting of Mohamad Sheikh and Ali Hassan, fifth-semester students in the Bachelor's programme in Medical Technology. With a weight of just 243 grams, their bridge had a breaking force of 3194 newtons, the equivalent of around 320 kilograms.

Second place was secured by Tim Leuschner with his "Hexagonal Bridge - SW4.35", an individual competitor who, as an experienced participant, set out to improve on his previous achievements with an optimised bridge design.

Paul Reckzeh from the Mechanical Engineering bachelor's degree programme was successful with his project "Ich habe (b)Rücken" and came third.

The defending champions from the Georg Heinsius von Mayenburg School in Brieske narrowly missed out on the podium with their teams "Stabil" and "Georgs Brücke", coming fourth and fifth respectively, and were specially recognised for their commitment during the award ceremony.

In the traditional student Lusatian bridge building competition of Mechanical Engineering students, the aim was once again to construct a bridge using a maximum of 250 ice cream sticks, 20 metres of parcel string and wood glue to carry as much load as possible with as little weight as possible.

The student bridge-building competition was once again organised under the direction of Prof. Dr Sylvio Simon with the Tool Making Machines chair and by teaching and research fellow Stephan Hernschier, Michael Weist and Pascal Fritzsche, with support from Sindy Schmidt, Shadi Sykora and Javor Takev.
The winning teams once again received prizes and certificates. Recognition for their achievements motivated the participating students to take part again next year.
The Institute for Environmental Technology and Recycling Senftenberg e.V. (IURS) funded the competition, which was organised in parallel to the student Christmas market, in its proven manner.

Further information and all results: https://www.b-tu.de/brueckenbauwettbewerb/