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Pasta: strength and structure
29 July 2005 | By Martin G. Scanlon, Nancy M. Edwards and Jim E. Dexter
Every year, in various educational institutions across the globe, students compete to design and build bridges made from spaghetti strands. In most competitions, the winner is that student team whose bridge can sustain the highest load (Johns Hopkins, 2005). Clearly some elaborate design work goes into the creation of these…
