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Expert: Bryan P. Lindsey, P.E. - 3/16/2009


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I would like to know how to build a structure using only 10 drinking straws
that will be 5 inches tall and support a weight of 1kg
No glue tape or pins...just straws

Answer
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/phy03.sci.phys.mfe.zstrawbridge/

Try this link it may help, unfortunately I am not a structural engineer. Additionally I had a hard time finding a website that did not use at least some of the items you excluded.

Bryan Lindsey, P.E.
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Bryan P. Lindsey, P.E.

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I am an expert in Civil Engineering with a degree form the Georgia Institute of Technology with 12 years experience in the following fields of Civil engineering; Transportation, General civil, Civil site design, drainage, project management and many others.

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I have 12 years experience in multiple fields of civil engineering. I spent the first four years of my career in the transportation industry by being a design engineer for prominent transpotation firm in Atlanta. I moved from there to civil site design and worked as a project manager for the next six years and currently I am the Director of Transportation for same firm.

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Member of American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE), Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Bachelors of Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1996.

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