SAMPE 2018 Student Bridge Contest winners

The winners for the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE, Diamond Bar, CA, US) 2018 Student Bridge Contest have been announced. The contest allows students to design, build and test a miniature structural bridge using various composite materials in accordance with a set of well defined rules. The bridge contest is an international competition involving schools from around the globe. Students compete for monetary prizes and for the coveted SAMPE Student Bridge Champion trophy. 

This year’s overall winner was Chengdu Aeronautic Polytechnic (Chengdu, China). Category winners were as follows:

I-beam carbon and/or aramid fiber

• 1^st Place: Chengdu
• 2^nd Place: Montana Tech
• 3^rd Place: Peninsula

Square beam carbon and/or aramid fiber (no pre-preg)

• 1^st Place: Chengdu
• 2^nd Place: Harbin
• 3^rd Place: Harbin

 

I-beam or Square beam Recycled Carbon Fiber (rCF) 

 

• 1^st Place: University of Washington
• 2^nd Place: Tongji
• 3^rd Place: University of Washington

 

I-beam glass fiber 

 

• 1^st Place: Chengdu
• 2^nd Place: University of Washington
• 3^rd Place: University of Washington

 

Square beam glass fiber (no pre-preg) 

 

• 1^st Place: Chengdu
• 2^nd Place: Harbin
• 3^rd Place: University of Washington

 

I-beam or Square beam natural fiber 

 

• 1^st Place: Chengdu
• 2^nd Place: Tongji
• 3^rd Place: University of Delaware

 

Open design 

 

• 1^st Place: Chengdu
• 2^nd Place: Tongji
• 3^rd Place: UABC-Mexicali

 

Sandwich Beam

• 1^st Place: Chengdu
• 2^nd Place: SDSMT
• 3^rd Place: University of South Carolina

 

Visit the SAMPE website for more contest details.