A truck is crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. The weight limit is 3,000 pounds. The truck weighs 3,000 pounds.?

Question

Three quarters across the bridge, a 150 pound ( I know it's not realistic) Eagle lands on the truck. Does it break the bridge? Correct answer gets ten points.

Answer 1

No.  If the truck is 3/4 way across the bridge, it would have burned enough fuel weight.

Answer 2

Depends on how hard the Eagle lands

Answer 3

its approximated my the length of the bridge and the lenghth of an average car..... and they do a bunch of math and say approx. 3000 lbs per vehicle

Answer 4

no. the bridge will always be rated below actual failure capacity as a safety.

Answer 5

Yes,

The bridge is only designed to hold up seagulls & trucks.

Answer 6

i believe your answer would be no it would not break but let me share my point of thinking, when a bridge is built it is given a rating of (of how much weight and stress and wind etc.) how much it can stand up to so lets say that your truck limit is 3000lbs. now think about how many trucks you could possible fit onto the bridge i mean just pack them on their, well since this is unrealistic lets say 30 trucks can fit on the bridge so that would be a total of 90000lbs. if my math is correct. so you see i believe that they take the most it can hold, i mean the max possible weight and then take the worst possible conditions and then leave a little cushion so their not pushing the bridge to the max as much and they set a limit per truck and that i believe is how they get their figure

Answer 7

First - an average V8 car weights over 3000 lb.  My dinky Civic is 2400 lb.

Second - in engineering,  the engineers build in buffer ("play room") to everything.  Meaning if the real limit was 3000, they would rate it at 15000 lb. (or some safe number).  Put it another way, if the weight limit was 3000 lb, you can be sure that the actual TESTED or theoretical limit would be MUCH higher.

The same is true of everything in engineering, Civil engineering, Architectural science, mechanical science.

If your elevator say the limit is 15 people, the actual tested limit would be much higher than that.

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So a 150 lb over weight would not make the bridge collapse.

Good Luck...

Answer 8

no

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

The weight limit on the Golden Gate Bridge is a lot higher than 3000 lbs.

Answer 11

Did you know, when the cables for the Golden Gate were made, they were all underspec.?

Even so, they are strong enough to support weight far in excess of what they can possibly be subjected to.

So if that hypothetical eagle landed on the truck, it's just like throwing a grain of sand onto the roadway by comparison with the structural strength.

Answer 12

If the eagle keeps flapping his wings, the weight should be less than 3,000 lbs.  Flapping the wings lifts the truck slightly

Answer 13

No the weight limit takes into account for such stupid things to happen. You usually minus 10-20% from the real weight limit as a safety factor.

Answer 14

NO AS SOON AS YOU SEE THE BIRD YOU START TO BLOW YOUR HORN ANY EXPERIANCE TRUCK DRIVER KNOWS THAT BUT WHAT ABOUT THE DRIVER IN THE SEAT,HES GOT TO WEIGHT 225 LBS PLUS 8OZ FOR THE COFFEE CUP HES HOLDING

YOU HAVE TO REMOVE AIR FROM THE TIRES

Answer 15

Boy, that is one big eagle, but the added weight of the eagle will not break the bridge. The bridge will most likely stand another 1000lbs, but I'll bet the driver of the truck is wondering about that big bird sitting on his truck.

Answer 16

No.

The weight limit will be at most half as much as the calculated maximum load.

Truck weight limits are usually there to reduce wear and tear on the roadway as much as they are for safety.