Truss Me!
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | Free | SCIENTIFIC MONKEY LLC | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Truss Me utilizes state of the art simulation techniques used by aerospace, mechanical, and civil engineers to provide the most realistic behavior for your structures. If well designed, your structures will resist as they would in real life*. If your design has flaws, the structure will fail realistically*!
*Truss Me has been created for educational and recreational purposes only. It must not be used under any circumstances to design or compute real structures.
Reviews
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dave________
Look at the moon landing, level 14. Where are the requirements? You supply no directions, no explanations of devices that are added to the structure, no required goal.......... This could be easily added as a main menu. You were asked for this over 2 years ago.
May be accurate but NOT a game
amateur6
Simply adding 0-3 "gold nut" ratings as a "scoring" mechanism doesn't make something a game. Let's break this thing down: 1) No instructions. Period. 2) Any kind of GOAL for each stage. First stage? I got 3 gold nuggets! Second stage? One. WHY? Who knows! I used the minimum possible struts with the minimum possible widths. What was I supposed to do? Oh, I got it... Delete this.
Professor
BuzzBuzzBuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
This is an awesome program for learning about the design of truss structures. Really fun to play.
Intuition, check.
DaveJosephB
This app is pretty awesome. I bought it a few weeks ago and have been working my way through it. This app is great for developing a fundamental intuition about how truss structures work, how stresses are distribute through a truss, and where compression and tension occur during loading. This would be a great supplement to any beginning engineers education. The levels get increasingly more difficult. This app would be invaluable for a beginning engineer
Perfect app for curious minds -- young and old alike!
Kevin Okseniuk
I am an aerospace engineering student at a rigorous university in the United States. I take pride in studying hard and learning the material in traditional ways, but I would also highly encourage teachers and college professors to introduce this type of technology (of which TrussMe! is a prime example) into their teaching methodology. As many of you well know, the first few years of undergraduate education are meant to solidify the fundamentals and develop the students' intuition to solve more complex problems in their upper level courses and professional careers. Often, for the majority of students, structural labs are the first exposure to experimental, constraint-driven, design-minded challenges. This app is an excellent way to anticipate and smooth out that transition from textbook problems to the machine shop, as well as an inexpensive solution to their early sketches, analysis validation, and virtual prototypes. On a side note, I got this app for my dad for Christmas too. He's never had an opportunity to attend college like me, but he's the tinkerer-type... He absolutely loved TrussMe! And man, what an intuition he already has!
Addictive learning fun
SharpGraver
Being a mechanical kind of guy I was immediately drawn into this app. I couldn't put it down. Great fun and educational. Great job. Keep the updates coming.
Revolutionary learning
Prof. MJSmith
Students in mechanics need to obtain an engineering sense of the mathematics and physics. This app is a revolutionary way for them to understand the concepts. It is invaluable for engineering students, and it is an excellent tool for high school students to see the application of the maths and physics. I give it my highest recommendation!
Reminds me of structural-100
JRE-USA
Great fun but so many product ideas come to mind for enhancements. I hope the authors are planning to add things like the ability to control natural damping, and springs, or even the ability to save your bits so you can re-use them in a bigger item.. in fact a bigger field would be nice.. I’ll give it good points for a new and growing product. keep up the good work.
