Take this conventional bridge design

So I am in Statics and Strengths of Materials right now. In this class we learn a lot about members and tension strengths and Elastic regions. However, most people know this class as the bridge building class. We were separated into teams of two and we had to design and construct bridges. Now this sounds like a lot of fun, but when you realize that you only have two days to do lots of math and construct a semi-complicated object completely from designs that YOU have created, you begin to try to simplify things a lot. Most people still manage to come up with a good design that will be more then adequate to hold the required 9kg. In fact, most of them look like this:



My partner Mitch and I decided to move as far away from this concept as possible. In fact we decided to stray as far away from ANY conventional bridge design. That's how we came up with this:



She may not look like much, but if our calculations are correct (and they most certainly are) then it will hold hold close to 100 kg. Whether this is true or not remains to be seen. We get to test them in about a week, so I will let you know how it does.