Truss Me! was an educational app developed by Scientific Monkey LLC. It was removed from Google Play Feb 18, 2024 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Truss Me! had been downloaded 250 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Truss Me! was rated 3.98 out of 5 stars, based on 1.1 thousand ratings.
App Information
Truss Me! was free to download. The APK download size was 18.61 MB. The last available version was 1.91. The last update was on June 5, 2016.
Technical Requirements
Truss Me! required Android 2.3+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play February 2015.
Description
Designed by a true rocket scientist, Truss Me helps you learn to design truss structures while having fun! At each challenge, design trusses that are light and strong and you will earn precious golden nuts.
Truss Me utilizes state of the art simulation techniques used by aerospace, mechanical, and civil engineers to provide the most realistic behavior for your trusses. If well designed, your trusses will resist as they would in real life*. If your truss has flaws, the structure will fail realistically*!
Truss Me works well with dynamic problems as well, so you can build from bridges, roofs, and cranes to impact problems involving crash of spacecrafts into the ground!
As an instructor, you can teach your students how to design trusses using the freestyle mode. In this mode, you can design an arbitrary truss, e.g. a bridge, roof, crane, or even a spacecraft, and show visually the difference between tension and compression. You can also explain the difference between failure under tension and compression. Then, you can use the challenges to organize a truss design competition, in which students would compete to achieve the maximum score at each level. Truss design competitions utilizing Truss Me! have been carried out at top schools in the U.S and abroad!
Usage TIPS:
1) Joints are fundamental, as you can only build bars from one existing joint to another, and add supports and loads to existing joints only. 2) If you keep your finger down when adding a joint, you will see a grid. Without lifting the finger, you can drag the joint to be aligned with the grid. 3) You can also drag existing joints using the same procedure described above. 4) You can pinch and zoom your truss with 2 fingers to tune small-size structural details. Moving two fingers also allows you to pan the structure around. 5) Red color means tension and blue compression. Blue bars will fail at much lower loads due to buckling! 6) Please refer to the educational section on our website for more details!
*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.
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★★★★★
This game is nice but if only value of weight is given along the elasticity and material of rod is given then it would be much better.
★★★★★
Good game, I played it for a while I just wish there were more levels to play.
★★★★★
Best structure simulation game! It takes into account many realistic factors like buckling, structure weight, material yielding/stretching. Real and unique challenges. Only problem is the challenges are so good you'll want more. I've yet to find another structure game that is even half as good as this. Please update more or make version 2.
★★★★★
Excellent game for learning to develop intuitive structural design
★★☆☆☆
No instructions at all towards the objective for any level. No labels on any materials or descriptions of what they do. The physics of the game is cool and fun to play aimlessly for the first few levels. But quickly gets boring with no symmetry tools for building bigger trusses etc.
★★☆☆☆
Ok. The game looks interesting. But never having gamed before... how do you PADD the bars and such. Your assuming everyone knows how.
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