This weeks project is comparing two beams. One is an
I-beam and the other is our own custom design. What you do is you follow the video that he gave us and make the I-beam and then make your own beam, which I just made a square beam. Then you tested it by putting two chairs together and putting the beam on the chairs and it should have the ends on the chairs and the middle touching nothing. You then get cans of soup and put them in a bag and put the bag on the beam. You keep adding cans till the beams can’t hold anymore. For me, my own custom beam worked a lot better then the first one. The I-beam bent in the middle and it started cracking with 5  cans, so I removed one and I bet 4 would’ve done well but I didn’t test it because it already cracked. My beam held 6 cans, it might’ve been able to add another too.