Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta students successfully achieved an accomplishment at the national level on D’Village 10th Edition. The representative from UNS, Semar Mustaqiim, won first place in the Bridge Construction Competition category. The team members are Dimas Luvi Zuniatama, Faza Bagus Fauzan, and Mario Hendrawan, students of the Civil Engineering Program Faculty of Engineering (FT) UNS.

Bridge Construction Competition was held as a means to develop the competence of aspiring civil engineers by competing in strong and economic bridge planning. To uns.ac.id, Dimas explained that their bridge, Bhima Juwana, used a combination of arch and truss type bridges. This combination was sought to provide an aesthetic value of the bridge and minimize buckling, as well as the distribution of weight on the bridge arch. The team designed this bridge to be installed on Sudirman Sel 1 street, Bumirejo, Juwana Subdistrict, Pati District because it has an old and vulnerable bridge.

“The arch type has a bow-like shape while truss type has a geometric triangle shape. From both types, we combined so that the bridge has a bow but with a combination of triangle shapes on its design,” Dimas explained on Friday (26/11/2021).

The team also considers many aspects in their design to meet competition criteria to create a strong and efficient bridge. They also take into consideration the safety of the bridge through structure analysis to avoid failure from diverse conditions. The assessment was also supported with software modeling to strengthen their calculation. The sliding method is adopted after considering the efficiency of the construction process.

The team stated that they were happy with the result and thanked their supervisor, Dr. Eng. Halwan Alfisa Saifullah, S.T., M.T. “Hopefully in the future, more students could win similar achievement and make our UNS campus proud,” Dimas said.

Bridge Construction Competition with “Innovation of a Durable and Economic Bridge Design for Sustainable Infrastructure Development” as a theme is a sub-event of D’Village 10th Edition, a series of competitions and entertainment events that announced their competition result through @dvillage_its Instagram account on Thursday (4/11/2021).

Source: Universitas Sebelas Maret