The bridges were built to a one-tenth scale. A real bridge based on Nevada's design would be 170 feet long. Nevada's team consisted of Yount, Tung Ng, Greg Hale, Jeff Bean, Doug Rounds and Natalie Calderone. It took four members of the team just 2 minutes and 23 seconds to construct the bridge. The structure was then loaded with weight and its stiffness, or lack of deflection, was measured.
Deflection is a measure of how far the bridge sags when loaded.
Nevada's bridge deflected only .165 of an inch. He helped us out tremendously. He's really an incredible man. Tobin has sponsored the Nevada bridge-building team for the past two years.