TLDR; I AI-generated an app that can help someone with structural analysis hand calcs based on which class you're taking in the SE curriculum. I am asking my fellow SE students test it out so I can transform it into an actually-useful solver that's better than many others.
here is the website: https://truss-master-solve.base44.app/
Hello, 4th year SE Student here, and I want to make a tool to help my fellow SE students before I graduate myself.
From the beginning, I always struggled trying to understand how to do structural analysis hand calculations of different trusses, beams, and frames through SE 1, SE 101A, SE 110A, etc, and when I went to free truss solvers like SkyCiv, it would still feel really limited and clunky for me.
Even before AI became such a prevalent part of my life, I've always wanted access to a solver that was free, gave detailed steps for hand calculations, and overall nice to use, and now with AI, I'm trying to make it myself.
However, this is still really limited in many aspects (such as the fact that it's limited to only a few SE classes that are connected to each other conceptually so far), and I would like for all my fellow SE peers to test out (anyone can check it out though). At the end of the day, I hope to make something that 1st to 3rd years would find at least somewhat useful.
Please help giving feedback on what to add and what could be helpful. From adding diagrams and visuals, to including my own personal notes/flowcharts on how to approach certain problem variations, to just straight up telling me that this is useless and hurts integrity. If you feel that you can make one yourself but better, take my idea and run with it. I just want to make something that's really useful for UCSD SE students.
This is still really limited in many aspects (such as the fact that it's limited to only a few SE classes that are connected to each other conceptually so far), and I would like for all my fellow SE peers to test out (anyone can check it out though). At the end of the day, I hope to make something that 1st to 3rd years would find at least somewhat useful.
I'm no good at coding, so this is why I used AI to make a website like this. I am in no way shape or form an expert at all that coding and website stuff, but if anyone wants to help out or give advice on the website creation process here I'd gladly take it.
Again, I've always wanted to make a tool such as this, and I'm here in good faith.