Schnittkraftmeister

TU Graz

About this game

Today buildings, structures and machines are almost always designed by computer-generated diagrams of internal forces. One of the skills required by an engineer is to verify the results of an analysis and to spot internal force diagrams that can not be right. This is why the "Schnittkraftmeister" was conceived: Students get an idea of internal force diagrams by playful learning.

Given is a structure under a static external load. Three different solutions for the diagram of internal forces are shown, but only one is correct. The faster the correct answer is chosen the more points are given. Be careful, when choosing a wrong solution, the game is over and all points for the current level are lost!

This serious game is for persons, who have a basic knowledge in structural analysis and of external and internal forces in structures. The target audience are aspiring civil or mechanical engineers.

Ratings and reviews

1 the game is awesome! 2 has a big flaw, that is the compression/tension +/- indicators for shear and axial forces. it is manageable on horizontal girders, but after it is angled it often turns into a gamble (even when I assume that it is clockwise or CCW rotation somehow it doesnt work) SO PLEASE INCLUDE + & - IN THE DIAGRAMS thank you :) awesome game otherwise 😎

I think it would be better if there will be no limited time when difficult structures appear. It would be better if the answers can be seen all together, without having to swipe left or right in order to find the right answer. It would save time for sure, since we're under clock.

The game is great. The issue, as mentioned by other people, is that the right answer somehow cannot be chosen anymore. Hence the whole game is unplayable.

What's new

Bugfixes from the last release