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Errrrr spack as the construction workers fall to their death. 11 people died while on the golden bridge working on the bridge. After all those deaths they later installed a net and many people were saved.There are many types of bridges like suspension,beam, truss and arch.So in this nonfiction essay you will know all about suspension,beam, truss and arch bridges. There are many types of bridges that are used for different things. This essay is about different bridges. A suspension bridge is usually a big bridge that stretches a long ways.The first model of a suspension bridge was built in the 1800s in and is used today. Suspension bridges have long cables that hold the bridge without piers. A suspension bridge is a very expensive Bridge because of the materials that it uses. A suspension
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An arch bridge has a slight Bend in the middle that makes itself sturdy. Most arch bridge is as old as rock itself.A beam bridge is made of many different things mostly steel and prestressed concrete.A beam bridge is the simplest and the oldest bridge ever created. The beam bridge is so simple all it consists of is a log or we can go more advanced with steel and concrete. The beam bridge may be easy and inexpensive to build but is not the sturdiest. The beam bridge is Not sturdy because of the lack of materials used and that it is square. A beam bridge is made for depending on the place, long or short distances.Truss Bridges at the beginning were made of wood and iron . Most bridges were made of stone but the the truss Bridge was made of wood and iron because it can withstand a lot of tension unlike stone. Now a days truss bridges are made of metal. The truss bridge is a very strong bridge.The truss bridge is strong but is very very expensive and hard to build. The truss on the truss bridge is made to keep the wind from blowing it over.The truss is also to keep the tension from
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Initially, suspension bridges before 1940 were made of piers, towers, wires, anchorages, and roadways. Piers were the main foundation for the suspension bridges. There usually were two of them, which were made out of cement and were entrenched in ground underneath the body of water that the bridge was spanned across. Towers were built on top of the piers to provide a means of connection for the roadways and wires. Wires were connected to the towers, roadways, and anchorages to provide tension support for the weight of the bridge. The anchorages were large cement platforms that were planted into the ground on either side of the land so that the wires could be connected to it. Lastly, the roadways were the main point of the suspension bridge. They usually were wide enough to provide four lanes of traffic and stretched from one side of the bridge to the other. This was the basic design of the suspension bridges
Campbell's Covered Bridge built in 1909, is the only remaining covered bridge in South Carolina. Off Hwy 14 near Gowensville.
Bridges are a vital part of people’s everyday life and without them people would not be able to do nearly as much as is possible today. The weather in the outer banks of North Carolina is very rough and can be very detrimental to the various structures on them. When hurricanes come near North Carolina the outer banks are hit the worst. Bridges on the outer banks keep being destroyed by weather and so the people there have to think about the cost, the effectiveness, and the need between a strong expensive bridge that will be able to handle rough weather or a cheap quick to build bridges that may fall with any extreme weather.
Since the early days, the men try overcome environmental challenges and, in this process, ends up creating amazing masterpieces of engineering. Among this works, the bridges appears as the clearest representatives of how the mankind could adapt to Earth’s contours. If the shape of landscape can’t be changed, the bridges are the solution to link two places and allows the connection of the traffic to improve aspects such as the communication and the trade. Depending to the need, to the sources and to the environment, the bridge can be constructed in a specific configuration. There are five main sorts of bridges configurations. First, there is the simplest bridge, the beam bridge. Second, the arch bridge, one of the oldest kind. There are the truss, composed of set of trellises. Lastly, there are the cable-stayed and
Wald is a reporter for New York Times. He mentioned the reason for why the interstate 35W bridge would collapse into the Mississippi River was because there was a mistake in the bridge’s design. The reason was that there were few metal plates were too thin to be a junction of the bridge. So, these weak junctions caused the collapsed of the 35W bridge and let to 13 people killed during this accident. The Interstate 35W bridge had been existed for over 40 years after it was constructed in 1960s. After a long period of time, the bridge began to have weak points and require frequently repair for the bridge to make it safe. However, the changes made in the bridge made the bridge even weaker. After the bridge was collapsed into the Mississippi River, the National Transportation Safety Board held a conference to discuss the investigation about the cause of the bridge collapsed. Mostly, the investigators would
Hecox (2011) says that the arch structure of the Tillman Bridge makes the canyon walls hold the weight of both vehicles and the bridge itself. In addition, the arch structure allows a better vision of the canyon for the drivers, which was a request of the population to the engineers of the project. In the other hand, according to Jones (2015), the truss structure of the new St. Anthony Bridge also was requested by the population because they wanted to keep a truss bridge in that place. The author also affirms that the St. Anthony Bridge is a truss, but the project team proposed adding a posttensioned concrete bottom chord to the steel truss in order to reinforce it. The project team made this choice because one bridge in Minnesota has collapsed in 2007, and the engineers wanted to lessen the fracture-critical issues to avoid a new catastrophe. In addition, this posttensioning approach wiil make the structure redundant for both resiliency and long-term durability. In conclusion, both bridge's structures were right chosen in order to provide safety and beauty in both
The most common types are the beam bridges, arch bridges, suspension bridges, cantilever bridges, cable-style, and the kind I am going to research is truss bridge.
The Principle upon that the triangle is the strongest and most rigid engineering shape. By arranging the framework of triangles in patterns that change from design to design, the structure acquired different appearances and served different targets depending on the needs of bridge building. The pony truss is the smallest type and usually limited to lengths under 140 feet. It is distinguished by its low profile and absence of bracing above the roadway with most under 100 feet. The through truss by comparison is greater in length and height and consists of a tunnel-like structure that carries traffic through a system of overhead bracing which ties together the upper chords of the bridge.
There are also several types of dental bridges that one can choose from and they are as follows: 1. Traditional Bridges: They are the most common type of bridges made from either porcelain fused to metal or ceramics. It involves the implanting of the created crown especially for the tooth or implant on either side of the missing tooth with a pontic or artificial tooth in between.
A bridge is a load bearing structure spanning a passage over a gap or barrier, such as a river or roadway. Some examples of bridge types are; suspension bridge (George Washington Bridge connecting New Jersey with New York City), truss arch bridge (Hurricane Deck Bridge in Hurricane Deck, Missouri), and a cable-stayed bridge (The modern Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Saint Petersburg). Another example is a cantilever bridge (the former Sunshine Skyway Bridge). Rarely do these structures ever have catastrophic malfunctions, however, it does happen. The citizens of Saint Petersburg, Florida who have lived here since 1980 remember the collapse of the old Sunshine Skyway Bridge. On May 9, 1980, a large ship hit the Skyway in the fog and it collapsed,
It is shaped in a way to transfer weight to the towers and anchors with its tension (O'Connor, 1971, p. 372). Cables are made of high strength wires spirally bound to form a rope (O'Connor, 1971, p. 372). Vertical cable suspenders that are fastened to the main cables hang the actual roadway. Stiffening girders and trusses are along the side of the bridge to distribute concentrated loads and help to keep the motion of the bridge at a minimum (Troitsky, 1994, p115).
The bridge has a very well designed ‘sustainability’ concept, relying on upcycled materials to complete the bridge. These upcycled materials consist of the wood, the fishing net, the oil barrels and the plastic shielding for the barrels. These materials can be used for functional roles in the design, such as platforms, floatation, safety lines across hand rails, and so on. The bridge’s sustainability concept can be further supported by the ease of replacing materials, and not throwing them in the bin. The materials such as wood, plastic and pieces of metallic bolts and nuts can be recycled and reused for other purposed such as furniture, storage or completely recycled back into a molten form for the metallic objects.
The lattice bridge is a form of truss bridge that uses a large number of small and closely spaced diagonal elements that form a lattice. A design to allow a substantial bridge to be made from planks employing skilled labor, rather than heavy timbers and more expensive carpenters, this type of bridge has also been constructed using a large number of relatively light iron or steel members.
Because of advancements in today’s technology in construction field, many types of bridges are being constructed depending on the requirement and their suitability for the situations.