English 3 (Technical Communication) Mendez‚ Charles Wayne M. I. Introduction Suspension bridges in their simplest form were originally made from rope and wood. Modern suspension bridges use a box section roadway supported by high tensile strength cables. In the early nineteenth century‚ suspension bridges used iron chains for cables. The high tensile cables used in most modern suspension bridges were introduced in the late nineteenth century. Today‚ the cables are made of thousands of individual
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Case study 7.2 The Tacoma narrows Suspension Bridge. In the Tacoma narrows bridge project the project planning was fairly planned‚ developers and Engineers did not coordinate proper strategies and a scope management for this project‚ even before its inauguration and opening‚ the bridge exhibited strange characteristics that were noticeable right away. I think the only appropriate project planning was the budget that was obtains by the federal
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Abstract: A novel three-point method using a grating eddy current absolute position sensor (GECS) for bridge deflection estimation is proposed in this paper. Real spatial positions of the measuring points along the span axis are directly used as relative reference points of each other rather than using any other auxiliary static reference points for measuring devices in a conventional method. Every three adjacent measuring points are defined as a measuring unit and a straight connecting bar with
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RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BRIDGE GIRDERS: COMPARISON OF EUROCODE‚ SPANISH NORMA IAP AND AASHTO LRFD A. S. Nowak‚ F. ASCE University of Michigan‚ Ann Arbor‚ MI 48109-2125 Nowak@umich.edu Chan-Hee Park YonseiUniversity‚ Seoul‚ Korea chpark@yonsei.ac.kr J.R. Casas University of Catalonia‚ Barcelona‚ Spain casas@etseccpb.upc.es Abstract The objective of this paper is to compare the reliability level of prestressed concrete bridge girders designed using three codes: Spanish
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Third Bridge Conundrum Istanbul‚ where also known as Constantinopolis‚ is one of the oldest cities in the world history. Istanbul is the most populous city in Turkey and still Istanbul’s population is increasing day by day because of the new births and immigration. Due to high population‚ there is too many cars in Istanbul. Therefore‚ there is traffic problems which affects people’s life negatively. In order to solve traffic porblems government looking for solutions continuously. Although it
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always on the top of the list. But when thinking about Australia there are two super structures that come to mind‚ The Sydney Opera House and The Sydney Harbour Bridge. In this short report it can be found small history along with a short description about the Sydney Bridge. II. Main Body II.1 History The first plans to build a bridge actually goes back to year of 1815‚ but it wasn’t until 1922‚ after being delayed manly because of the WWI‚ that the parliament approved the laws for the construction
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Have you ever crossed a bridge when driving around your city and thought about how it was constructed or how long did it take to be built or is this bridge really safe and will it ever fall down. Well‚ I certainly have and I know that I don’t want for a bridge to fall down whenever I am driving or walking across one. It was 6:05 pm‚ the rush hour in Minneapolis‚ Minnesota and the unimaginable at the I-35W bridge occurred. On August 1‚ 2007 the 1‚907 foot long bridge collapsed leaving dozens of cars
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Golden Gate Bridge Lead Designers/Engineers. The First proposal for the Golden Gate Bridge came from James Wilkins‚ who at the time was an engineering student. The cost of James Wilkins Bridge was unrealistic at the time which was 100million dollars‚ but none the less it set the bar for other bridge engineers to try to work out a cheaper solution. During this time a young Joseph Strauss had graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a degree in Business and Economics. Joseph was an avid
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How does the environment a bridge is in effect how the bridge will withstand‚ even with the different pressures it faces everyday? Which environment is the best and safest place for a certain bridge? The answers to these questions involves researching different topics such as bridge types and different structures. It is important to research about different environments so the environment is simulated correctly. Environments would include a mountainous/rocky terrain‚ grasslands‚ ocean/river‚
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A View from the Bridge A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller. The play is set in 1950s America‚ in an Italian American neighborhood called Red Hook near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. The main character of the play is Eddie Carbone‚ an Italian American longshoreman‚ who lives with his wife‚ Beatrice and an orphaned niece named Catherine. Eddie is Catherine’s uncle‚ but they are not blood-related. Eddie is very over-protective of Catherine and that he is almost
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