chose to research the 130th Street Bridge‚ built in 1949 and is located in Cook County‚ Illinois over the Calumet River. The 130th Street Bridge is a polygonal Warren through truss with connections. You can tell it is a Warren truss bridge because it has thick diagonal members and verticals and its form of triangular shapes. This bridge is unique because it is a movable bridge and it is one of the most historic bridges in Chicago‚ Illinois. It is the largest truss bridge ever to be moved into place after
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The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate‚ the opening of the San Francisco bay into the Pacific Ocean. The Golden Gate Bridge was the longest suspension bridge span in the world when it was completed in 1937‚ and has become one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco‚ California‚ and of the United States‚ San Francisco’s city engineer estimated the cost at $100 million‚ impractical for the time‚ and fielded the question to bridge engineers of whether
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da Vinci designed a 240 meters bridge it would have been the longest bridge in the world. His plan was ambitious. In 1502‚ a skeptical sultan rejected Leonardo’s design as impossible‚ but 300 years civilization finally embraced the engineering principle - arches as supports - underlying the construction. The bridge has been constructed‚ in Norway. Now instead of spanning the Bosporus ‚ his visionary creation was destined to span 500 years as a bridge to another millennium. Vebjorn
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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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radio is. There’s something in the air and it has a home: The Silver Memorial Bridge. Ten days before Christmas in 1967‚ the original Silver Bridge collapsed during rush hour into the frigid waters of the Ohio River below. Forty-six men‚ women‚ and children drowned in their vehicles surrounded by unopened presents and a cold awareness that their lives had reached a premature end. Two years later‚ the Silver Memorial Bridge was raised a mile away from the original location where‚ to this day‚ people
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‘West Gate Bridge’ is described as being a gigantic monitor lizard poised in an elongated ‘S’ astride the River Yarra linking Melbourne’s Western suburbs with Eastern Victorian suburbs between Central Business District as imagined by Carmel Egan‚ a fine journalist. (Brown‚ 2002) 1. An Analysis of the Project’s Structure and Management: 1.1 Project Structure: The West Gate Bridge in Melbourne was going to be‚ undoubtedly‚ the largest bridge of Australia‚ with four lanes in each direction
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basic types of bridges‚ two of them are the arch and beam bridge. Of the first type the form of the load-bearing structure or its actual shape is convex. The load of an arch bridge is carried outward along the curve of the arch to the abutments at each ends. These abutments or supports carry the load and keeps the ends of the bridge from spreading out. Arch bridges can be divided into two major types‚ the old and the modern arch bridges. Under the first types are the Corbel arch bridges and the Aqueducts
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“. . . . Then‚ you can turn around and head back to the L shaped dock‚ where you then turn right to head up the big hill. . . .” The video kept droning on about directions for biking across the Golden Gate Bridge. I did not even know why I was listening‚ because I wasn’t leading‚ Luke‚ my brother was. Finally‚ the video had finished and we got to get our bikes. They were all the same set up‚ gears and brakes‚ one for the front wheel and one for the back wheel. It was nice to be biking around San
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privilege working on. The Bridge River Band or Xwisten is just one of the bands that make up the St’át’imc First Nation. The Bridge River excavation has been going on for the better part of a decade. The site mainly consists of pit houses that were occupied up to 1400 years ago. The University of Montana and its archaeological program have been the main archaeologists involved in the project‚ which is headed by Dr. Anna Marie Prentiss. Dr. Prentiss describes the Bridge River Archaeological project
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many iconic bridges in our world today. Some are big‚ some are small. Some are short‚ some are tall. Each bridge has its own story and reason to why it was made. Bridges hold a lot of history that many people are not aware of. They remain unchanging as time passes‚ and there is always history that tends to cling on to it forever and ever. Just like the Golden Gate Bridge‚ that was built in 1933‚ it holds many historical values. The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most well known bridges in the world
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