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10100 m ( Jiashao Bridge ) Cable-stayed suspension bridge hybrid. Cable-stayed bridge and Suspension bridge. 1,408 m (4,619 ft) Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge [2] Cantilever bridge. 549 m ( Quebec bridge ) 1042.6 m ( Forth Bridge ) Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge.
Closed. 1950–1951. Location. The Yalu River Broken Bridge ( simplified Chinese: 鸭绿江断桥; traditional Chinese: 鴨綠江斷橋; pinyin: Yālù Jiāng Duàn Qiáo) is a truncated railway swing bridge converted to a viewing platform and historical site. Constructed in 1911 by the Empire of Japan, it was the first bridge built across the ...
Eight Bridges (Japanese: 八橋; Romaji: Yatsuhashi) is a design of Japanese bridge that consists of eight overlapping wooden or stone planks. Its eight-part construction was first mentioned in The Tales of Ise , written during the Heian Period, [1] and was for many centuries a well known literary motif in Japan.
Bridge. A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually something that is otherwise difficult or impossible to cross.
The Brooklyn Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge, George Washington Bridge, and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge were the world's longest suspension bridges when opened in 1883, [2] 1903, [3] 1931, [4] and 1964 [5] respectively. There are 789 bridges and tunnels in New York.
But thousands of US bridges are in bad shape. In America, 46,000 bridges have aging structures and are in “poor” condition, and 17,000 are at risk of collapse from a single hit, according to ...
Laughery Creek Bridge, Dearborn County; only known example of a Triple Whipple Truss bridge in the world. Lincoln Memorial Bridge, downtown Vincennes to Illinois (old US 50) Parke County Covered Bridges. Sherman Minton Bridge, New Albany to Louisville, Kentucky. William H. Natcher Bridge, Rockport to Owensboro, Kentucky.
Physical bridge protection systems designed to prevent catastrophic collisions are expensive and represent a "significant" share of overall construction costs. Therefore, alternatives are typically considered during the design phase: [10] improving the navigational aids to reduce the probability of a catastrophic impact (60-85% of the ...