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Suspension bridge

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A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck (the load-bearing portion) is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. [1]

108 relations: Active fault, Aerial tramway, Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, Annonay, Bear Mountain Bridge, Bedrock, Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Bhutan, Box girder, Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, Burton upon Trent, Cable-stayed bridge, Caisson (engineering), Cantilever, Cantilever bridge, Canyon, Catenary, Catenary arch, Chain Bridge (Budapest), Chain Bridge (Nuremberg), Chain Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill, Charles Ellet Jr., Chirundu Bridge, Clifton Suspension Bridge, Column, Compression (physics), Deck (bridge), Dome, Dryburgh Abbey Bridge, Duksum, Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, Edinburgh, Electric power transmission, Eyebar, Falsework, Fausto Veranzio, Ferry Bridge, Burton, Force, Fourth Nanjing Yangtze Bridge, Fribourg, Geneva, Golden Gate Bridge, Great Belt Fixed Link, Guillaume Henri Dufour, Humber Bridge, Inca rope bridge, Jacob's Creek Bridge (Pennsylvania), James Finley (engineer), Japan, ..., Jiangyin Yangtze River Bridge, John A. Roebling, John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, Joseph Chaley, Lhasa, Light rail, List of highest bridges, List of longest suspension bridge spans, List of tallest bridges, Mackinac Bridge, Marc Seguin, Marlow Bridge, Menai Suspension Bridge, Nescio Bridge, Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, Nuremberg, Ohio River, Osman Gazi Bridge, Parabola, Point Pleasant, West Virginia, Rio–Antirrio bridge, Robert Stevenson (civil engineer), Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct, Runyang Yangtze River Bridge, San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, Scaffolding, Self-anchored suspension bridge, Severn Bridge, Sidu River Bridge, Silver Bridge, Simple suspension bridge, Spider Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill, Staffordshire, Stress (mechanics), Suspension bridge types, Tacoma Narrows, Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940), Tension (physics), Thang Tong Gyalpo, The Port Folio, Thornewill and Warham, Tibetan people, Timeline of three longest spans, Tower, Trashiyangtse, Tubular bridge, Underspanned suspension bridge, Union Bridge (Tweed), Western world, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, William Strickland (architect), William Tierney Clark, Wire rope, Wrought iron, Xihoumen Bridge, Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, Yi Sun-sin Bridge, Yichang Yangtze River Highway Bridge. Expand index (58 more) »

Active fault

An active fault is a fault that is likely to become the source of another earthquake sometime in the future.

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Aerial tramway

An aerial tramway, sky tram, cable car, ropeway or aerial tram is a type of aerial lift which uses one or two stationary ropes for support while a third moving rope provides propulsion.

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Akashi Kaikyō Bridge

The is a suspension bridge, which links the city of Kobe on the Japanese mainland of Honshu to Iwaya on Awaji Island.

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Annonay

Annonay (Anonai) is a French commune in the north of the Ardèche department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southern France.

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Bear Mountain Bridge

The Bear Mountain Bridge is a toll suspension bridge in New York State, carrying US 6/US 202 across the Hudson River between Rockland/Orange Counties and Westchester/Putnam Counties.

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Bedrock

In geology, bedrock is the lithified rock that lies under a loose softer material called regolith at the surface of the Earth or other terrestrial planets.

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Benjamin Franklin Bridge

The Benjamin Franklin Bridge – originally named the Delaware River Bridge, and now informally called the Ben Franklin Bridge – is a suspension bridge across the Delaware River connecting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey.

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Bhutan

Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan (Druk Gyal Khap), is a landlocked country in South Asia.

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Box girder

A box or tubular girder is a girder that forms an enclosed tube with multiple walls, rather than an ibeam or H-beam.

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Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles without closing the way underneath such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle.

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Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest roadway bridges in the United States.

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Burton upon Trent

Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a town on the River Trent in East Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire.

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Cable-stayed bridge

A cable-stayed bridge has one or more towers (or pylons), from which cables support the bridge deck.

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Caisson (engineering)

In geotechnical engineering, a caisson is a watertight retaining structure used, for example, to work on the foundations of a bridge pier, for the construction of a concrete dam, or for the repair of ships.

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Cantilever

A cantilever is a rigid structural element, such as a beam or a plate, anchored at one end to a (usually vertical) support from which it protrudes; this connection could also be perpendicular to a flat, vertical surface such as a wall.

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Cantilever bridge

A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using cantilevers, structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end.

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Canyon

A canyon (Spanish: cañón; archaic British English spelling: cañon) or gorge is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic timescales.

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Catenary

In physics and geometry, a catenary is the curve that an idealized hanging chain or cable assumes under its own weight when supported only at its ends.

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Catenary arch

A catenary arch is a type of architectural pointed arch that follows an inverted catenary curve.

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Chain Bridge (Budapest)

The Széchenyi Chain Bridge (Széchenyi lánchíd) is a suspension bridge that spans the River Danube between Buda and Pest, the western and eastern sides of Budapest, the capital of Hungary.

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Chain Bridge (Nuremberg)

The Chain Bridge (Kettensteg) is a pedestrian chain bridge in Nuremberg, Germany.

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Chain Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill

Chain Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill was an 1808 iron-chain suspension bridge built across the Schuylkill River, north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Charles Ellet Jr.

Charles Ellet Jr. (1 January 1810 – 21 June 1862) was an American civil engineer who designed and constructed major canals, bridges, river improvements and railroads before the American Civil War.

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Chirundu Bridge

The Chirundu Bridge now consists of two road bridges side by side across the Zambezi River between the small town of Chirundu, Zambia and the village of Chirundu, Zimbabwe.

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Clifton Suspension Bridge

The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a world famous suspension bridge spanning the Avon Gorge and the River Avon, linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset.

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Column

A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below.

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Compression (physics)

In mechanics, compression is the application of balanced inward ("pushing") forces to different points on a material or structure, that is, forces with no net sum or torque directed so as to reduce its size in one or more directions.

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Deck (bridge)

Deck, is the surface of a bridge, and is one structural element of the superstructure of a bridge.

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Dome

Interior view upward to the Byzantine domes and semi-domes of Hagia Sophia. See Commons file for annotations. A dome (from Latin: domus) is an architectural element that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere.

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Dryburgh Abbey Bridge

Dryburgh Abbey Bridge was a cable-stayed footbridge of significant historical interest erected near Dryburgh Abbey, in the Borders of Scotland.

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Duksum

Duksum, also known in the past as Doksum, Dogsum or Dosum is a village in north-eastern Bhutan.

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Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge

The eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge was a construction project to replace a seismically unsound portion of the Bay Bridge with a new self-anchored suspension bridge (SAS) and a pair of viaducts.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Electric power transmission

Electric power transmission is the bulk movement of electrical energy from a generating site, such as a power plant, to an electrical substation.

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Eyebar

In structural engineering and construction, an eyebar is a straight bar, usually of metal, with a hole ("eye") at each end for fixing to other components.

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Falsework

Falsework consists of temporary structures used in construction to support spanning or arched structures in order to hold the component in place until its construction is sufficiently advanced to support itself.

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Fausto Veranzio

Fausto Veranzio (Faustus Verantius; italics; Hungarian and Vernacular Latin: Verancsics Faustus)Andrew L. Simon, László Sipka: Innovators and Innovations (circa 1551 – January 17, 1617) was a polymath and bishop from Šibenik, then part of the Venetian Republic and today part of Croatia.

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Ferry Bridge, Burton

Ferry Bridge (also called the Stapenhill Ferry Bridge and the Stapenhill Suspension Bridge) is a Victorian pedestrian bridge over the River Trent in Staffordshire, England.

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Force

In physics, a force is any interaction that, when unopposed, will change the motion of an object.

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Fourth Nanjing Yangtze Bridge

The Fourth Nanjing Yangtze Bridge is a suspension bridge over the Yangtze River in Nanjing, China.

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Fribourg

Fribourg (Fribôrg or Friboua) or Freiburg (German, or Freiburg im Üechtland, Swiss German pronunciation:; Friborgo or Friburgo; Friburg) is the capital of the Swiss canton of Fribourg and the district La Sarine.

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Geneva

Geneva (Genève, Genèva, Genf, Ginevra, Genevra) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of the Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

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Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

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Great Belt Fixed Link

The Great Belt Fixed link (Storebæltsforbindelsen) is a multi-element fixed link crossing the Great Belt strait between the Danish islands of Zealand and Funen.

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Guillaume Henri Dufour

Guillaume Henri Dufour (15 September 1787 – 14 July 1875) was a Swiss army officer, bridge engineer and topographer.

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Humber Bridge

The Humber Bridge, near Kingston upon Hull, England, is a single-span suspension bridge, which opened to traffic on 24 June 1981.

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Inca rope bridge

Inca rope bridges are simple suspension bridges over canyons and gorges and rivers (pongos) constructed by the Inca Empire.

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Jacob's Creek Bridge (Pennsylvania)

Jacob's Creek Bridge (1801, demolished 1833) was the first iron-chain suspension bridge built in the United States.

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James Finley (engineer)

James Finley (1756Judge James Finley gravestone, Laurel Hill United Presbyterian Church cemetery, Fayette County, PA – 1828), aka Judge James Finley, is widely recognized as the first designer and builder of the modern suspension bridge.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Jiangyin Yangtze River Bridge

The Jiangyin Yangtze River Bridge is a suspension bridge over the Yangtze River in Jiangsu, China.

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John A. Roebling

John Augustus Roebling (born Johann August Röbling; June 12, 1806 – July 22, 1869) was a German-born American civil engineer.

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John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge

The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, originally known as the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge spans the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky.

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Joseph Chaley

Joseph Chaley (1795 – April 15, 1861) was a French civil engineer and a pioneer designer of suspension bridges in the 19th century.

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Lhasa

Lhasa is a city and administrative capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.

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Light rail

Light rail, light rail transit (LRT), or fast tram is a form of urban rail transport using rolling stock similar to a tramway, but operating at a higher capacity, and often on an exclusive right-of-way.

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List of highest bridges

This list of the world's highest bridges ranks bridges by deck height.

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List of longest suspension bridge spans

The world's longest suspension bridges are listed according to the length of their main span (i.e. the length of suspended roadway between the bridge's towers).

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List of tallest bridges

The list of the world's tallest bridges ranks bridges by the height of their structure.

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Mackinac Bridge

The Mackinac Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Straits of Mackinac to connect the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Marc Seguin

Marc Seguin (20 April 1786 – 24 February 1875) was a French engineer, inventor of the wire-cable suspension bridge and the multi-tubular steam-engine boiler.

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Marlow Bridge

Marlow Bridge is a road traffic and foot bridge over the River Thames in England between the town of Marlow, Buckinghamshire and the village of Bisham in Berkshire.

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Menai Suspension Bridge

The Menai Suspension Bridge (Pont Grog y Borth) is a suspension bridge to carry road traffic between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.

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Nescio Bridge

The Nescio Bridge (or Nesciobrug in Dutch) is an award-winning cycle and footbridge in the Netherlands.

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Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge

The Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, which stood from 1855 to 1897 across the Niagara River, was the world's first working railway suspension bridge.

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Nuremberg

Nuremberg (Nürnberg) is a city on the river Pegnitz and on the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia, about north of Munich.

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Ohio River

The Ohio River, which streams westward from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River in the United States.

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Osman Gazi Bridge

The Osman Gazi Bridge (Osman Gazi Köprüsü) is a suspension bridge spanning the Gulf of İzmit at its narrowest point,.

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Parabola

In mathematics, a parabola is a plane curve which is mirror-symmetrical and is approximately U-shaped.

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Point Pleasant, West Virginia

Point Pleasant is a city in and the county seat of Mason County, West Virginia, USA, at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers.

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Rio–Antirrio bridge

The Rio–Antirrio Bridge (Γέφυρα Ρίου-Αντιρρίου), officially the Charilaos Trikoupis Bridge, is one of the world's longest multi-span cable-stayed bridges and longest of the fully suspended type.

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Robert Stevenson (civil engineer)

Robert Stevenson, FRSE, FGS, FRAS, FSA Scot, MWS (8 June 1772 – 12 July 1850) was a Scottish civil engineer and famed designer and builder of lighthouses.

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Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct

Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct, also known as the Roebling Bridge, is the oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States.

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Runyang Yangtze River Bridge

The Runyang Yangtze River Bridge is a large bridge complex that crosses the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province, China, downstream of Nanjing.

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San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge

The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, known locally as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California.

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Scaffolding

Scaffolding, also called scaffold or staging, is a temporary structure used to support a work crew and materials to aid in the construction, maintenance and repair of buildings, bridges and all other man made structures.

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Self-anchored suspension bridge

A self-anchored suspension bridge is a suspension bridge in which the main cables attach to the ends of the deck, rather than to the ground via large anchorages.

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Severn Bridge

The Severn Bridge (Pont Hafren), sometimes also called the Severn–Wye Bridge, is a motorway suspension bridge operated by Highways England that spans the River Severn and River Wye between Aust, South Gloucestershire in England, and Chepstow, Monmouthshire in South East Wales, via Beachley, Gloucestershire, which is a peninsula between the two rivers.

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Sidu River Bridge

The Sidu River Bridge (Siduhe Bridge, 四渡河特大桥) is a suspension bridge crossing the valley of the Sidu River near Yesanguan in Badong County of the Hubei Province of the People's Republic of China.

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Silver Bridge

The Silver Bridge was an eyebar-chain suspension bridge built in 1928 and named for the color of its aluminum paint.

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Simple suspension bridge

A simple suspension bridge (also rope bridge, swing bridge (in New Zealand), suspended bridge, hanging bridge and catenary bridge) is a primitive type of bridge that is supported entirely from anchors at either end and has no towers or piers.

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Spider Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill

Spider Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill was an iron-wire footbridge erected in 1816 over the Schuylkill River, north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Staffordshire

Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.

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Stress (mechanics)

In continuum mechanics, stress is a physical quantity that expresses the internal forces that neighboring particles of a continuous material exert on each other, while strain is the measure of the deformation of the material.

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Suspension bridge types

A suspension bridge is any type of bridge that makes significant use of tension rather than or in addition to compression.

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Tacoma Narrows

The Tacoma Narrows (or The Narrows), a strait, is part of Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940)

The 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge, was a suspension bridge in the U.S. state of Washington that spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula.

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Tension (physics)

In physics, tension may be described as the pulling force transmitted axially by the means of a string, cable, chain, or similar one-dimensional continuous object, or by each end of a rod, truss member, or similar three-dimensional object; tension might also be described as the action-reaction pair of forces acting at each end of said elements.

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Thang Tong Gyalpo

Thangtong Gyalpo (1385 CE–1464 CECyrus Stearns. King of the Empty Plain: The Tibetan Iron Bridge Builder Tangtong Gyalpo. (2007). Snow Lion Publications. p. 1. or 1361 CE–1485 CE), also known as Chakzampa, the "Iron Chain Maker", Tsöndrü Zangpo "Excellent Persistence", and the King of the Empty Plain.

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The Port Folio

The Port Folio was a Philadelphia literary and political magazine published from 1801 to 1827.

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Thornewill and Warham

Thornewill and Warham Ltd was a metal hardware and industrial metalwork manufacturer, later an engineering company, based in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England.

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Tibetan people

The Tibetan people are an ethnic group native to Tibet.

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Timeline of three longest spans

This is the timeline of the three longest man-made spans in the world, all categories, that at least have the strength to carry some persons.

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Tower

A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant margin.

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Trashiyangtse

Trashiyangtse or Tashi Yangtse is a small town in Yangtse Gewog, and the district headquarters of the Trashiyangtse District in eastern Bhutan.

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Tubular bridge

A tubular bridge is a bridge built as a rigid box girder section within which the traffic is carried.

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Underspanned suspension bridge

An underspanned suspension bridge (also upper deck suspension bridge pages 517-520) is a rare type of suspension bridge that was developed in the early 19th century.

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Union Bridge (Tweed)

The Union Bridge, also known as the Union Suspension Bridge or Union Chain Bridge, is a suspension bridge that spans the River Tweed between Horncliffe, Northumberland, England and Fishwick, Berwickshire, Scotland.

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Western world

The Western world refers to various nations depending on the context, most often including at least part of Europe and the Americas.

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Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

Westmoreland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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William Strickland (architect)

William Strickland (November 1788 – April 6, 1854), was a noted architect and civil engineer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Nashville, Tennessee.

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William Tierney Clark

William Tierney Clark FRS FRAS (23 August 1783 – 22 September 1852) was an English civil engineer particularly associated with the design and construction of bridges.

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Wire rope

Steel wire rope (right hand langs lay) Wire rope is several strands of metal wire twisted into a helix forming a composite "rope", in a pattern known as "laid rope".

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Wrought iron

puddled iron, a form of wrought iron Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon (less than 0.08%) content in contrast to cast iron (2.1% to 4%).

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Xihoumen Bridge

The Xihoumen Bridge is a suspension bridge built on the Zhoushan Archipelago, the largest offshore island group in China.

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Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge

The Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge (Yavuz Sultan Selim Köprüsü) is a bridge for rail and motor vehicle transit over the Bosphorus strait, to the north of two existing suspension bridges in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Yi Sun-sin Bridge

Yi Sun-sin Bridge (Hangul: 이순신대교; Hanja: 李舜臣大橋) is a suspension bridge in the south coast of South Korea.

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Yichang Yangtze River Highway Bridge

The Yichang Yangtze River Highway Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the Yangtze River some 20 km downstream from the center city of Yichang, China.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_bridge

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