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Cable-stayed bridge

Index Cable-stayed bridge

A cable-stayed bridge has one or more towers (or pylons), from which cables support the bridge deck. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 201 relations: Abutment, Alamillo Bridge, Albert Bridge, London, Albert Caquot, Amazonas (Brazilian state), American Society of Civil Engineers, Argentina, Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, Assut de l'Or Bridge, Øresund, Øresund Bridge, Barton Creek Bridge, Bicycle, Bluff Dale Suspension Bridge, Bluff Dale, Texas, Boston, Botswana, Box girder, Bratislava, Brazil, Brittany, Brooklyn Bridge, Brussels, Cable Bridge, Cable-stayed suspension bridge, Cantilever, Cantilever bridge, Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge, Car, Centennial Bridge, Panama, Central Eastside, Portland, Oregon, Charles River, Charleston, South Carolina, Chords Bridge, Christopher S. Bond Bridge (Kansas City, Missouri), Compression (physics), Compression member, Concrete, Cooper River (South Carolina), Cooper River Bridges (1929–2005), Croatia, Dallas, Danube, Denmark, Dryburgh Abbey Bridge, Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Earth anchor, Eduardo Torroja, Enclave and exclave, Erasmusbrug, ... Expand index (151 more) »

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Abutment

An abutment is the substructure at the ends of a bridge span or dam supporting its superstructure.

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Alamillo Bridge

The Alamillo Bridge (Puente del Alamillo) is a structure in Seville, Andalucia (Spain), which spans the Canal de Alfonso XIII, allowing access to La Cartuja, a peninsula located between the canal and the Guadalquivir River.

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Albert Bridge, London

Albert Bridge is a road bridge over the River Thames connecting Chelsea in Central London on the north bank to Battersea on the south.

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Albert Caquot

Albert Irénée Caquot (1 July 1881 – 28 November 1976) was a French engineer.

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Amazonas (Brazilian state)

Amazonas is a state of Brazil, located in the North Region in the north-western corner of the country.

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American Society of Civil Engineers

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is a tax-exempt professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge

The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge (colloquially referred to as the Ravenel Bridge and the Cooper River Bridge) is a cable-stayed bridge over the Cooper River in South Carolina, US, connecting downtown Charleston to Mount Pleasant.

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Assut de l'Or Bridge

The Assut de l'Or Bridge (Valencian: Pont de l'Assut de l'Or, Spanish: Puente de la Presa del Oro) is a white single-pylon cable-stayed bridge in the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain, designed by Valencian architect and civil engineer Santiago Calatrava and completed in December 2008.

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Øresund

Øresund or Öresund (Øresund; Öresund), commonly known in English as the Sound, is a strait which forms the Danish–Swedish border, separating Zealand (Denmark) from Scania (Sweden).

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Øresund Bridge

The Øresund or Öresund Bridge is a combined railway and motorway cable-stayed bridge across the Øresund strait between Denmark and Sweden.

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Barton Creek Bridge

Barton Creek Bridge is an early example of a cable stayed bridge; it spans Barton Creek in Huckabay, Texas.

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Bicycle

A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike, push-bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other.

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Bluff Dale Suspension Bridge

The Bluff Dale Bridge is a historic cable-stayed bridge (not a suspension bridge) located near Bluff Dale, Texas, United States.

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Bluff Dale, Texas

Bluff Dale is an unincorporated community and census designated place (CDP) in Erath County, Texas, United States.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Botswana

Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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Box girder

A box girder or tubular girder (or box beam) is a girder that forms an enclosed tube with multiple walls, as opposed to an ibeam- or hbeam-beam.

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Bratislava

Bratislava (German: Pressburg or Preßburg,; Hungarian: Pozsony; Slovak: Prešporok), is the capital and largest city of Slovakia and the fourth largest of all cities on Danube river.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Brittany

Brittany (Bretagne,; Breizh,; Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.

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Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.

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Cable Bridge

The Cable Bridge, officially called the Ed Hendler Bridge and sometimes called the Intercity Bridge, spans the Columbia River between Pasco and Kennewick in southeastern Washington as State Route 397.

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Cable-stayed suspension bridge

A cable-stayed suspension bridge or CSS bridge merges the designs of cable-stayed bridges and suspension bridges. Cable-stayed bridge and cable-stayed suspension bridge are cable-stayed bridges.

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Cantilever

A cantilever is a rigid structural element that extends horizontally and is unsupported at one end.

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Cantilever bridge

A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end (called cantilevers). Cable-stayed bridge and cantilever bridge are bridges by structural type.

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Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge

A cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge is a modern variation of the cable-stayed bridge. Cable-stayed bridge and cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge are bridges by structural type and cable-stayed bridges.

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Car

A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels.

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Centennial Bridge, Panama

Panama's Centennial Bridge (Puente Centenario) is a major bridge crossing the Panama Canal.

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Central Eastside, Portland, Oregon

The Central Eastside is a subdistrict of Portland, Oregon, United States, situated in Southeast Portland along the east bank of the Willamette River.

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Charles River

The Charles River (Massachusett: Quinobequin), sometimes called the River Charles or simply the Charles, is an river in eastern Massachusetts.

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Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston metropolitan area.

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Chords Bridge

The Chords Bridge (גשר המיתרים, Gesher HaMeitarim), also called the Bridge of Strings or Jerusalem Light Rail Bridge, is a side-spar cable-stayed bridge in Jerusalem. Cable-stayed bridge and Chords Bridge are cable-stayed bridges.

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Christopher S. Bond Bridge (Kansas City, Missouri)

The Christopher S. Bond Bridge in Kansas City, Missouri (often referred to as the New Paseo Bridge) is a cable-stayed bridge across the Missouri River.

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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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Compression member

Compression members are structural elements that are pushed together or carry a load; more technically, they are subjected only to axial compressive forces.

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Concrete

Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time.

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Cooper River (South Carolina)

The Cooper River is a mainly tidal river in the U.S. state of South Carolina.

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Cooper River Bridges (1929–2005)

The Cooper River Bridges were a pair of cantilever truss bridges that carried traffic over the Cooper River in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. The first bridge opened in 1929, a second one opened in 1966 to relieve traffic congestion. The Grace Memorial Bridge was constructed by a private company known as Cooper River Bridge, Inc, and the Pearman Bridge was built by the SCDOT and designed by HNTB Corporation.

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Croatia

Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.

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Danube

The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.

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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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Dubrovnik-Neretva County

The Dubrovnik-Neretva County (Dubrovačko-neretvanska županija) is the southernmost county of Croatia.

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Earth anchor

An earth anchor is a device designed to support structures, most commonly used in geotechnical and construction applications.

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Eduardo Torroja

Eduardo Torroja y Miret, 1st Marques of Torroja (27 August 1899 – 15 June 1961) was a Spanish structural engineer and a pioneer in the design of concrete shell structures.

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Enclave and exclave

An enclave is a territory that is entirely surrounded by the territory of only one other state or entity.

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Erasmusbrug

The Erasmusbrug (English: "Erasmus Bridge") is a combined cable-stayed and bascule bridge, construction began in 1986 and was completed in 1996.

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Extradosed bridge

An extradosed bridge employs a structure that combines the main elements of both a prestressed box girder bridge and a cable-stayed bridge. Cable-stayed bridge and extradosed bridge are bridges by structural type.

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Fabrizio de Miranda

Fabrizio de Miranda (30 October 1926 – 21 January 2015) was an Italian bridges and structural engineer and university professor.

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Falsework

Falsework consists of temporary structures used in construction to support a permanent structure until its construction is sufficiently advanced to support itself.

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Fausto Veranzio

Fausto Veranzio (Faustus Verantius; Faust Vrančić; Hungarian and Vernacular Latin: Verancsics Faustus;Andrew L. Simon, László Sipka: Innovators and Innovations 1551 – 20 January 1617) was a Croatian polymath, diplomat and bishop from Šibenik, then part of the Republic of Venice.

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Firth of Forth

The Firth of Forth is the estuary, or firth, of several Scottish rivers including the River Forth.

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Floating cable-stayed bridge

A floating cable-stayed bridge is a type of cable-stayed bridge where the towers float on tension-leg submerged material, tethered to the seabed for buoyancy. Cable-stayed bridge and floating cable-stayed bridge are bridges by structural type and cable-stayed bridges.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Forth Road Bridge

The Forth Road Bridge is a suspension bridge in east central Scotland.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Franz Dischinger

Franz Dischinger (8 October 1887 - 9 January 1953) was a pioneering German civil and structural engineer, responsible for the development of the modern cable-stayed bridge.

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Fred Hartman Bridge

The Fred Hartman Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge in the U.S. state of Texas spanning the Houston Ship Channel.

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Fritz Leonhardt

Fritz Leonhardt (12 July 1909 – 30 December 1999) was a German structural engineer who made major contributions to 20th-century bridge engineering, especially in the development of cable-stayed bridges.

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Galata

Galata is the former name of the Karaköy neighbourhood in Istanbul, which is located at the northern shore of the Golden Horn.

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Ganter Bridge

Ganter Bridge is a multi-span reinforced-concrete road bridge that is the second longest spanning bridge in Switzerland after Poya Bridge.

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General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge

The General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge is located at the Tablazo Strait outlet of Lake Maracaibo, in western Venezuela.

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Gnomon

A gnomon is the part of a sundial that casts a shadow.

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Golden Horn Metro Bridge

The Golden Horn Metro Bridge (Haliç Metro Köprüsü) is a cable-stayed bridge carrying the M2 line of the Istanbul Metro across the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Gordie Howe International Bridge

The Gordie Howe International Bridge (Pont International Gordie-Howe), known during development as the Detroit River International Crossing and the New International Trade Crossing, is a cable-stayed international bridge across the Detroit River, currently under construction.

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Gordon, Texas

Gordon is a city in Palo Pinto County, Texas, United States.

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Great Seto Bridge

The is a series of double deck bridges connecting Okayama and Kagawa prefectures in Japan across a series of five small islands in the Seto Inland Sea.

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Grenland Bridge

Grenland Bridge (Grenlandsbrua) is Norway's highest cable-stayed bridge with a tower height of.

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Gulf of Corinth

The Gulf of Corinth or the Corinthian Gulf (Korinthiakós Kólpos) is a deep inlet of the Ionian Sea, separating the Peloponnese from western mainland Greece.

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Hale Boggs Memorial Bridge

The Hale Boggs Memorial Bridge (also known as the Luling Bridge) is a cable-stayed bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana.

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Hangzhou Bay

Hangzhou Bay is a funnel-shaped inlet of the East China Sea, bordered by the province of Zhejiang and the municipality of Shanghai, which lies north of the Bay.

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Helgeland Bridge

The Helgeland Bridge (Helgelandsbrua) is a cable-stayed bridge that crosses the Leirfjorden between the mainland (in Leirfjord Municipality) and the island of Alsta (in Alstahaug Municipality) in Nordland county, Norway.

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Heritage Documentation Programs

Heritage Documentation Programs (HDP) is a division of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) responsible for administering the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS).

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Hong Kong International Airport

Hong Kong International Airport is an international airport located on the island of Chek Lap Kok in western Hong Kong.

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Hooghly River

The Hooghly River (Anglicized alternatively spelt as Hoogli or Hugli) or popularly called Ganga or Kati-Ganga in the Puranas, is a river that rises close to Giria, which lies north of Baharampur and Palashi in Murshidabad.

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Howrah

Howrah (alternatively pronounced as Haora) is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Huckabay, Texas

Huckabay is an unincorporated community and census designated place (CDP) located at the intersection of State Highway 108 and Farm to Market Road 219, ten miles northwest of Stephenville in Erath County, Texas, United States.

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Incheon Bridge

The Incheon Bridge is a reinforced concrete cable-stayed bridge in South Korea.

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Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.

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James Dredge Sr.

James Dredge (1794–1863) was an English civil engineer, architect and brewer.

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Jiaxing

Jiaxing, alternately romanized as Kashing, is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province, China.

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Jiaxing-Shaoxing Sea Bridge

The Jiaxing-Shaoxing Sea Bridge, sometimes shortened to Jiashao Bridge, is the world's longest and widest multi-pylon cable-stayed bridge.

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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 James Audubon Bridge (Mississippi River)

The John James Audubon Bridge, completed and opened in May 2011, is a Lower Mississippi River crossing between Pointe Coupee and West Feliciana parishes in south central Louisiana.

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Kap Shui Mun Bridge

The Kap Shui Mun Bridge (KSMB) in Hong Kong, part of Lantau Link of Route 8, is one of the longest cable-stayed bridges in the world that transports both road and railway traffic, with the upper deck used for motor vehicles and the lower deck for both vehicles and the MTR.

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Kazungula Bridge

Kazungula Bridge is a road and rail bridge over the Zambezi River between the countries of Zambia and Botswana at the town of Kazungula.

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Kirumi Bridge

Kirumi Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge in northern Tanzania across the Mara River on the border of Butiama and Rorya Districts of Mara Region.

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Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Komarna

Komarna is a village in southern Dalmatia, Croatia, in the municipality of Slivno.

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Kosciuszko Bridge

The Kosciuszko Bridge, originally known as the Meeker Avenue Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge over Newtown Creek in New York City, connecting Greenpoint in Brooklyn to Maspeth in Queens.

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Lézardrieux

Lézardrieux (Lezardrev) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France.

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Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge

The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge (also known as "The Zakim") is a cable-stayed bridge completed in 2003 across the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Leverett Circle Connector Bridge

The Leverett Circle Connector Bridge is a 1.7 mile-long highway bridge over the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts, carrying two lanes each of northbound and southbound traffic.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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Light rail

Light rail (or light rail transit, abbreviated to LRT) is a form of passenger urban rail transit using rolling stock derived from tram technology National Conference of the Transportation Research Board while also having some features from heavy rapid transit.

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Lisbon

Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.

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List of crossings of the Hudson River

This is a list of bridges and other crossings of the Hudson River, from its mouth at the Upper New York Bay upstream to its cartographic beginning at Henderson Lake in Newcomb, New York.

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Louisiana

Louisiana (Louisiane; Luisiana; Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States.

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Malmö

Malmö (Malmö,; Malmø) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Skåne (Scania).

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Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge

The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge is a bridge in Dallas, Texas, that spans the Trinity River.

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Mezcala Bridge

The Mezcala Bridge (also known as the Mezcala-Solidaridad Bridge), is a cable-stayed bridge located in the state of Guerrero on Highway 95D in Mexico.

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Millau Viaduct

The Millau Viaduct (Viaduc de Millau) is a multispan cable-stayed bridge completed in 2004 across the gorge valley of the Tarn near (west of) Millau in the Aveyron department in the Occitanie Region, in Southern France.

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Missouri

Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Most SNP

Most SNP ("Bridge of the Slovak National Uprising"), commonly referred to as Most Slovenského národného povstania or the UFO Bridge, and named Nový most ("New Bridge") from 1993 to 2012, is a road bridge over the Danube in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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New Roads, Louisiana

New Roads (historically Poste-de-Pointe-Coupée) is a city in and the parish seat of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge

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

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Nieuwe Maas

The Nieuwe Maas ("New Meuse") is a distributary of the Rhine River, and a former distributary of the Maas River, in the Dutch province of South Holland.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie; Normaundie, Nouormandie; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Ob (river)

The Ob is a major river in Russia.

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Octávio Frias de Oliveira Bridge

The Octavio Frias de Oliveira bridge, locally known simply as "Ponte Estaiada" (Portuguese: lit. 'Bridge Cable-stayed'), is a cable-stayed bridge over the Pinheiros River in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, opened in May 2008.

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Panama Canal

The Panama Canal (Canal de Panamá) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime trade.

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Patras

Patras (Pátra; Katharevousa and Πάτραι; Patrae) is Greece's third-largest city and the regional capital and largest city of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, west of Athens.

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Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge (Connecticut)

The Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge, commonly referred to as the Q Bridge by locals, is an extradosed bridge that carries Interstate 95 (Connecticut Turnpike) over the mouth of the Quinnipiac River in New Haven, in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Pedestrian

A pedestrian is a person traveling on foot, whether walking or running.

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Pelješac

Pelješac (Chakavian: Pelišac; Sabbioncello) is a peninsula in southern Dalmatia in Croatia.

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Pelješac Bridge

The Pelješac Bridge (Pelješki most) is a cable-stayed bridge in Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia.

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Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory

The Penobscot Narrows Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge that carries US 1/SR 3 over the Penobscot River.

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Pierrelatte

Pierrelatte (Pèiralata) is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France.

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Pinheiros River

The Pinheiros River (Rio Pinheiros) is a tributary of the Tietê River that runs through the city of São Paulo, Brazil.

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Pont de Brotonne

The Brotonne Bridge (pont de Brotonne) is a bridge in the region of Normandy in France, situated between the cities of Le Havre and Rouen.

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Pont de Normandie

The Pont de Normandie (Normandy Bridge) is a cable-stayed road bridge that spans the river Seine linking Le Havre to Honfleur in Normandy, northern France.

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Pont du Bonhomme

The Pont du Bonhomme is located in the Lorient region of France.

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Ponte Morandi

italics (English: Morandi Bridge), officially italics (English: Polcevera Viaduct), was a road viaduct in Genoa, Liguria, Italy, constructed between 1963 and 1967 along the A10 motorway over the Polcevera River, from which it derived its official name.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Prestressed concrete

Prestressed concrete is a form of concrete used in construction.

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Puente de la Mujer

The Puente de la Mujer (Spanish for "Woman's Bridge") is a rotating footbridge for Dock 3 of the Puerto Madero commercial district of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Queensferry Crossing

The Queensferry Crossing (formerly the Forth Replacement Crossing) is a road bridge in Scotland.

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Rande Bridge

The Rande Bridge (Ponte de Rande, Puente de Rande) is a cable-stayed bridge 9 kilometres from the city of Vigo and 18 kilometres from the city of Pontevedra, in the Province of Pontevedra, Spain.

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Reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete, also called ferroconcrete, is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are compensated for by the inclusion of reinforcement having higher tensile strength or ductility.

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Republic of Venice

The Republic of Venice, traditionally known as La Serenissima, was a sovereign state and maritime republic with its capital in Venice.

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Riccardo Morandi

Riccardo Morandi visiting Palace of Justice Competition. Riccardo Morandi (1 September 1902 – 25 December 1989) was an Italian civil engineer best known for his innovative use of reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete, although over the years some of his particular cable-stayed bridges have had some maintenance trouble.

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Rio Negro (Amazon)

The Rio Negro (br; Río Negro "Black River"), or Guainía as it is known in its upper part, is the largest left tributary of the Amazon River (accounting for about 14% of the water in the Amazon basin), the largest blackwater river in the world, and one of the world's ten largest rivers by average discharge.

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Rio Negro Bridge

The Journalist Phelippe Dahsou Bridge (Ponte Rio Negro) is the fourth longest bridge in Brazil at long with a cable-stayed bridge section of 400-metre (1,132 ft) over the Rio Negro that links the city of Manaus with the small town of Iranduba in the state of Amazonas in Brazil.

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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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Rotterdam

Rotterdam (lit. "The Dam on the River Rotte") is the second-largest city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Russky Bridge

The Russky Bridge (lit) is a cable-stayed bridge in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia.

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San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge

The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, commonly referred to as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California.

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Santiago Calatrava

Santiago Calatrava Valls (born 28 July 1951) is a Spanish architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his railway stations, stadiums, and museums, whose sculptural forms often resemble living organisms.

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São Paulo

São Paulo is the most populous city in Brazil and the capital of the state of São Paulo.

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Second Severn Crossing

The Second Severn Crossing (Ail Groesfan Hafren), officially named the Prince of Wales Bridge (Pont Tywysog Cymru) since July 2018, is the M4 motorway bridge over the River Severn between England and Wales, opened in 1996 to supplement the traffic capacity of the Severn Bridge built in 1966.

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Seine

The Seine is a river in northern France.

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Self-anchored suspension bridge

A self-anchored suspension bridge is a suspension bridge type in which the main cables attach to the ends of the deck, rather than directly to the ground or via large anchorages. Cable-stayed bridge and self-anchored suspension bridge are bridges by structural type.

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Shaoxing

Shaoxing is a prefecture-level city on the southern shore of Hangzhou Bay in northeastern Zhejiang province, China.

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Siberia

Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

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Side-spar cable-stayed bridge

A side-spar cable-stayed bridge may be an otherwise conventional cable-stayed bridge, but its cable support does not span the roadway, and is instead cantilevered from one side. Cable-stayed bridge and side-spar cable-stayed bridge are bridges by structural type and cable-stayed bridges.

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Slovakia

Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovenská republika), is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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South Carolina

South Carolina is a state in the coastal Southeastern region of the United States.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.

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South Waterfront, Portland, Oregon

The South Waterfront is a high-rise district under construction on former brownfield industrial land in the South Portland neighborhood south of downtown Portland, Oregon, U.S. It is one of the largest urban redevelopment projects in the United States.

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Span (engineering)

In engineering, span is the distance between two adjacent structural supports (e.g., two piers) of a structural member (e.g., a beam).

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St. Francisville, Louisiana

St.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.

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Strömsund Bridge

The Strömsund Bridge (Swedish: Strömsundsbron) is a cable-stayed road bridge, bringing road E45 over Ströms vattudal, in Strömsund, Jämtland, Sweden.

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Structural load

A structural load or structural action is a mechanical load (more generally a force) applied to structural elements.

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Sundial

A sundial is a horological device that tells the time of day (referred to as civil time in modern usage) when direct sunlight shines by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky.

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Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay

The Sundial Bridge (also known as the Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay) is a cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge for bicycles and pedestrians that spans the Sacramento River in Redding, California, United States and forms a large sundial.

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Sunniberg Bridge

The Sunniberg Bridge is a curved multi-span extradosed road bridge with low outward-flaring pylons above the roadway edges, designed by the renowned Swiss engineer Christian Menn and completed 1998.

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Sunshine Skyway Bridge

The Sunshine Skyway Bridge, sometimes referred to as the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge, the Sunshine Skyway, or simply "the Skyway", is a pair of long beam bridges with a central tall cable-stayed bridge that spans Lower Tampa Bay to connect Pinellas County (St. Petersburg, Florida) to Manatee County (Terra Ceia, Florida).

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Suspension bridge

A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. Cable-stayed bridge and suspension bridge are bridges by structural type.

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Sutong Yangtze River Bridge

The Sutong Yangtze Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the Yangtze in China between Nantong and Changshu, a satellite city of Suzhou, in Jiangsu province.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Tampa, Florida

Tampa is a city on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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Tappan Zee Bridge (1955–2017)

The Governor Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee Bridge, commonly known as the Tappan Zee Bridge, was a cantilever bridge in the U.S. state of New York.

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Tappan Zee Bridge (2017–present)

The Tappan Zee Bridge, officially named the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge after the former New York governor, is a twin cable-stayed bridge spanning the Tappan Zee section of the Hudson River between Tarrytown and Nyack in the U.S. state of New York.

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Tarn (river)

The Tarn (Tarn, Tarnis, possibly meaning 'rapid' or 'walled in') is a long river in the administrative region of Occitania in southern France.

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Tension (physics)

Tension is the pulling or stretching force transmitted axially along an object such as a string, rope, chain, rod, truss member, or other object, so as to stretch or pull apart the object.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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The Capital Region (Denmark)

The Capital Region (Hovedstadsregionen) was the administrative name of the municipalities of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg and the counties of Frederiksborg, Copenhagen, and Roskilde.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Theodor Heuss Bridge (Düsseldorf)

The Theodor Heuss Bridge also known as the Nordbrücke (North bridge) is a cable-stayed bridge over the Rhine River in Düsseldorf built from 1953 to 1957 with a main span of flanked on either side by spans of.

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Tilikum Crossing

Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People is a cable-stayed bridge across the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States.

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Ting Kau Bridge

Ting Kau Bridge is a long cable-stayed bridge in Hong Kong that spans from the northwest of Tsing Yi Island and Tuen Mun Road.

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Trinity River (Texas)

The Trinity River is a river, the longest with a watershed entirely within the U.S. state of Texas.

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Truck

A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport freight, carry specialized payloads, or perform other utilitarian work.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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Twin bridges

Twin bridges are a set of two bridges running parallel to each other.

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Varina-Enon Bridge

Varina-Enon Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge which carries Interstate 295 across the James River near Dutch Gap between Henrico County near Richmond and Chesterfield County near Hopewell, Virginia.

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Vasco da Gama Bridge

The Vasco da Gama Bridge (Ponte Vasco da Gama) is a cable-stayed bridge flanked by viaducts that spans the Tagus River in Parque das Nações in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.

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Veterans' Glass City Skyway

The Veterans' Glass City Skyway, commonly called the Toledo Skyway Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge on Interstate 280 in Toledo, Ohio.

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Victoria Bridge, Bath

Victoria Bridge in Bath, England, was built in 1836 across the River Avon.

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Vidyasagar Setu

Vidyasagar Setu, also known as the Second Hooghly Bridge, is a 822.96 meter long cable-stayed 6 laned toll bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India, linking the cities of Kolkata and Howrah.

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Virginia Department of Transportation

The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is the agency of the state government responsible for transportation in the state of Virginia in the United States.

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Vladivostok

Vladivostok (Владивосток) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai and the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia, located in the far east of Russia.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Willamette River

The Willamette River is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow.

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Wire rope

Steel wire rope (right hand lang lay) Wire rope is composed of as few as two solid, metal wires twisted into a helix that forms a composite rope, in a pattern known as laid rope.

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Yugra Bridge

The Yugra Bridge (Югорский мост; or Surgut Bridge, Сургутский мост) is a cable-stayed bridge across the Ob River at Surgut, Russia.

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Zambezi

The Zambezi (also spelled Zambeze and Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in Africa, the longest east-flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. Its drainage basin covers, slightly less than half of the Nile's. The river rises in Zambia and flows through eastern Angola, along the north-eastern border of Namibia and the northern border of Botswana, then along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe to Mozambique, where it crosses the country to empty into the Indian Ocean.

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Zambia

Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa.

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Zárate–Brazo Largo Bridge

The Zárate–Brazo Largo Bridges are two cable-stayed road and railway bridges in Argentina, crossing the Paraná River (Paraná Guazú and Paraná de las Palmas) between the cities of Zárate, Buenos Aires Province, and Brazo Largo, Entre Ríos Province.

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Zhejiang

Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China.

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Zolotoy Bridge

The Zolotoy Bridge (lit) is a cable-stayed bridge across the Zolotoy Rog (Golden Horn Bay) in Vladivostok, Russia.

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See also

Cable-stayed bridges

Croatian inventions

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable-stayed_bridge

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