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Godavari Arch Bridge

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The Godavari Arch Bridge is a bowstring-girder bridge that spans the Godavari river in Rajahmundry, India. [1]

35 relations: Andhra Pradesh, Arch, Arch bridge, BBR Construction, Box girder, Braithwaite, Burn & Jessop Construction Company, Bridge, Casting, Chennai, Cyclone, Frederick Walton (engineer), Fritz Leonhardt, Girder, Godavari Bridge, Godavari River, Hindustan Construction Company, Howrah, India, Indian Railways, Old Godavari Bridge, Pier, Prestressed concrete, Railway Board, Rajahmundry, Research Design and Standards Organisation, Seismic loading, South India, Span (engineering), Strut, Switzerland, Terms of reference, Tie (engineering), Tied-arch bridge, Truss, Truss bridge.

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh is one of the 29 states of India.

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Arch

An arch is a vertical curved structure that spans an elevated space and may or may not support the weight above it, or in case of a horizontal arch like an arch dam, the hydrostatic pressure against it.

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Arch bridge

An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch.

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BBR Construction

BBR Construction, BBR System, Bureau BBR, BBR Group or BBR VT International is a Swiss construction firm specializing in cable construction projects such as suspension bridges and tramways.

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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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Braithwaite, Burn & Jessop Construction Company

The Braithwaite Burn & Jessop Construction Company Limited (BBJ Construction Company) is a Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) of the Government of India under Department of Heavy Industries.

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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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Casting

Casting is a manufacturing process in which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify.

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Chennai

Chennai (formerly known as Madras or) is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Cyclone

In meteorology, a cyclone is a large scale air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure.

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Frederick Walton (engineer)

Frederick Thomas Granville Walton CIE, M. Inst C.E., Telford Medal, was a notable British railway engineer in India.

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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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Girder

A girder is a support beam used in construction.

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Godavari Bridge

The Godavari Bridge or Kovvur–Rajahmundry Bridge is truss bridge spanning Godavari river in Rajahmundry, India.

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Godavari River

The Godavari is India's second longest river after the Ganga.

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Hindustan Construction Company

Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) is a public-private company headquartered in Mumbai, India whose businesses span the sectors of Engineering & Construction, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Urban development & Management.

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Howrah

Howrah or Haora, is the second largest city in West Bengal, India, after Kolkata.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Railways

Indian Railways (IR) is India's national railway system operated by the Ministry of Railways.

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Old Godavari Bridge

The Old Godavari Bridge (also known as The Havelock Bridge) is a decommissioned bridge that spans the Godavari River in Andhra Pradesh, India.

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Pier

Seaside pleasure pier in Brighton, England. The first seaside piers were built in England in the early 19th century. A pier is a raised structure in a body of water, typically supported by well-spaced piles or pillars.

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Prestressed concrete

Prestressed concrete is a form of concrete used in construction which is "pre-stressed" by being placed under compression prior to supporting any loads beyond its own dead weight.

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Railway Board

The Railway Board is the apex body of the Indian Railways.

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Rajahmundry

Rajahmundry, officially known as Rajamahendravaram, is a city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh located on the banks of the Godavari River in East Godavari district.

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Research Design and Standards Organisation

The Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO) is an ISO 9001 research and development organisation under the Ministry of Railways of India, which functions as a technical adviser and consultant to the Railway Board, the Zonal Railways, the Railway Production Units, RITES and IRCON International in respect of design and standardization of railway equipment and problems related to railway construction, operation and maintenance.

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Seismic loading

Seismic loading is one of the basic concepts of earthquake engineering which means application of an earthquake-generated agitation to a structure.

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South India

South India is the area encompassing the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Puducherry, occupying 19% of India's area.

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Span (engineering)

Span is the distance between two intermediate supports for a structure, e.g. a beam or a bridge.

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Strut

A strut is a structural component commonly found in engineering, aeronautics, architecture and anatomy.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Terms of reference

Terms of reference (TOR) define the purpose and structures of a project, committee, meeting, negotiation, or any similar collection of people who have agreed to work together to accomplish a shared goal.

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Tie (engineering)

A tie, strap, tie rod, eyebar, guy-wire, suspension cables, or wire ropes, are examples of linear structural components designed to resist tension.

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Tied-arch bridge

A tied-arch bridge is an arch bridge in which the outward-directed horizontal forces of the arch(es) are borne as tension by a chord tying both arch ends, rather than by the ground or the bridge foundations.

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Truss

In engineering, a truss is a structure that "consists of two-force members only, where the members are organized so that the assemblage as a whole behaves as a single object".

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Truss bridge

A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements usually forming triangular units.

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References

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

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