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This list of cantilever bridges ranks the world's cantilever bridges by the length of their main span. A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using cantilevers: structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end.
Bridge of the Gods (modern structure) Carquinez Bridge; Champlain Bridge; Commodore Barry Bridge - 1,644 feet (501 m) Conde McCullough Memorial Bridge; Crescent City Connection - 1,575 feet (480 m) El Ferdan Railway Bridge; Forth Bridge - 520 metres (1,710 ft) cantilever span; George Washington Memorial Bridge; Gramercy Bridge
A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end (called cantilevers).For small footbridges, the cantilevers may be simple beams; however, large cantilever bridges designed to handle road or rail traffic use trusses built from structural steel, or box girders built from prestressed concrete.
A cantilever in a traditionally timber framed building is called a jetty or forebay. In the southern United States, a historic barn type is the cantilever barn of log construction. Temporary cantilevers are often used in construction. The partially constructed structure creates a cantilever, but the completed structure does not act as a cantilever.
It carries a daily traffic of approximately 100,000 vehicles [12] and possibly more than 150,000 pedestrians, [10] easily making it the busiest cantilever bridge in the world. [13] The third-longest cantilever bridge at the time of its construction, [14] the Howrah Bridge is currently the sixth-longest bridge of its type in the world. [15]
A bridge can play many roles in art, such as a work of art in itself in addition to any functional considerations; as a focal point for a novel or film; as a metaphor in song or poetry; as the subject of a painting or photograph; or as a home for other works of art, such as sculptures.
Image credits: Chesnot #7 Pablo Picasso (October 25, 1881 — April 8, 1973) Pablo Picasso was a Spanish artist known as one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.
An example of mutesaki tokyō using six brackets. Tokyō (斗栱・斗拱, more often 斗きょう) [note 1] (also called kumimono (組物) or masugumi (斗組)) is a system of supporting blocks (斗 or 大斗, masu or daito, lit. block or big block) and brackets (肘木, hijiki, lit. elbow wood) supporting the eaves of a Japanese building, usually part of a Buddhist temple or Shinto shrine. [1]