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A slide plate is a linear bearing that may be part of the expansion joints of bridges, high temperature horizontal ducts of water-tube boilers and other mechanical or structural engineering applications. In each case one plate is fixed and the other slides on top as expansion or contraction occurs.
The first passenger rail cars in North America to be equipped with retractable bridge plates were TriMet's (Portland, Oregon) Siemens SD660 LRVs, [2] the first of which were completed in 1996. [3] Earlier, in 1987, the newly opened SacRT light rail system used non-powered, station-platform-mounted bridge plates to bridge the gap between a high ...
Thousands of orthotropic deck bridges are in existence throughout the world. Despite the savings and advantages (up to 25% of total bridge mass can be saved by reducing deck weight, as the weight reductions extend to cables, towers, piers, anchorages, and so forth), the US has only about 60 such bridge decks in use as of late 2005.
Bridge plate may refer to: Bridge plate (marking), markings on military vehicles to indicate the weight; Bridge plate (mechanism), equipment used by some light rail vehicles to provide wheelchair access; A metal or wood plate making up part of the bridge on some stringed instruments.
Austin K2/Y ambulance with prominent bridge plate. Bridge Plates are markings used on Allied vehicles beginning in World War II that indicate the weight of the vehicle in tons as well as the weight classification of the vehicle. This was used to calculate whether a vehicle, or series of vehicles, could safely cross a bridge with a given rating.
A bridge collapsed near La Carlota, the Philippines, on August 1, local officials said, as three vehicles were crossing it.This footage, posted on Facebook by Jim Elisa Pieldad, shows the cars ...
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The Nagtahan Interchange, also known as the Nagtahan Flyover and the Mabini Flyover, is a three-level set of three intersecting flyovers in Manila, Philippines, which serves as the junction between Lacson Avenue, Nagtahan Street, Legarda Street, Magsaysay Boulevard, and Jose P. Laurel Street, as well as the nearby Mabini Bridge.