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Heavy Girder Over Bridge The Heavy Girder Over Bridge (HGOB) provides a lower profile allowing easier crossing for heavy transporters and tankers on line of communication routes. The bridge is transported on 1 DROPS pallet of a 14 tonne truck. A Royal Engineers Section and a crane is used to construct the bridge.
This includes the girders themselves, diaphragms or cross-braces, and (if applicable) the truss or arch system. In a girder bridge this would include only the girders and the bracing system. The girders are the primary load support, while the bracing system both allows the girders to act together as a unit, and prevents the beams from toppling.
In a plate girder bridge, the plate girders are typically I-beams made up from separate structural steel plates (rather than rolled as a single cross-section), which are welded or, in older bridges, bolted or riveted together to form the vertical web and horizontal flanges of the beam. In some cases, the plate girders may be formed in a Z-shape ...
A Mabey Logistic Support Bridge, Tikrit, Iraq The Mabey Logistic Support Bridge (in the United States, the Mabey-Johnson Bridge) is a portable pre-fabricated truss bridge, designed for use by military engineering units to upgrade routes for heavier traffic, replace civilian bridges damaged by enemy action or floods etc., replace assault and general support bridges and to provide a long span ...
A 16-Bay with LRS Medium Girder Bridge across the Kazer River, Mosul, Iraq, 2003. An M60A3 main battle tank crosses a medium girder bridge during Exercise REFORGER '83 in Germany, 1983. The medium girder bridge (MGB) is a lightweight, man-portable bridge that can be assembled without help from heavy
Pages in category "Girder bridges in the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 276 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Live updates: The latest on the Baltimore bridge collapse More heavy equipment is expected at the scene in the coming weeks. That includes seven floating cranes, 10 tugs, nine barges, eight ...
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