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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. [1] The design is well-suited for construction atop elevated piers, or in areas of unstable soils where anchorages would be difficult to construct.
The eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge was a construction project to replace a seismically unsound portion of the Bay Bridge with a new self-anchored suspension bridge (SAS) and a pair of viaducts. The bridge is in the U.S. state of California and crosses the San Francisco Bay between Yerba Buena Island and Oakland.
Steel bridges in the world, and other bridge statistics, The Swedish Institute of Steel Construction, March 2003 (out of date) Virola, Eur Ing Juhani, Two Millennia - Two Long-Span Suspension Bridges , Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, ATSE Focus No 124, November/December 2002 (revised information up to date as of 2005)
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A Key System interurban crossing the bridge. Construction of the Bridge Railway began on November 29, 1937, with the laying of the first ties. [67] The first train was run across the Bay Bridge on September 23, 1938, a test run utilizing a Key System train consisting of two articulated units with California Governor Frank Merriam at the ...
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