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A licensed engineer can help operators design a safe, appropriate timber bridge. Personnel from Virginia Tech have described in detail how to build a stringer bridge using standard bridge design procedures, for example, by placing timber stringers across the abutment, using a bent to support a trestle or timber frame. Their methods are quick ...
Falsework includes temporary support structures for formwork used to mold concrete [1] in the construction of buildings, bridges, and elevated roadways. The British Standards of practice for falsework, BS 5975:2008, defines falsework as "Any temporary structure used to support a permanent structure while it is not self-supporting."
William Howe was a construction contractor in Massachusetts when he patented the Howe truss design in 1840. [3] That same year, he established the Howe Bridge Works to build bridges using his design. [4] The first Howe truss ever built was a single-lane, 75-foot (23 m) long bridge in Connecticut carrying a road. [1]
In 1971 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the only bridge in the city of Albany so far to be listed individually. [1] A Syracuse-based builder copied Squire Whipple's original bowstring truss design, the patent for which had expired by the time of its construction.
Covered bridges made with stringers instead of traditional style trusses are considered non-authentic, although in some terms, a stringer construction is also a type of truss. Examples of truss construction on covered bridges include Howe, Town Lattice, Queen-post, King-post, Haupt, Burr, Brown and Pratt. Of the existing historic covered ...
Truss bridge for a single-track railway, converted to pedestrian use and pipeline support. In this example the truss is a group of triangular units supporting the bridge. Typical detail of a steel truss, which is considered as a revolute joint Historical detail of a steel truss with an actual revolute joint
The County Road 557–West Branch Escanaba River Bridge is 75 feet (23 m) in length with a roadway width of 30.1 feet (9.2 m) and a complete structure width of 35.5 feet (10.8 m). [2] The structure is a steel stringer bridge, constructed of rolled I-beams supported simply by straight-walled concrete abutments on each side of the river.
10,100 m (Jiashao Bridge, Zhejiang, China) Cable-stayed suspension bridge hybrid Cable-stayed bridge and Suspension bridge: 1,408 m (4,619 ft) Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, [2] Istanbul: Cantilever bridge: 549 m (Quebec bridge) 1042.6 m (Forth Bridge) Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge: Clapper bridge: Covered bridge: Girder bridge: Continuous ...