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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 span girder bridge Integral bridge: Extradosed bridge: 1,920 m Arrah–Chhapra ...
Submersible bridge – also called a ducking bridge, the bridge deck is lowered into the water; Tilt bridge – the bridge deck, which is curved and pivoted at each end, is lifted at an angle; Swing bridge – the bridge deck rotates around a fixed point, usually at the centre, but may resemble a gate in its operation ; road or rail
Name Span Length Type Carries Crosses Opened Location State Ref. 1: Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge: 1,298 m (4,260 ft) 4,176 m (13,701 ft) Suspension 2 levels steel truss deck, steel pylons 7+6 lanes 370+1298+370
The Arkadiko Bridge is one of four Mycenaean corbel arch bridges part of a former network of roads, designed to accommodate chariots, between the fort of Tiryns and town of Epidauros in the Peloponnese, in southern Greece. Dating to the Greek Bronze Age (13th century BC), it is one of the oldest arch bridges still in existence and use.
Gien Bridge (Loiret, France) – Masonry piers, protected downstream here by backwaters. In masonry bridge piers, there is a resistant part and a filling part: [6] The periphery of the shafts over a certain thickness constitutes the resistant part, made of dressed stones in the angles and squared or even rough stones.
The oldest wooden bridge in Sweden, from 1737. Lidingöbron, 997 m. There was a 750-metre-long (2,460 ft) bridge there already 1802. Öland bridge, 6,072 m; Öresund Bridge, from Sweden to Denmark. 7,845 m (of which 5,300 m in Sweden. 490 m span) Tjörnbron Bridge, 664 m (366 m span) Uddevalla Bridge, 1,712 m (414 m span)
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Girder bridges have existed for millennia in a variety of forms depending on resources available. The oldest types of bridges are the beam, arch and swing bridges, and they are still built today. These types of bridges have been built by human beings since ancient times, with the initial design being much simpler than what we utilize today.