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The bridge is a three-span steel Warren Truss structure, set on concrete piers and abutments. Each span is about 136 feet (41 m) long, and the bridge has a total length of 412 feet (126 m). Its travel surface is 26 feet (7.9 m) wide, with a total structure width of 32 feet (9.8 m). [2]
The Warren truss is a prominent structural feature in hundreds of hastily constructed aircraft hangars in WW2. In the early parts of the war, the British and Canadian government formed an agreement known as the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan which used newly constructed airbases in Canada to train aircrew needed to sustain emerging air forces.
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The Knowlesville Lift Bridge is located on Knowlesville Road in Ridgeway, New York, and is a part of the New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal). The vertical-lift bridge is a Warren truss with a length of 145 feet (44 m) sitting on concrete abutments, and has an open grate deck.
The finished 1943–1960 bridge consists of thirteen steel Warren truss spans (with one of those being the 306-foot (93 m) vertical-lift chorded Warren truss main span) carried on twelve piers. [2] Total bridge length is 2,890 feet (880 m), including 441 feet (134 m) of concrete slab approach spans on the west end of the bridge.
The bridge is a contributing structure to the Phillipsdale Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] The bridge uses a double-intersection Warren truss design with vertical sub-struts, extending only half the height of the truss panels, that provide additional strength and rigidity. There is a single set of ...
Warren truss with verticals Mickles Bridge: 1880 2007-08-16, delisted 2014-05-27 Mickles Yell: Bowstring through truss: Middle Fork of the Little Red River Bridge ...
James Warren (1806–1908) was a British engineer who, around 1848 to 1907 (along with Willoughby Monzoni), patented the Warren-style truss bridge and girder design. This bridge design is mainly constructed by equilateral triangles which can carry both tension and compression.