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Colorado Street Bridge, an example of a false skew arch. The strength of a regular arch (also known as a "square" or "right" arch) comes from the fact that the mass of the structure and its superincumbent load cause lines of force that are carried by the stones into the ground and the abutments without producing any tendency for the stones to slide with respect to one another.
The bridge has an unusually great skew angle of 63°, [note 2] requiring a large skew span of 42 feet (13 m) for a bridge with a relatively small clear span of only 18 feet (5.5 m). [10] As the bridge is in open countryside and the line is curved near this point, it is unclear why such a difficult and expensive bridge was chosen, rather than ...
Southdown Road Skew Bridge looking along the barrel. Note the substantial retaining wall to the left of the arch. The easiest way to visualise Boucher's concept for the ribbed skew arch is to consider a regular arch bridge that carries the railway at right angles across the road and then to slice it vertically at regular intervals along the axis of its barrel, the planes all being parallel ...
Abbots Langley railway bridge, also known as the bridge over Railway Terrace is a skew bridge carrying the West Coast Main Line over a road near Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, in Eastern England (just north-west of London). The angle of the bridge creates a 25-metre (82-foot) tunnel along the road. It was built in 1837 and is a Grade II listed ...
It may be quantified in terms of an angle (angular displacement) or a distance (linear displacement). A longitudinal deformation (in the direction of the axis) is called elongation . The deflection distance of a member under a load can be calculated by integrating the function that mathematically describes the slope of the deflected shape of ...
The bridge consists of three skew arches, each with a span of 30 feet (9 metres), standing on two rusticated pillars. It carries the railway 60 feet (18 metres) over the River Gelt in a deep but narrow gorge. The bridge has a skew angle of 27 degrees. It is built from rusticated red sandstone, with smoothed voussoirs and V-shaped joints.
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One type of angle block for use in a Howe truss bridge. Braces and counter-braces are held in place with angle blocks. [13] Angle blocks are triangular in cross-section [13] and should be the same height [13] and width as the parallel of the chord. [1] Angle blocks may be made of wood or iron, [13] although iron is usually used for permanent ...