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2. Nicola, Kamloops and Similkameen Coal and Railway Company

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   Replaced by 5-metre (15 ft) timber deck bridge on concrete abutments in 1946. [64] 18.0: Nicola River: Pony truss. Replaced by 32-metre (106 ft) steel pony truss and 15-metre (50 ft) half deck plate girder span at unknown date. [64] 19.0: Manning Creek FSR crossing. [64] 19.7: Gordon Creek: 4-metre (13.5 ft) wall culvert span. Replaced by 5 ...

3. Linkspan - Wikipedia

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   Around fifty of this type of linkspan have been built. The design allowed flexibility for ship-owners and ports during the changeover from the old very restricting system. With the development of wider ship's ramps (up to 28 m or 92 ft), triple lane lower deck and two lane upper-deck accesses to vessels, the submerged tank type has been superseded.

4. Span (engineering) - Wikipedia

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   In engineering, span is the distance between two adjacent structural supports (e.g., two piers) of a structural member (e.g., a beam). Span is measured in the horizontal direction either between the faces of the supports (clear span) or between the centers of the bearing surfaces (effective span): [1] A span can be closed by a solid beam or by ...

5. List of longest cable-stayed bridge spans - Wikipedia

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   The definition of cable-stayed bridge deck length used here is: A continuous part of the bridge deck that is supported only by stay-cables and pylons, or are free spans. This means that columns supporting the side span as for example found in Pont de Normandie , excludes most of the side span decks from the cable-stayed deck length.

6. Timber roof truss - Wikipedia

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   Key: 1: queen posts, 2: tie beam, 3: straining beam, 4: principal rafters. A queen post truss has two principal rafters and two vertical queen posts . [ 5 ] The queen post truss extends the span, and combined with spliced joints in the longer members extends the useful span for trusses of these types.

7. Plate girder bridge - Wikipedia

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   In the deck-type bridge, a wood, steel or reinforced concrete bridge deck is supported on top of two or more plate girders, and may act compositely with them. In the case of railroad bridges, the railroad ties themselves may form the bridge deck, or the deck may support ballast on which the track is laid.