Bridges and Viaducts
A bridge or a viaduct is a structure built to span a physical obstacle such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over that very obstacle.
Most Important Structures in this Category
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| # | Name | Country | main span |
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| 1 |
Akashi Kaikyo Bridge
|
Japan | 1991 m |
| 2 |
Xihoumen Bridge
|
China | 1650 m |
| 3 |
Great Belt East Bridge
|
Denmark | 1624 m |
| 4 |
Yi Sun-Sin Bridge
|
South Korea | 1545 m |
| 5 |
Nan Cha Bridge
|
China | 1490 m |
| 6 |
Jiangyin Yangtze River Bridge
|
China | 1385 m |
| 7 |
Tsing Ma Bridge
|
China | 1377 m |
| 8 |
Verrazano Narrows Bridge
|
USA | 1298.4500 m |
| 9 |
Golden Gate Bridge
|
USA | 1280 m |
| 10 |
Höga Kusten Bridge
|
Sweden | 1210 m |
Note: there are too many entries in this category and all its subcategories combined. To obtain a list of structures please go through one of the subcategories.
More Information
Subcategories
Suspension bridges
- Chain suspension bridges
- Mono-cable suspension bridges
- Multi-span suspension bridges
- Self-anchored suspension bridges
- Simple (primitive) suspension bridges
- Single-span suspension bridges
- Single-tower suspension bridges
- Suspension bridges with cable-stays
- Suspension bridges with diagonal hangers
- Underspanned suspension bridges
Truss bridges
- Allan truss bridges
- Bailey bridges
- Baltimore truss bridges
- Bollmann truss bridges
- Bowstring-arch-truss bridges
- Brown truss bridges
- Burr arch type truss bridges
- Callender-Hamilton bridges
- Cantilever truss bridges
- Continuous truss bridges
- Dare type truss bridges
- DeBurgh type truss bridges
- Deck truss bridges
- Fink type truss bridges
- Half-through truss bridges
- Haupt type truss bridges
- Howe type truss bridges
- K-truss bridges
- Kingpost truss bridges
- Lattice truss bridges
- Lenticular bridges
- Long type truss bridges
- Paddleford type truss bridges
- Parker type truss bridges
- Pennsylvania (Petit) truss bridges
- Pony truss bridges
- Pratt type truss bridges
- Schwedler truss bridges
- Smith type truss bridges
- Stearns truss bridges
- Thacher type truss bridges
- Through truss bridges
- Town lattice truss bridges
- Truesdell type truss bridges
- Truss-leg bedstead bridges
- Vierendeel truss bridges
- Waddell "A" truss bridges
- Warren type truss bridges
- Whipple type truss bridges
Description
There currently is no long description, though one is being prepared.
Literature
- Technische Möglichkeiten der Probebelastung von Massivbrücken, in "Bautechnik", February 2012, n. 2 v. 89
- Brückenbau, Deutsches Museum, Munich (Germany), ISBN 394039615X, 2010
- Brücken in Ungarn, Közlekedésfejlesztési Koordinációs Központ, Budapest (Hungary), ISBN 9638849525, 2007
- Brücken, Klartext Verlag, Essen (Germany), 2012
- Bridge Architecture + Design (1st edition), Braun Publishing AG, Salenstein (Switzerland), ISBN 3037680253, 2010
- Gedanken zum heutigen Brückenbau, in "Bautechnik", February 2012, n. 2 v. 89
