Tacoma Narrows Bridge A lot of things can go wrong when building or designing a major building‚ plane‚ bridge‚ or even a road. Engineers face the challenges to overcome these flaws or problems everyday when they are trying to design structures. The primary causes of engineering disasters are usually: Human factors‚ design flaws‚ material failures‚ extreme conditions or environments‚ and combinations of these reasons put together. There are many things an engineer has to look for when designing
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Notorious Brooklyn Bridge When you hear the word bridge‚ I’m sure the first thing that comes to mind is connection. Yes‚ connection is such a vague word when we talk about a bridge but it blossoms in variety and definitions when we specify the Brooklyn Bridge. The Brooklyn Bridge is the first bridge built in New york City 1883. The first of many construction work that would build the well known juggernaut of a city that we have here today. Many people view the Brooklyn Bridge as a symbol of new
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This bridge was one of the bridges that we thought as a group that can hold the much weight because of its structures. At first it was really hard to figure out on how to build it but three minds always work better then one so as we figured out the best way to built it we would test it ourselves. The Pratt truss was first developed in 1844 under patent of Thomas and Caleb Pratt. Since the 1840s through the early twentieth century‚ the Pratt has diagonals in tension‚ verticals in compression‚ except
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Suspension Bridges A suspension bridge is a one where many cables are strung across two or more towers‚ which supports the majority of the bridge weight and force. The cables run from the towers to the anchorages. Suspension bridges have benefited our everyday lives since John A. Roebling perfected the suspension bridge design in 1845 and built the Allegheny Suspension Bridge in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania (Placzek). These bridges are better than previous bridges in many ways. Suspension bridges can span
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The Bridge Builder Horace King Horace king was born in 1807 in South Carolina. He was tri-racial‚ being Caucasian‚ African‚ and Indian. His father was a mulatto named Edmund King; his mother‚ Susan was the daughter of a full-blooded Catawba Indian and a black female slave. At an early age he learned his trade from his owner John Godwin. Many reference show that Horace was a well-liked‚ outgoing‚ enthusiastic man. From letters we have learned that his mother was also owned by John Godwin and that
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Signature Bridge The Yamuna Bridge at Wazirabad is an unsymmetrical cable-stayed bridge with a span of 251 meters and length of 675 meters. The bridge’s composite deck carries 8 lanes (4 in each direction). It is about 35 meter wide and is supported by lateral cables spaced at 13.5 meters interval. The height of the steel tower is approximately 150 meters. The area around the bridge will later be developed into a park and the Yamuna River will be widened to lake like dimensions. At the same time
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A Report on “A case study on Bi-Mechanism Bridge at Madhapar” A PROJECT REPORT On Project I Submitted by 1. Rushikesh J Dabasia (140850106011) 2. Ruchit M Dabasiya (140850106012) 3. Kiran K Hirani (140850106032) 4. Prakash V Hirani (140850106047) 5. Vikrant D Patel (140850106064) Team ID.:- 2827 In fulfilment for the award of the degree Of BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING HJD INSTITUTE OF TECHANICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH‚ KERA-KUTCH Gujarat
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The Beautiful Tower Bridge in England For the bridge of the same name in Sacramento‚ California‚ see Tower Bridge (California). Tower Bridge (built 1886–1894) is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London‚ over the River Thames. It is close to the Tower of London‚ from which it takes its name. It has become an iconic symbol of London. The bridge consists of two towers tied together at the upper level by means of two horizontal walkways‚ designed to withstand the horizontal forces exerted
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The Brooklyn Bridge (initially known as the "New York and Brooklyn Bridge") links the districts of Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City . It was built between 1870 and 1883 and‚ at the time of its inauguration‚ it was the largest suspension bridge in the world (1825 meters long‚ and the light between pillars is 486.3 meters)‚ a record of light until 1889 the Forth Bridge is built ‚ with a maximum light of 521 m. It was also the first suspended by steel cables . Since then‚ it has become one of
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John Roebling‚ the creative genius behind the Brooklyn Bridge project‚ had first envisioned it in 1852 after having witnessed the horrible delays caused by the East River choked with ice. However‚ because of suspicions among the public of whether a bridge that would have to be wide enough to allow boats to pass under it and strong enough to sustain the terrible winds and powerful currents of the river was possible‚ the project seemed unrealistic. The winter of 1866/1867‚ which was one of the worst
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