Padma Bridge 1 Padma Bridge Padma Multipurpose Bridge Carries Crosses Locale Maintained by Designer Design Material Total length Width Motor vehicles‚ Railway Padma River Louhajong‚ Munshiganj to Shariatpur and Madaripur Bangladesh Bridge Authority Maunsell AECOM Truss bridge Steel 6‚150 m (20‚180 ft) 21.1 m (69 ft) Bangladesh Construction begin expected in 2013 Construction end Coordinates expected in 2016 23°25′21″N 90°18′35″E The Padma Bridge is a multipurpose road-rail bridge across
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8:50am Black History Assignment Ruby Bridges Born on September 8‚ 1954‚ in Tylertown‚ Mississippi‚ Ruby Bridges was 6 when she became the first African-American child to integrate a white Southern elementary school‚ having to be escorted to class by her mother and U.S. marshals due to violent mobs. Bridges’ bravery paved the way for continued Civil Rights action and she’s shared her story with future generations in educational forums. Ruby Nell Bridges was born on September 8‚ 1954‚ in Tylertown
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The Brooklyn Bridge The Brooklyn bridge in its days was the biggest‚ most famous bridge in the world‚ it had the most beautiful suspension bridges and the most dramatic testament yet to American technical ingenuity and daring. The bridge indicated that there was no place like New York‚ no place like American in the 19th century .The heroic history of the Brooklyn Bridge and its construction is well known‚ its position in the American life is remarkable ‚as is the infinitely unprecedented structure
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BANGLADESH ECONOMOY IF PADMA BRIDGE NOT ESTABLISH INTRODUCTION: The Padma Bridge is a multipurpose road raile bridge across the Padma river to be constructed in Bangladesh. When completed it will be the largest bridge in Bangladesh and the first fixed river crossing for road traffic. It will connect Louhajang‚ Munshiganj to Shariatpur and Madaripur‚ linking the south-west of the country‚ to northern and eastern regions. The project covers three districts — Munshiganj (Mawa point/North bank)‚ Shariatpur
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London Bridge The London Bridge is probably the most famous bridge ever built. After being in songs and being rebuilt a number of times the London Bridge is also one of the oldest bridges. The first London Bridge was built by Romans sometime after 43 AD and some of its wooden remains have been uncovered on the north side of the river. During its life the wooden structure was renewed several times‚ and it was probably to this earliest bridge that the nursery rhyme ‘London Bridge is falling
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Spaghetti Bridge Abstract For this assignment our task was to build as a group a spaghetti bridge with the objective of carrying the most weight as possible using only spaghetti and hot glue‚ meeting the specifications. The bridges will be loaded until they fall. After testing to destruction‚ the bridges loading capacity was 14.4kg‚ with an initial mas of 0.840kg. This gave a weight to strength ratio of 17.1 putting the group at 4th/8th position in class. From this it was learned the
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The Bridge of the Americas The Bridge of the Americas (Spanish: Puente de las Américas; originally known as the Thatcher Ferry Bridge) is a road bridge in Panama‚ which spans the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. Completed in 1962‚ at a cost of US$20 million‚ it was the only non-swinging bridge (there are two other bridges‚ one at the Miraflores locks and one at the Gatun locks) connecting the north and south American land masses until the opening of the Centennial Bridge in 2004. The bridge
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Zhaozhou Bridge The well-known Zhaozhou Bridge‚ also known as Anji Bridge and the Great Stone Bridge‚ was designed and built by a craftsman named Li Chun in the years 595-605 during the Sui Dynasty(A.D 581-618). The bridge is located in the southern part of Hebei Province in China and spans above the Xiao River. It is the world’s oldest and the most well-preserved open-spandrel stone segmental arch bridge. The Zhaozhou Bridge is not only a practical means of transportation but also illustrates
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------------------------------------------------- Brooklyn Bridge This essay introduces the Brooklyn Bridge. The Bridge is located in America over the East river; the nearest city to the bridge is New York and Manhattan‚ Brooklyn. After 60 years of political‚ financial and technical discussions to start the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge it was approved. The Bill to start construction was signed in 1869 by the New York Bridge company president‚ Ulysses S Grant. The cost of the original
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HSC ENGINEERING STUDIES CONSTRUCTION TASK TRUSS BRIDGE [pic] BY RICHY R. THURUTHIYIL CONTENTS Common types of Trusses 1- Warren Truss [pic] A warren truss consists of alternatively inverted equilateral triangles which are rigid. It is made up of horizontal members and equal
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