The following
outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to bridges:
Bridges – a structure built to span physical obstacles without closing the way underneath such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle.
What type of thing is a bridge?
Bridges can be described as all of the following:
A
structure – An arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized.
A
thoroughfare – A road connecting one location to another.
Bascule bridge – a drawbridge hinged on pins with a counterweight to facilitate raising ; road or rail
Rolling bascule bridge – an unhinged drawbridge lifted by the rolling of a large gear segment along a horizontal
rack
Folding bridge – a drawbridge with multiple sections that collapse together horizontally
Curling bridge – a drawbridge with transverse divisions between multiple sections that curl vertically
Fan Bridge - a drawbridge with longitudinal divisions between multiple bascule sections that rise to various angles of elevation, forming a fan arrangement.
Vertical-lift bridge – the bridge deck is lifted by counterweighted cables mounted on towers ; road or rail
Table bridge – a lift bridge with the lifting mechanism mounted underneath it
Retractable bridge (Thrust bridge) – the bridge deck is retracted to one side
Submersible bridge – also called a ducking bridge, the bridge deck is lowered into the water
Tilt bridge – the bridge deck, which is curved and pivoted at each end, is lifted at an angle
Swing bridge – the bridge deck rotates around a fixed point, usually at the centre, but may resemble a gate in its operation ; road or rail
Bending The behavior of a slender structural element subjected to an external load applied perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of the element.
Compression (physics) The application of balanced inward ("pushing") forces to different points on a material or structure, that is, forces with no net sum or torque directed so as to reduce its size in one or more directions.
Shear stress The component of stress coplanar with a material cross section.
Span (engineering) The distance between two intermediate supports for a structure.
Tension (physics) The pulling force transmitted axially by the means of a string, cable, chain, or similar one-dimensional continuous object, or by each end of a rod, truss member, or similar three-dimensional object; tension might also be described as the action-reaction pair of forces acting at each end of said elements.
The following
outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to bridges:
Bridges – a structure built to span physical obstacles without closing the way underneath such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle.
What type of thing is a bridge?
Bridges can be described as all of the following:
A
structure – An arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized.
A
thoroughfare – A road connecting one location to another.
Bascule bridge – a drawbridge hinged on pins with a counterweight to facilitate raising ; road or rail
Rolling bascule bridge – an unhinged drawbridge lifted by the rolling of a large gear segment along a horizontal
rack
Folding bridge – a drawbridge with multiple sections that collapse together horizontally
Curling bridge – a drawbridge with transverse divisions between multiple sections that curl vertically
Fan Bridge - a drawbridge with longitudinal divisions between multiple bascule sections that rise to various angles of elevation, forming a fan arrangement.
Vertical-lift bridge – the bridge deck is lifted by counterweighted cables mounted on towers ; road or rail
Table bridge – a lift bridge with the lifting mechanism mounted underneath it
Retractable bridge (Thrust bridge) – the bridge deck is retracted to one side
Submersible bridge – also called a ducking bridge, the bridge deck is lowered into the water
Tilt bridge – the bridge deck, which is curved and pivoted at each end, is lifted at an angle
Swing bridge – the bridge deck rotates around a fixed point, usually at the centre, but may resemble a gate in its operation ; road or rail
Bending The behavior of a slender structural element subjected to an external load applied perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of the element.
Compression (physics) The application of balanced inward ("pushing") forces to different points on a material or structure, that is, forces with no net sum or torque directed so as to reduce its size in one or more directions.
Shear stress The component of stress coplanar with a material cross section.
Span (engineering) The distance between two intermediate supports for a structure.
Tension (physics) The pulling force transmitted axially by the means of a string, cable, chain, or similar one-dimensional continuous object, or by each end of a rod, truss member, or similar three-dimensional object; tension might also be described as the action-reaction pair of forces acting at each end of said elements.