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Suspension (civil Engineering)
A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern examples of this type of bridge were built in the early 1800s. Simple suspension bridges, which lack vertical suspenders, have a long history in many mountainous parts of the world. Besides the bridge type most commonly called suspension bridges, covered in this article, there are other types of suspension bridges. The type covered here has cables suspended between towers, with vertical ''suspender cables'' that transfer the live and Structural load#Dead load, dead loads of the deck below, upon which traffic crosses. This arrangement allows the deck to be level or to arc upward for additional clearance. Like other suspension bridge types, this type often is constructed without the use of falsework. The suspension cables must be anchored at each end of the bridge, since any load applied to the bridge is transformed into tension in these main cabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 Çanakkale Bridge
The 1915 Çanakkale Bridge () is a road suspension bridge in the province of Çanakkale Province, Çanakkale in northwestern Turkey. Situated just south of the coastal towns of Lapseki and Gelibolu, the bridge spans the Dardanelles, about south of the Sea of Marmara. The bridge is the List of longest suspension bridge spans, longest suspension bridge in the world—with a main Span (engineering), span of , the bridge surpasses the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (1998) in Japan by . The bridge was officially opened by President of Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 18 March 2022 after roughly five years of construction. It is the centrepiece of the planned Otoyol 6, O-6 motorway, which will connect the Otoyol 3, O-3 and Otoyol 7, O-7 motorways in East Thrace to the Otoyol 5, O-5 motorway in Anatolia. The year "1915" in the official Turkish name honours an important Ottoman Empire, Ottoman victory in the Gallipoli campaign comprising an unsuccessful Triple Entente, Entente Naval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
