Analyse * Suspension bridge – they are likely to be used to span a wide expanse of water I find it appropriate for it to be built in this scenario because it is not possible to build a beam bridge * Cable stayed bridge- this is a versatile bridge because it can be suitable for short and long spans 1. The community of drakensburg has been struggling with a problem of primary kids and residencies having trouble to cross to the other side of the river to go to school therefore the municipality
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The collapse of the Tacoma Narrow Bridge was a disaster back in the 1940 that is still known to many today. Many physicists have attributed the collapse of the bridge to forced resonance of the mechanical oscillator – where the wind has provided a source of periodic frequency that has tallied the natural frequency of the bridge. (Scanlan, 1990) In fact, there were multiple arguments that have led physicists to conclude that the tragedy was a result of resonance. Although this reasoning has existed
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Pratt Truss Bridge Research Paper The Pratt Truss bridge was a very unique bridge. This particular truss bridge happens to have been an all wooden truss bridge when it was first built in 1844. This truss bridge has very unique features. This truss bridge is very popular and was yet the most important truss bridge because of it's amazing transformation. This bridge is up to hundreds of feet off the ground. The Pratt Truss Bridge was made was by Thomas and Caleb Pratt in 1844. It was a popular
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This year in middle school technology we learned how to build truss bridges. A truss bridge is a bridge in which the loads are supported by trusses. We learned what the strongest bridge shape would be. We also learned how tension and compression strength affected the amount of weight our bridge would hold. In order to build our truss bridges first we had to draw a blueprint of the top, bottom, and side view of the bridge. Next, we put a piece of wax paper over the paper. After that lied the balsa
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a treetop, but not from ground level. However, Birch Hill Road, elevation 370 feet, does offer a glimpse of Mt. Wachusett, twenty miles to the northwest. Bridges can offer vistas. White Pond Road over the Assabet River, on the Stow/Maynard border, offers good views up and down river – albeit less than a mile’s length combined. The bridge is 120-feet in length with a surface 10-feet above the water. Parking is not permitted, but there are places along the shoulder to pull over and briefly leave
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the Bailey bridge and how it impacted the World War II. In doing so, the research provides evidence to support the claim that the bridge design was a very effective use of technological engineering. While the main purpose was to help militant troops transport their machinery, the bridge still serves as a useful tool for many other natural disasters. The Bailey bridge During World War II, heavy machinery was used to transport from one location to another. The bridges could not withstand
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#2 Churchville Road Bridge The Churchville Road Bridge is a Warren Pony truss bridge that is located in Brampton, Ontario. This bridge is a Warren truss bridge because it has equilateral triangles which spreads out the loads on the bridge. It was first constructed in 1911 then again in 1999 to stay stable for cars. It is used for transporting people across the Credit River which flows near Orangeville into Lake Ontario. The bridge cost about 2,400 dollars and its materials are prestressed concrete
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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
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BRIDGES A bridge is a structure providing passage over an obstacle without closing the way beneath. The required passage may be for a road, a railway, pedestrians, a canal or a pipeline. The obstacle to be crossed may by a river, a road, railway or a valley. History The first bridges were made by nature itself—as simple as a log fallen across a stream or stones in a river. The first bridges made by humans were probably spans of cut wooden logs or planks and eventually stones, using
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From The Bridge’. How does it create dramatic tension for the audience? ‘A View from the Bridge’ is set in 1950s America in an Italian-American neighbourhood under the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. Brooklyn is a very poor area. It is a corrupt society in which laws are not obeyed and many people have a low social status. The vast majority of Brooklyn’s population was Sicilian. Brooklyn is described by Alfieri, the narrator, as the slum that faces the bay on the seaward side of Brooklyn Bridge. To the
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