Article: Bridges. (brief history of materials used to make bridges and their designs; types of stress on bridges)

Article: Bridges.
Science Weekly;  November 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... called the deck. Bridges must be very strong and sturdy. A bridge not only has to ... s Golden Gate Bridge. DID YOU KNOW?? Some bridges are built on a row ... to use for each bridge they build. For centuries, bridges have been constructed ...

Article: BRIDGE
Young Students Learning Library;      700+ words ... ... armies. The covered bridge was one of the earliest types of wooden bridges built in Colonial ... the water. Famous Bridges The bridge at Avignon in southern ... LENGTH OF MAIN SPAN Bridge Finished Span ft ... Location Suspension bridges Akashi-Kaikyo ...

Article: Bridge inspectors come to Orange.
Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY);  August 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... most other kinds of bridges, are nonredundant ... Edwards, the DOT's bridge management engineer ... other eyes see the bridges. The New York State ... the New York State Bridge Authority make their ... s 50 deck-truss bridges -- the same design ... the Interstate 35W bridge that collapsed ...

Article: Bridge inspections can take hours or days: VDOT checks the ...
Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA);  August 3, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... theoretically, the bridge would fail," he ... are about 3,000 bridges and overpasses in ... the more prominent bridges in the New River Valley -- the U.S. 11 bridge over the South Fork ... longest interstate bridges over water in the ... While the southbound bridge received ratings ...

Article: Bridge workers' job is never done.
Post and Courier (Charleston, SC);  June 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... percent of its 9,168 bridges, according to a ... earlier this year. A bridge is deemed substandard ... Silas N. Pearman bridges doesn't engender ... keep up with the new bridge's maintenance needs ... crews to spend on one bridge without neglecting the other 1,100 bridges in the six-county ...

Article: Bridge effort in `holding pattern' as legal issue looms
Columbia Daily Tribune;  January 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Paula Shannon thinks the old rail bridge over the Missouri River in Boonville has ... breathtaking when you are standing out on the bridge in the middle of the river," she said ... Missouri." Shannon is the chair of the Katy Bridge Steering Committee, a group working to ...

Article: Bridges safe in Fox Valley, reports show
Courier News (Elgin, IL);  August 3, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... of Transportation bridge inspection records for bridges in the area spanning ... rehab their older bridges. In Batavia, the William J. Donovan Bridge spanning the Fox ... and the U.S. 30 bridge in Montgomery. All of those bridges scored 7s in their ...