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Determining the difference between US Bailey Bridge, UK Bailey Bridge, Mabey Compact 100 and Acrow 300

Background The Bailey Bridge panel bridge system has been around since WWII. It has been credited as being one of the top 3 technological advancements that allowed the allies to win the war. After the war, the surplus of Bailey Bridge parts were…
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Bridge terminology - railing-like parapet

If a bridge has a parapet that is nota fully solid block and resembles railings with posts, as the following image What is this type of parapet called? What are the top, bottom, post, and hole of the railing-like structure called? Thanks!
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Did this artist take some licence with the Royal Albert Bridge - or has its appearance changed?

Here is how this artist rendered Brunel's Saltash Bridge: Here is how it appears today. Did the appearance change, or was some artistic licence taken in the painting? My question is: Did this artist take some licence with the Royal Albert Bridge…
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Can ice jam in river destroy a stone bridge?

In a fiction story I am currently writing, I have this situation. It's early spring, and a river in a mountainous region has just broken up the ice, and moves it downstream. Naturally, ice jams are forming along the way. Two characters, the main one…
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Collapse of the Fern Hollow bridge

I'm a high school student who is trying to investigate the forces that keep a bridge from collapsing - specifically the Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh that collapsed a few months ago. We estimated the mass of the bridge to be 6,488,185 kilograms…
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how to calculate the best possible equation of a parabola to hold the most point load

Hi in my engineering class we are currently making bridges and our group decided to make a parabolic bridge that will hopefully support 600 newtons (point load). the rules are that the bridge must span 0.4 meters (40 cm) and can be held together by…
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Why do these piers have a height miss-match?

I found this image of 2 piers of a Grider bridge with varying height. By any change could this be part of the design? The bridge is supposed to be a flyover for traffic decongestion.
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Is the Crimean Bridge in danger of collapsing?

Some sources point to difficulties which may destroy the bridge, so the Wikipedia article on the Crimean Bridge e.g. has: "The geology of the Kerch Strait is difficult: it has a tectonic fault, and the bedrock is covered by a 60 m (197 ft) layer of…
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