cantilever span

Cantilever spans become too heavy if they were made longer.

At the time of completion, it had the longest cantilever span.

The new design was still for a bridge with a single long cantilever span, but a much more massive one.

It has 14 cantilever spans covering more than 760 metres.

There are pin connections between the two approach spans and the cantilever span.

As of late 2005, the bridge spans are the 19th-longest cantilever spans in the world.

Length of main cantilever span: 172.21 m (556 ft)

The bridge is 1,659 feet in length, is 283 feet above the river, and includes a 551 foot long cantilever span.

Some steel arch bridges (such as the Navajo Bridge) are built using pure cantilever spans from each side.

The use of cantilevered spans during the historic period, such as exhibited at this structure, is rare in North Dakota."

At the time of completion in 1901 the Alexandra Bridge was the fourth longest cantilever span in the world.

A simple cantilever span is formed by two cantilever arms extending from opposite sides of the obstacle to be crossed, meeting at the center.

Strauss' initial design proposal (two double cantilever spans linked by a central suspension segment) was unacceptable from a visual standpoint.

At either end of the bridge there are additional Warren truss spans which connect the cantilevered spans to the highway.

The first structure was completed in 1885 and consisted of a steel cantilever span that rested on three mortared sandstone block pillars.

The bronze of the cantilevered spans flashed fire in the sunlight, and at night, the black iron was silvered by the white moon, Solinari.

Both bridges are steel cantilever spans that were inducted onto the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

The seventy-one-year-old steel cantilever span narrows down to two lanes as it crosses a channel that connects the Gulf to the Mississippi.

This silver-gray structure swings across to Oakland via two suspension spans, a cantilever span, and a tunnel through Treasure Island.

The bridge rests on two concrete piers in the river, with the central arch between them, and cantilever spans extending to concrete abutments high on the riverbanks.

The Queensboro Bridge is a double cantilever bridge, as it has two cantilever spans, one over the channel on each side of Roosevelt Island.

On Sunday, February 11, 1968, a U.S. Navy training aircraft crashed into the cantilever span of the bridge, killing both reserve officers aboard.

Center Street ends and SR 25 turns northwest to cross the Columbia River on the Northport Bridge, a steel cantilever span built in 1951.

The main cantilever span was modeled on the similar Benjamin G. Humphreys Bridge which had been built downstream by Arkansas & Mississippi roughly two decades earlier.

Until it was surpassed by the Quebec Bridge in 1917, the span between Manhattan and Roosevelt Island was the longest cantilever span in North America.