Sentences with phrase «cable suspension bridge»

The city's commuters also have access to the beautiful Liberty Bridge, which is a cable suspension bridge that almost appears to be floating mid-air.

A cable suspension bridge leads to the far side of the river and to the stairs that climb to the uppermost falls.

Not exact matches

To monitor deterioration inside suspension bridge cables, Raimondo Betti of Columbia University and his collaborators are testing 40 sensors in cables in New York City's Manhattan Bbridge cables, Raimondo Betti of Columbia University and his collaborators are testing 40 sensors in cables in New York City's Manhattan BridgeBridge.

The design, called a cable - stay, is cheaper and faster to construct than a traditional suspension bridge for medium - length projects (such as those that span rivers).

The weight of the road deck in a cable - stayed bridge is balanced evenly on either side of a tower, rather than hanging straight down from taut lines like in a suspension.

In a suspension structure such as the Golden Gate Bridge primary cables are strung from tower to tower and secondary cables drop down from those to hold the roadbed in place.

Cable - stay is inadvisable for bridges with a main span longer than 915 meters because the towers would have to soar twice as high as the towers of a suspension bridge of the same length to string enough cables to hold the road deck in place.

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Via ferrata consist of steel rungs drilled and glued into the rock, suspension bridges, and steel cable bridges spanning chasms that can feel like tiptoeing a cross a thread of silk.

It consists of steel rungs and cable drilled into the rock, suspension bridges, and bridges that span heart thumping chasms.

Not just yet for how could we miss the Capilano suspension bridge and its treetop walk or the cable car ride to Grouse Mountain still covered in ice and snow?

Projects like the austere corrugated - metal Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1972), which the architect Bill Stern called «as honest a building as I've ever seen,» and the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis (1973), hung from curving cables like a suspension bridge, established him as an innovative interpreter of the high Modernist style.

There is also, of course, the tension between empiricism and scientific theory, as demonstrated often in engineering: English suspension bridge designers in the 19th century were generally empirical, and their bridges stood; French were highly scientific and theoretical, and their first bridges, tho elegant, almost all failed (turned out to be the way they anchored their cables)... and the regrettable tendency of scientists to think that, because they are authoritative in their own field, they are thereby authoritative in policy and social engineering...

The bulleted lines that run along the side of this template resemble the suspension cables that hold New York's iconic bridge.