A tied arch ( or bow-string ) design was favoured, because the outward thrust imposed by an arch is contained by the tie; no abutments capable of resisting the thrust could be provided here.
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The bridge was manufactured to a tied arch or bowstring design in Chepstow by engineering firm Fairfield Mabey, and was lowered into place by the UK's biggest mobile crane, weighing 1, 200 tonnes.
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He had already built a bowstring or tied arch bridge at Windsor ( 1849 ) consisting of three triangular cross-section cellular arch ribs " strung " by wrought iron deck girders supported by vertical hangers from the arches.
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The bridge's main span was a tied arch with a suspended road deck, with two through-truss side spans, carrying two traffic lanes between Brady Street on the Pittsburgh side and South 22nd Street on the south side.
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The "'Daniel Carter Beard Bridge "'( also known colloquially as the "'Big Mac Bridge "'), is a yellow twin span steel tied arch bridge crossing the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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The resulting interchange was partially opened in April 1967 when I-10 was completed eastward from Paris Road to the Army Corps of Engineers, the cantilever truss bridge with tied arch-suspended span contained four vehicular lanes and allowed all marine traffic to pass underneath unimpeded.
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On 23 July 1981, Works Minister of Malaysia's Dato Seri Samy Vellu announced that Penang Bridge, Penang would be constructed using the cable-stayed concrete girder of the San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge instead of the steel-tied arch in the style of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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After the tanker " Franz Klasen " destroyed the vertical lift bridge on July 28, 1942, the U . S . Army Corps of Engineers constructed the present tied arch Chesapeake City Bridge and new approach roads to the bridge between 1946 and 1949 . US 213 was moved to the new Chesapeake City Bridge, and MD 537B was assigned to the bypassed portion of highway between the canal and county-maintained Hemphill Street, as well as the piece of Lock Street that connected with US 213.
