arch bridge

Arch bridge

An arch bridge shaped as a curved arch is a bridge with abutments at each end. Arch bridge abutments on either side of the bridge partially prevented through a horizontally divided by moving the weight of the work. Other more economical structures are typically the oldest existing arch bridge in Greece about 1300 BC sentence today.Possibly Arkadiko bridge is used, although a bridge (a bridge), by a series of arches can be made. Stone corbel arch bridge still used by the local population.  The well-preserved Greek Eleutherna corbel arch bridge is a triangle.  4th century BC Rhodes Building rests on an early voussoir arch.

Arches truth already known by the Etruscans and the Greeks, though, were the Romans - as with vault and dome -. The bridge arches to fully realize the potential of engineered compiled by the first Roman bridges  A list of Colin O'Connor a stand still and even vehicles used to carry is 330 Roman stone bridge for traffic, 34 bridges and 54 Roman Roman wooden bridges groove features.  is an Italian by Vittorio Galliazzo a more complete survey found 931 Roman (including former Yugoslavia) as many as 26 different countries, mostly stone bridge.

A number that is less than a semicircle is a curved arch of a bridge (such as a bridge Alconétar) Roman segmental arch bridges arch bridge though, were usually semicircular.  The advantages of segmental arch bridge allowed the amount of water being swept away in the flood and the bridge itself can be more light will prevent the bridge, under which it to move. In general, the Roman bridges of the same primary arch shaped rock (part) as size and shape. Romans PONT DU GARD single spans and thus the tract of Segovia as long aqueducts multiple arch, built both. For example, featured an early time after the flood holes bridge piers, room for Pons Fabricius (62 BC), the world's oldest major bridges still standing one.



Roman engineers were the first industrial revolution and the only ones he met Opus caementicium, to build bridges with concrete. Usually the Alcantara bridge, as was done with brick or ashlar.

Segmental arch bridge built by the Romans introduced bridges. for more than a millennium bridge an unusually flat profile is unsurpassed Southwestern Turkey 330 meter long bridge-to-height ratio Limyra 5.3 with an average duration of 26 segmental arches features. Trajan's bridge over the Danube (up to 40 m high concrete piers) open-spandrel segmental arches made of wood featured. The longest existing Roman bridge Puente Romano in Merida is 790 meters long while, both overall and in terms of individual span length for a thousand years was to be the longest arch bridge. Featuring a pointed arch bridge in Cappadocia Karamagara late Roman bridge may represent the earliest surviving.


Devil's Bridge, TROPIC, France (1341)
In medieval Europe, the bridge builders of bridges, piers finely chop the barrel and low-rise span ratio improved by using Roman structures. Gothic pointed arches emphasize reducing the background, introduction, and spans eccentric Puente del Diablo (1282) were added as well.

In the 14th century saw the building of the bridge to reach new heights. Previously unheard of in the history of the arch masonry construction period of 40 meters lengthes ,, now Spain (Puente de San Martin), Italy (Castelvecchio Bridge) and France (Devil's Bridge and the Grand Pont) in places as diverse as the arch I came up with, as well as different types of semi-circular pointed arches and segmental. Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge, 15th century, destroyed, evening match length 72 m intervals, Featured 1796.


Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy (1345)
With aesthetical appeal of such acclaimed segmental arch bridge Ponte Vecchio in Florence (1345) combined sound engineering (1-to-height ratio of 5.3 over the period) as constructions. Renaissance Ponte Santa Trinita (1569) three beautiful arches of the oldest in the formation of elliptical arch bridge. More effectively on the background of a pile of wood was founded, in part, based on the smash hit obliquely to visit: Venice Rialto bridge structures such as low growing and (1-to-height ratio of 6.4 times), Nuremberg Fleischbrücke in which the mass of the abutments, the emphasis needs.


Richmond Bridge, the oldest operational Bridge in Australia (1825)
(With iron brackets buttressed) spandrel arches used in a 1: China, the oldest existing arch bridge span a 5.2-to-peak ratio for the 605 CE Zhaozhou Bridge is. Zhaozhou Bridge, 167 feet (51 meters) and 123 feet (37 m) length, with flood waters, allowing the passage of a large, open-spandrel stone segmental world's first fully-arch bridge.

In more modern times, stone and brick arches, Thomas Telford, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and civil engineers, including John Rennie, by continuing to build. A leading pioneer of little piers, modified calculation methods and span-to-height ratio of abnormal genes used for Rodolphe Perronet, said. Thus, cast iron, steel and concrete as different materials, have been increasingly used in the construction of arch bridges.