Cantilever Bridge2

Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
You are on page 1of 11

The Cantilever Bridge

By: Lula, Perla, Jake, Alexis and Jacob

What is a Cantilever Bridge?


A Bridge made of 3 main
components:
2 cantilevers
suspended span
weighted ends

Types of design
For small footbridges, the cantilevers may be simple beams however large
cantilever bridges designed to handle road or rail traffic use trusses built from
structural steel, or box girders built from prestressed concrete.

Cantilever Truss

Box Griders (side view)

What are
Cantilevers?

Cantilevers are long projecting


beams or girders fixed at only
one end, used mainly in bridge
construction.
They are used a lot for a range
of things for example: canopies,
balconies, sidewalks outside the
trusses of bridges etc..

Benefits of a Cantilever
Bridge
cantilevers can be built with little to no disruption of what's underneath allowing boats and ships pass
through with ease.
The span can be greater than that of a simple beam, because a beam can be added to the cantilever
arms. Cantilever bridges are very common over roads. Because the beam is resting simply on the
arms, thermal expansion and ground movement are fairly simple to sustain. Cantilever arms are very
rigid, because of their depth.

Disadvantages of a
Cantilever Bridge
Like beams, they maintain their
shape by the opposition of large
tensile and compressive forces,
as well as shear, and are
therefore relatively massive.

The bridge is, even today, regarded as an engineering marvel.

It is 1.6 miles (2.5 km) in length, and the double track is elevated 151 ft
(46 m) above the water level at high tide.

It consists of two main spans of 1,710 ft (521.3 m), two side spans of 680
ft (207.3 m), and 15 approach spans of 168 ft (51.2 m).

Construction started in 1882 and finished in 1890, The bridge opened in 1890.

The Forth
Bridge

Components of a Cantilever
Bridge

How its
built
uses little to no falsework
suspended span can be built
somewhere else and fitted in
place

Bridge Failures
Quebec Bridge, Canada. 29 August 1907
Why: Collapsed during construction: design error, bridge unable to support own
weight 75 killed, 1 injured
Seongsu Bridge, South Korea. 21 October 1994
Why: structural failure, bad welding 32 killed, 17 injured

Why have cantilever bridges failed in


the
past?
Builders mistakes and being crashed into by boats.

You might also like