Modern bridges: secrets and tricks
Cables, arches, decks: see what keeps bridges standing, and what makes them sway.
What this quiz asks
- 1A cable-stayed bridge is mainly recognized by
- 2A bridge's deck is
- 3A very common material for long deck slabs on recent bridges
- 4The main role of expansion joints on a bridge
- 5In load calculations, "live loads" refers to
- 6The Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940) collapsed mainly because of
- 7Why do some bridge piers have a pointed nose facing upstream
- 8On recent bridges, structural health is often monitored using
- 9Under a load evenly spread across the span, the shape of a suspension bridge's main cable is close to a
- 10London's Millennium Footbridge was stabilized after its initial wobble mainly thanks to
