PrincetonX: CEE262.1x The Art of Structural Engineering: Bridges

Other interesting facts: Inspiration for the Valtschielbach bridge.

Other interesting facts: This bridge was controversial at the time it was built, because it rose above the tallest building in Seville, the Cathedral of Seville.

Other interesting facts: Built for the 1992 Universal Exposition (Expo) in Seville, Spain.

Other interesting facts: At the time of completion, it was the world's longest-spanning arch bridge.

Other interesting facts: This bridge was designed to save iron (efficiency), to improve the principles of bridge construction (economy), and to improve the external appearance of iron bridges (elegance). It was taken down after 90 years because it was hard to maintain.

Other interesting facts: Designed to be a suspension bridge but ended up being a tubular form. Closed form, aesthetically unexpressive.

Other interesting facts: Known as the “dancing bridge” because it moved a little with the wind. It was modified after 1940, when the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was built.

Other interesting facts: The towers of the bridge, when completed, looked like skyscrapers on the Brooklyn and Manhattan skylines. The bridge was completed by John Roebling’s son, Washington Roebling. When he was paralyzed, his wife Emily Roebling took over on-site.

Other interesting facts: : First iron bridge, copied after wood arches. Half-engineered, half-designed.

Other interesting facts: This bridge is right next to the Nanin Bridge. It was built before Menn became a professor at ETH Zurich.

Other interesting facts: This bridge is an example of the Bilbao effect. It was very expensive to build, yet hardly used.

Other interesting facts: This bridge was the inspiration for Menn’s Felsenau bridge (Menn was on the jury of the competition in which the Chillon Viaduct was presented.)

Other interesting facts: One of Menn’s earliest bridges.

Other interesting facts: Located on the road that leads to the highest village in Europe.

Other interesting facts: Oldest suspension bridge in the U.S. still in use today.

Other interesting facts: Held the record of longest cable-stayed bridge at the time it was built.

Other interesting facts: 3-hinged arch, shaped cross walls.

Other interesting facts: Double columns, hollow box walls, more open space visually.

Other interesting facts: Longest spanning bridge in the world at the time of its completion.

Other interesting facts: Surpassed Felsenau as the longest-spanning bridge in Switzerland. Has an innovative design with its balanced cantilever contruction, and by being a cable-stay bridge embedded in concrete.

Other interesting facts: This bridge is straight, not curved. Maillart was unhappy with the aesthetics, and thought it looked like it sagged.

Other interesting facts: It was the longest spanning bridge when completed, and represented a huge leap in span. Almost doubled the existing record, held by the Benjamin Franklin Bridge.

Other interesting facts: The architect Irving Morrow chose the color, known as "international orange", as well as the art deco style of the bridge.

Other interesting facts: Ammann's first bridge (in collaboration with Lindenthal).

Other interesting facts: First bridge designed of iron. Semi-circular form.

Other interesting facts: Demolished in 1993 and replaced with a prestressed concrete bridge.

Other interesting facts: Longest span in Spain.

Other interesting facts: Almost straight lines, slight curve.

Other interesting facts: An imitation of the Salginatobel and Tavanasa bridges designed by Robert Maillart.

Other interesting facts: Inexpensive to build and very fitted to the environment.

Other interesting facts: Part of the Great Western Railway project.

Other interesting facts: Despite Telford’s precautions in designing this bridge with both arches and suspenders, and later adding bracing, part of the roadway was torn loose in 1839 by gale-force winds.

Other interesting facts: Integrated in the landscape, matches the typical white Andalusia houses.

Other interesting facts: Despite its similarity to the Craigellachie Bridge, an improvement in the orientation of the diagonal members in the spandrels of the bridge allows the load to be more evenly distributed.

Other interesting facts: Right next to the Cascella Bridge. It was the longest bridge in Europe at the time it was built. Completed before Menn became a professor at ETH Zurich.

Other interesting facts: This bridge established Roebling's reputation as a master builder of suspension bridges.

Other interesting facts: Short-span arches. Longest and highest aqueduct in Britain.

Other interesting facts: The distance between the cross walls is four times larger than those of the Klosters bridge. Polygonal arch (string diagram), hollow box deck, very narrow bridge.

Other interesting facts: Smooth arch, concrete papapet, famous Maillart bridge. Named an international historic civil engineering landmark in 1991.

Other interesting facts: Lenticular truss, ambiguous form. Extension of the Great Western Railway project.

Other interesting facts: Curved bridge that goes from one mountain to another. Hollow box. This innovative bridge has no arch, because Menn realized that prestressing could replace the arch entirely.

Other interesting facts: One of the first cable-stayed bridges on an inclined mass.

Other interesting facts: Complex design, considered one of Maillart's masterpieces.

Other interesting facts: Example of a narrow, thin-deck bridge that is built to avoid and withstand fluttering caused by the wind.

Other interesting facts: Maillart's first major bridge, designed to look like a Renaissance bridge.

Other interesting facts: Created as part of Princeton University’s Natural Sciences neighborhood, the bridge’s “X” shape symbolizes the cross-disciplinary collaborations that are central to scientific research and teaching.

Other interesting facts: Slender, curved, and adapted to temperature changes.

Other interesting facts: Very narrow, also a "dancing bridge". It collapsed in November 1940, and has since been rebuilt.

Other interesting facts: Maillart lost the competition to redesign this bridge after it was destroyed in an avalanche in 1927.

Other interesting facts: One of Maillart's first deck-stiffened arches.

Other interesting facts: Deck designed for wind, resists twisting.

Other interesting facts: Three-hinged arch, cross walls shaped in an X.

Other interesting facts: Pedestrian bridge, used new materials.

Other interesting facts: Integrated into the landscape.

Other interesting facts: At the time, this was Menn's only bridge in the US. He later built one over Washington Road at Princeton University.

Other interesting facts: Revolutionary design: first hollow box ever built. Considered radical and ugly. The high-art world prevented Maillart from building another bridge like this one for 25 years.