Well with a beam it allows the bridge to support the bridge
water
Lake Ponchartrain Causeway
A beam that will not flex or bend - eg an I beam.
Along with motor vehicles the PATCO High Speed Line Commuter Train traverses this historic cable suspension bridge.
The different between suspension bridge and beam bridge are beam bridge are for short distance but suspension bridge for long distance. Beam bridge are used for highway passes and suspension bridge for wide waterway passes.
Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge is the longest beam bridge in the world and is approx 164.8 kilometres long.
beam and tunnel
An example of a beam bridge is Chesapeake Bay bridge-tunnel Site: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/bridge/index.html
beam bridge
Well with a beam it allows the bridge to support the bridge
bottom of the beam
beam
The first beam bridge was built in America
The Banpo Bridge is a girder bridge.
Arch bridge: the span beam of bridge is the shape of an arch & the load is diverted in compressive method. Beam bridge: the shape of beam span is of simply supported or continuous. here the load is diverted through bending compression method.
beam bridge