Gilson Bridges review
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| BEAM – | An individual piece of a bridge that goes from one section to another.Also called members.
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| MEMBER – | An individual piece of a bridge that goes from one section to another. Also called beams.
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| DECK – | The roadway portion of a bridge that directly supports vehicles, people and everything that might use it, travel on.
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| DEAD LOAD – | The weight of the bridge itself.
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| LIVE LOAD – | the weight of anything on the bridge that adds stress; cars people trucks. Also includes environmental load.
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| ENVIRONMENTAL LOAD - | wind, water, temperature and/or earthquakes. Anything nature adds to the stress.
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| FATIGUE – | when bridge pieces become weak and could break (fail) from being used a lot.
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| PIER – | A vertical support or substructure unit that supports the spans of a multi-span superstructure at an intermediate location between its abutments.
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| SPAN – | The distance between piers, towers, or abutments.
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| STABLE – | The ability of a bridge to resist forces that can cause it to collapse.
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| SUBSTRUCTURE – | The parts of a bridge that are below the deck (roadway).
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| SUPERSTRUCTURE – | The parts of a bridge that are above the deck (roadway)..
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| TENSION – | A force that pulls or stretches.
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| TORSION – | A twisting force or action.
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| COMPRESSION – | inward pushing force
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| TRUSS – | A strong triangular pattern of bridge members allowing the bridge to be longer.
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