Architecture / Function / Transportation / Bridge

• alcantara: In Spanish building and archaeology, a bridge.
• bascule bridge: A bridge having a balancing section to form a drawbridge.
• bridge: A structure spanning a trench, ravine, river, or the like. 2. A gallery or platform that can be raised or lowered over a stage and is used by technicians and stagehands.
• bridge tower: A tower erected upon a bridge, commonly at one end, to serve as a defense, gate, memorial, or otherwise. A celebrated example is the fine Gothic tower at one end of the bridge at Prague.
• chin kang ch’iang: In Chinese masonry bridge construction, the abutment wall from which the arch of the bridge springs; usually submerged in water. 2. Any load-bearing wall.
• chou chu: In Chinese architecture, a stone abutment for a simple span bridge.
• clapper bridge: Crude bridge structure made of large slabs of stone.
• clapper-bridge: See bridge.
• drawbridge: A movable bridge; originally moved horizontally like a gangway.
• Palladian bridge: See bridge.
• passerelle: Literally, a footbridge.
• pont: In French, a bridge; sometimes, in combination, forming the proper name of an important bridge which is not connected with the geographical name of the place.
• ponte: In Italian, a bridge.
• suspension bridge: A bridge having a deck suspended from cables raised on towers and securely anchored to abutments at the ends.
• truss bridge: A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements usually forming triangular units. The connected elements (typically straight) may be stressed from tension, compression, or sometimes both in response to dynamic loads. Truss bridges are one of the oldest types of modern bridges. The basic types of truss bridges shown in this article have simple designs which could be easily analyzed by 19th and early 20th-century engineers. A truss bridge is economical to construct because it uses materials efficiently.