Movable Bridges in the Infrastructure
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Charles Birnstiel
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Improving Infrastructure Worldwide, Weimar, Germany, 19-21 September 2007 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Weimar 2007 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 446-447 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2007 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/weimar.2007.0637 | ||||
| Abstract: |
Movable bridges are important parts of the infrastructure of countries having harbors and inland waterways. Forms and features of major types of movable bridges are described including the operating machinery. Problems of inspection and rehabilitation are discussed as are new trends in design brought about by a greater emphasis on aesthestics. |
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| Keywords: |
architecture rehabilitation machinery infrastructure movable bridges bascule swing vertical lift
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