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The purpose of a suspension bridge is to carry traffic across a body of water without the use of too many legs. Let's say two cities are separated by a river. Naturally, the governments would want to build a bridge over the water, to connect the two cities more easily.
Then they realize that under the river, the terrain is very rough and deep. Instead of spending billions of dollars on leveling the terrain to accommodate the bridge legs, they decide to build one main vertical support on each side of the river. They have vertical cables (held by horizontal cables strung between the towers) supporting the bridge where there are no legs, thus eliminating the need for legs or the risk of bad support in the center of the bridge, already being the weakest.
What else can I help you with?
What do suspension bridges look like?
Suspension bridges look a little bit likecable-stayed bridges.
Where are cable stayed bridges found?
In suspension bridges
What were the very first types of bridges?
suspension bridges
Is the George Washington bridges one of the five suspension bridges?
yes
What country is NOT home to one of three longest suspension bridges in the world?
Egypt is not home to one of the three longest suspension bridges in the world.
Who designs suspension bridges?
Civil Engineers.
What is used to stabilize suspension bridges?
Cables .
How did the suspension bridge get its name?
Suspension bridges are held, or suspended, from cables above the roadway's surface. This contrasts with bridges whose roadways are supported from underneath.
What are the two types of suspension bridges found in the world?
Cantilever bridgesCable stayed bridges
What differentiates suspension bridges from normal bridges?
Suspension bridges are built to make use of tension, whereas most other types of bridges make use of compression to bear their load. Suspension bridges are usually designed with the deck suspended below a series of towers by cables. Other types of bridges are generally either designed with the deck being supported from below by pillars, or made up of an arch.
How much are suspension cables in suspension bridges allowed to stretch?
Strictly speaking, I do not know the answer
What are 2 kinds of suspension bridges?
Two common types of suspension bridges are the traditional suspension bridge and the self-anchored suspension bridge. Traditional suspension bridges, like the Golden Gate Bridge, rely on towers to support cables that carry the weight of the deck. In contrast, self-anchored suspension bridges, such as the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, use a design where the main cables are anchored to the bridge itself, allowing the structure to maintain stability without external anchoring points.
