Pontoon bridge, floating bridge, used primarily but not invariably for military purposes.
Over the following 30 years he recorded its progress downstream, tumbling over waterfalls, lingering in pools and lodging under bridges, floating semi-submerged along the River Dwyryd and into its tidal estuary (a journey documented in a delightful film at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at Kew). "Wooden Boulder" last surfaced briefly in May 2008 before disappearing into sea.
The applications of VLFS as floating piers, floating hotels, floating fuel storage facilities, floating stadia, floating bridges, floating airports, and even floating cities have triggered extensive research studies in the past two decades.
By day eight, I was seeing the wilderness give way to more signs of a greater settlement having once been here broken bridges, floating cars.
By day eight I was seeing the wilderness give way to more signs of a greater settlement having once been here – broken bridges, floating cars.
The construction of a suspension bridge with floating pylons or a submerged floating tunnel requires the installation of a mooring system.
Gripped suddenly by a fear that the bridge had floated away, he returned to the floating bridge.
The 110-year-old Willis Avenue Bridge was floated to a Jersey City junkyard last week where it is being dismantled to be sold for scrap.
A pontoon bridge was floated across the Santi Petri creek and a battalion sent across to establish a bridgehead prior to the arrival of the main force.
There are two types of floating bridge such as discrete-pontoon floating bridges and continuous-pontoon floating bridges.
At issue is whether the Puget Sound regional transportation agency can build light rail on the HOV express lanes of the Interstate 90 floating bridge over Lake Washington (yes, it floats and it sank once) in order to connect the job rich Eastside (Microsoft, Expedia, etc).
