Sentence examples for center span of from inspiring English sources

The Akashi-Kaikyo bridge, which is the world's longest suspension bridge with a center span of 1990 m, was opened in April 1998.

Mr. Lindenthal's bridge would have crossed the Hudson River from West 57th Street to Weehawken, N.J., a 7,460-foot 7,460-footked structure with a center span of 3,240 feet, far longer than any span raised at the time.

Those facts alone would have been enough to draw a crowd as the center span of a new bridge, a sleek red steel spine nearly 190 feet long, was carefully fitted into place on Saturday.

A sectional model wind-tunnel test on the Tiger Gate Bridge, a suspension bridge with a steel box deck and a center span of 888 m, is carried out to confirm the numerical results.

The improvements are part of Amtrak's plan to spend about $100 million upgrading its facilities in New York City, from the gears that rotate the center span of the 122-year-old Spuyten Duyvil swing bridge to the wooden cross ties that brace the rails of Track 19.

A large section of the concrete roadway in the center span of the new Tacoma (Wash). Narrows bridge hurtled into Puget Sound, Nov. 07, 1940.

Also, a LVDT was placed on the side surface of the center span to measure the horizontal displacement.

At 11 a.m., hundreds of people watched from about three miles away at the Narragansett Bay Campus of the University of Rhode Island, gasping, clapping and snapping photographs as 75 pounds of explosives sent the center span, 1,100 feet of crisscrossing trusses, into the water below.

Initial cracking started at the bottom section of G2 at the center span under a load of 1400 kN.

Although initial transverse tension cracking occurred at the bottom section of G1 at the center span under a load of 1400 kN, the neutral axis location remained unchanged until G1 and G2 reached load of 2100 and 1900 kN, respectively.

The results show that the deflection of G1 at the center span was less than that of G2 due to the load being applied onto G2.