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Twin double-leaf bascules in potomac river bridge
Necessity of meeting interests of highway, waterway, and airway users is pointed out; same materials in similar fashion from abutment to abutment are employed because of emphasis on unity of structure; other architectural considerations; riveted plate-girders of high strength, low alloy steel are used in 4 bascule leaves carrying roadways over channel; concrete mix and placing sequence; operation of bascules; approach superstructures and piers.
Twin double-leaf bascules in potomac river bridge
Necessity of meeting interests of highway, waterway, and airway users is pointed out; same materials in similar fashion from abutment to abutment are employed because of emphasis on unity of structure; other architectural considerations; riveted plate-girders of high strength, low alloy steel are used in 4 bascule leaves carrying roadways over channel; concrete mix and placing sequence; operation of bascules; approach superstructures and piers.
Twin double-leaf bascules in potomac river bridge
Civ Eng (NY)
Duggan, J.M. (author)
1962
4 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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