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Bridge Engineering: Types and Classifications

Bridges can be classified in several ways: 1. By their structure/form, including slab, beam, truss, arch, and cable-stayed bridges. 2. By their material, including timber, concrete, stone, steel, and composite bridges. 3. By their length and load-bearing capacity, ranging from small culverts to major bridges over 120 meters long. 4. By their design in relation to obstacles, like high-level bridges over floodplains or movable bridges for water navigation.

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Bridge Engineering: Types and Classifications

Bridges can be classified in several ways: 1. By their structure/form, including slab, beam, truss, arch, and cable-stayed bridges. 2. By their material, including timber, concrete, stone, steel, and composite bridges. 3. By their length and load-bearing capacity, ranging from small culverts to major bridges over 120 meters long. 4. By their design in relation to obstacles, like high-level bridges over floodplains or movable bridges for water navigation.

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Bridge Engineering

Purpose of bridgeIRC:5-1998
(sec-I)-cls101)
• A bridge is a structure providing passage over
an obstacle without closing the way beneath.
• The required passage may be for a road, a
railway, pedestrians, a canal or a pipeline.
• The obstacle to be crossed may be a river, a
road, railway or a valley.
Component of Bridge Structures
[Link] of Bridges
(According to form (or) type of
superstructures)
•Slab bridge
•Beam bridge
•Truss bridge
•Arch bridge
•Cable stayed (or )suspended bridge
[Link] of bridges
(According to material of
construction of superstructure)
•Timber bridge
•Concrete bridge
•Stone bridge
•R.C.C bridge
•Steel bridge
•P.C.C bridge
•Composite bridge
•Aluminum bridge
[Link] of bridges
(According to inter-span relationship)
•Simply supported bridge
•Cantilever bridge
•Continuous bridge
[Link] of bridges
(According to the position of the bridge
floor relative to superstructures)

•Deck through bridge


•Half through or suspension bridge
[Link] of bridges
(According to method of connection
of different part of superstructures)

•Pinned connection bridge


•Riveted connection bridge
•Welded connection bridge
[Link] of bridges
(According to length of bridge)
•Culvert bridge(less than 6 m)
•Minor bridge(less than 6 m-60m)
•Major bridge(more than 60 m)
•Long span bridge(more than 120 m)
[Link] of bridges
(According to degree of redundancy)

•Statically determined bridge


•Statically indetermined bridge
[Link] of bridges
(According to anticipated type of
service and duration of use)

•Temporary bridge
•Permanent bridge
[Link] of bridges
(According to function)
• Aqueduct bridge(canal over a river)
•Viaduct(road or railway over a valley or river)
•Pedestrian bridge
•Highway bridge
•Railway bridge
•Road-cum-rail or pipe line bridge
[Link] of bridges
(According to road level relative to the
highest flood level of the river below )

•Highlevel bridge
•Submersible bridge
[Link] of bridges
(According to clearance for navigation)
•High level bridge
•Movable -bascule bridge
•Movable -swing or transporter bridge
Steel Arch Bridge
Cable Stayed Bridge
Steel Truss Bridge
Stone masonry arch bridge
R.C.C Arch bridge
Slab and T beam Continuous span
bridge
ARCH BRIDGE
R.C.C Slab culvert
Cable stayed bridge
Cable stayed bridge
Cable stayed bridge
Pre-stressed concrete Box-girder
bridge
Slab bridge
Deck slab and T-Beam bridge

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