cantilever bridge

British  

noun

1. a bridge having spans that are constructed as cantilevers and often a suspended span or spans, each end of which rests on one end of a cantilever span

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cantilever bridge

Grand Canyon West is home to the Hualapai Tribe and the Grand Canyon Skywalk, a horseshoe-shaped cantilever bridge with a glass walkway at Eagle Point near the Colorado River.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 27, 2021

But to preservationists, what’s left of the trams — as much a Kolkata institution as the universities the steel carriages trundle past, or the city’s cantilever bridge — must be saved.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

When it was opened on 4 March 1890 by the then Prince of Wales, the Forth Bridge was the longest cantilever bridge in the world and the first major crossing made entirely of steel.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2015

The 1.5 mile Forth rail bridge, the UK's first all-steel crossing, was the world's longest cantilever bridge when it opened in 1890, and among the engineering marvels of the globe.

From The Guardian ● May 28, 2012

The importance of the elastic behavior of a structure is forcibly illustrated by comparing the contract drawings for a great cantilever bridge which spans the East River with the expert reports on the same.

From Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design American Society of Civil Engineers, Transactions, Paper No. 1169, Volume LXX, Dec. 1910 by Edward Godfrey