From the truss bridges of the 1800s to patented designs such as the Golden Gate in 1936, bridge design has led to patents and new technologies.
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The council said the bridge's design and location make repair difficult, as does the extent of the damage.
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Investigators also are expected to scrutinize the bridge's design, Sumwalt said.
Authorities said the remaining section of the bridge has been examined and won't need replacing, raising questions over whether more failures could occur if the 58-year-old bridge's design isn't altered.
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Officials say some of these reservations have been addressed - the original plan to build it along the coastline was changed, and the bridge's design tweaked to make it run entirely over the sea.
Hyder Consulting, which has worked on Sydney Harbour Bridge and Tower Bridge in London, will design the station.
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James Walker, 54, from Bexley, south-east London, was inspired to design the game Bridge Up as he drove over the famous crossing one day.
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday they had found design flaws in the bridge's gusset plates, which helped tie the steel beams together.
Dorsey says he admires the bridge's utility and elegant design, which he called "this perfect intersection between art and engineering, " and believes software should work the same way.
He said he hoped the memorial garden beside the crossing, which commemorates the victims of the 2004 crash, would still have a place within the design for the new bridge.
In 1940 Donald Bailey of Britain's Royal Engineers used his Erector Set to design the portable Bailey Bridge, which spanned creeks and rivers and was hailed by Eisenhower as one of the three most important technological advancements of the war, along with radar and heavy bombers.
U5: After having been included in the heritage inventories of the various counties in which this tradition remains active, the design and practices of bridge building were included on the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage administered by the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture.
The inspiration behind the prize comes from the competition that led to Isambard Kingdom Brunel's design for the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
The resulting open-source hardware platforms bridge desktop and embedded development, allowing developers to design to their specification and collaborate with the open source community on creative new applications.
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Its "fracture-critical" design means that if any part fails the whole bridge could fail, experts said.
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"The bridge as it stands today bears little resemblance to its original design, " acknowledged Sharma.
In such homes, Apple TV will test whether the challenge to bridge the PC and TV has been due to lack of design, lack of content, lack of appropriate shelf space or, in Apple's worst case, lack of interest.
In the Archtriumph competition for ideas for new crossings on the river Seine, a design firm won third place for its conceptualisation of a trampoline bridge, which is obviously the most fun way to cross a body of water anywhere, ever.
The MacBook Pro line in early summer 2011 received new Sandy Bridge processors to accelerate proficiency with no aesthetic differences from previous uni- body design.
When Singapore refused to replace the causeway, he proposed demolishing the Malaysian half anyway and replacing it with a bridge, even though the limited space would have necessitated a wonky, dog-leg design.
The impressive skeletal bridge infrastructure that overhangs the stage finally sees some action, as Lee Savage's clever scenery design is utilized in a pivotal moment for David and Hannah.
It's a lot like the Series 7 we checked out, though this guy is of course a smidge thinner and lighter, given the fanless design and inclusion of an Atom-based Clover Trail processor instead of something in the Ivy Bridge family.
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