Bridges

Here are some selected links you might like to try.

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Bridge Basics - A Spotter's Guide to Bridge Design
Probably a bit too basic for a civil engineer, but very handy for the rest of us, this site describes the most common fixed (non-movable) bridge types, with illustrations. Another section of the site gives definitions of bridge terminology.
http://pghbridges.com/basics.htm|

Bridge Engineering Home Page
A large collection of links to government agencies, universities, companies and others involved in bridge engineering.
http://www.scsolutions.com/bridge/|

BridgePros
A site dedicated to the engineering, history and construction of bridges. Most of the news and current information relates to US projects, but not all.
http://bridgepros.com/|

Bridges
A Great Buildings Online site, covering bridges. Includes links to entries on individual bridges with full details and images, and in some cases 3-D models.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/types/bridge.html|

BridgeSite
Lots of links to bridge-related sites, plus discussion forums, software, photos and events listings.
http://www.bridgesite.com/|

Brooklyn Bridge
A huge number of facts and figures on the famous New York Bridge.
http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/bbridge/bbridgefacts.htm|

Digital Bridges
The Digital Bridges web site consists of a collection of thirty representative 19th century American bridge engineering monographs, manuals, and documents from the Lehigh University Libraries' Special Collections. The site includes facsimilies of the the documents, full bibliographic details, a glossary, plus names and information on the bridges and the people involved with them.
http://bridges.lib.lehigh.edu/index.html|

Forth Bridges Visitor Centre Trust
Official site of both the Road Bridge and the world famous Rail Bridge over the Forth in Scotland, with facts and figures, statistics, an image gallery, and links.
http://www.forthbridges.org.uk/|

Golden Gate Bridge
The official site of the bridge. It includes details of the design and construction, and full details of the ongoing work to the bridge, such as the seismic retrofit currently underway.
http://www.goldengatebridge.org/|

Historic Bridge Foundation
The Historic Bridge Foundation works for the preservation of historic bridges in the USA. Includes information on types of bridge construction.
http://historicbridgefoundation.com/|

History of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
The Tacoma Narrows bridge is famous for all the wrong reasons. This site from the University of Washington Library gives the story and images of the construction, collapse and rebuilding of the bridge.
http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/exhibits/tnb/|

Humber Bridge
Official site of the suspension bridge, with the history of the making of the bridge, the financial aspects including toll charges, operating costs and traffic statistics, engineering details and staffing arrangements.
http://www.humberbridge.co.uk/|

National Bridge Inventory Database
Nationalbridges.com provides detailed technical and engineering information about hundreds of thousands of bridges in the USA including year built, bridge design, condition and many other fields.
http://nationalbridges.com/|

Øresundbron
The official site of the Øresund Fixed Link between Denmark and Sweden.
http://uk.oresundsbron.com/page/34|

Strait of Messina Bridge
Official site of the proposed bridge between Sicily and mainland Italy, which if built will be the longest suspension bridge in the world. In Italian and English.
http://www.strettodimessina.it/|

Tacoma Narrows Bridge: Extreme History
History and more on the Tacoma Narrows suspension bridges, from the collapse of 'Galloping Gertie', to its replacement, and now the new suspension bridge currently under construction. The site includes a timeline, glossary, trivia, facts, and resources on the bridges.
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/TNBhistory/|

Tower Bridge Exhibition
Official site of one of the most famous bridges in the world, with lots of facts and figures about the bridge and its history.
http://www.towerbridge.org.uk/TBE/EN/|

Viaduc de Millau
English-language version of the official site of the Foster-designed tallest bridge in the world. The site includes technical details and an animation of the construction process.
http://www.leviaducdemillau.com/english/index.html|

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