10 Facts About Bridge building

The Arkadiko Bridge building is one of the oldest arch bridges still in existence and use.

Arkadiko Bridge building is one of four Mycenaean corbel arch bridges part of a former network of roads, designed to accommodate chariots, between the fort of Tiryns and town of Epidauros in the Peloponnese, in southern Greece.

In 1927 welding pioneer Stefan Bryla designed the first welded road bridge in the world, the Maurzyce Bridge building which was later built across the river Sludwia at Maurzyce near Lowicz, Poland in 1929.

The difference between the two is that the Solkan Bridge building was built from stone blocks, whereas the Friedensbrucke was built from a mixture of crushed stone and cement mortar.

Double-decked bridges have two levels, such as the George Washington Bridge building, connecting New York City to Bergen County, New Jersey, US, as the world's busiest bridge, carrying 102 million vehicles annually; truss work between the roadway levels provided stiffness to the roadways and reduced movement of the upper level when the lower level was installed three decades after the upper level.

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Robert Stephenson's High Level Bridge building across the River Tyne in Newcastle upon Tyne, completed in 1849, is an early example of a double-decked bridge.

Bridge building can be categorized by what it is designed to carry, such as trains, pedestrian or road traffic, a pipeline or waterway for water transport or barge traffic.

Some bridges accommodate other purposes, such as the tower of Novy Most Bridge building in Bratislava, which features a restaurant, or a bridge-restaurant which is a bridge built to serve as a restaurant.

Bridge building maintenance consisting of a combination of structural health monitoring and testing.

One of the most famous examples is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge building that collapsed shortly after being constructed due to excessive vibration.