The pier of a bridge is an intermediate support that holds the deck of the structure. It is a massive and permanent support, as opposed to the shoring...

A pier, in architecture, is an upright support for a structure or superstructure such as an arch or bridge. Sections of structural walls between openings...

A pier is a raised structure that rises above a body of water and usually juts out from its shore, typically supported by piles or pillars, and provides...

engineering, a bridge bearing is a component of a bridge which typically provides a resting surface between bridge piers and the bridge deck. The purpose...

Sunshine Skyway was a two-lane beam bridge with a central truss bridge built directly to the west of the current structure. It was completed in 1954, and a...

structure of the bridge, spreading the weight of the piers. The term cutwater is used for such a structure shaped with water flow in mind, as a pier or...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dolphin (structure). Starling (structure) - a protective base for bridge piers Tsinker, Gregory P. (February 16, 2004)...

Military bridges Orphan bridge Outline of bridges Overpass Pier (bridge structure) Pontoon bridge Rigid-frame bridge Steel bridge Structure gauge Transporter...

elevated piers or in areas of unstable soil. In addition, since they do not depend on horizontal compression forces for their integrity, tied-arch bridges can...

foundation piers, and which are named the Golden Jubilee Bridges. The north end of the bridge is Charing Cross railway station, and is near Embankment Pier and...

The bridge has been consistently ranked as one of the greatest engineering achievements of modern times, and received the 2006 Outstanding Structure Award...

foundation for the bridge piers. Bouch redesigned the bridge to reduce the number of piers and increase the span of the girders. The pier foundations were...

the Germans demolished the pier by removing the wooden upper structure from its foundation, most likely due to fears the pier could be used by the Allied...

the bridge over the years, with vessels colliding with the piers due to the strong tides. In 1960 two river barges hit one of the piers on the bridge, causing...

Bridge scour is the removal of sediment such as sand and gravel from around bridge abutments or piers. Hydrodynamic scour, caused by fast flowing water...

England Pier (architecture), an upright support used in buildings Pier (bridge structure) an upright support between two spans of a bridge The Pier, a 2011...

19th-century structures, and is a part of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway, a series of parks and bike paths around Brooklyn. The park's first portion, Pier 1,...

Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse in 1980, but existing bridges were exempted by a grandfather clause, and the Francis Scott Key Bridge piers lacked the level...

before the building of the Britannia Bridge, the Menai Suspension Bridge had been completed, but this structure carried a road rather than track; there...

Ireland's longest bridge. The bridge received in 2021 an Outstanding Structure Award from the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering...

Wigan Pier is an area around the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, south-west of the town centre. The name has humorous...

Birnbeck Pier, also known as the 'Old Pier', is a pier situated on the Bristol Channel in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, England, approximately 18...

surrounding structures. Sir John Betjeman, English poet and broadcaster, once said that "the Pier is Southend, Southend is the Pier". The pier is a Grade...

Mateo–Hayward Bridge Now Open". CBS San Francisco. Bay City News Service. May 25, 2015. Retrieved May 25, 2015. Jones, Ken. "San Mateo Pier". Pier Fishing in...

and top chords; the steel towers atop each pier measure 185 feet (56 m) tall. Unlike other large bridges, the trusses are not suspended; instead, the...

the Alexandria Canal. The same eight piers supported two bridges: a wooden canal bridge and an iron truss bridge carrying a roadway and an electric trolley...

pier with a restaurant was built in 1906. Pack ice damaged the structure in 1918; in 1920 the bridge head was destroyed by fire. In 1924, the bridge was...

designing the new structure came to the conclusion that the striking stability and condition of the masonry piers would carry the new bridge with but slight...

and the bricks the cantilever end piers which are weighted with cast iron. The bridge was the first major structure in Britain to be constructed of steel;...

bridge bonds were paid off. The decommissioned original bridge served as two 1.5-mile-long fishing piers until they were largely destroyed by Hurricane Ivan...