Bridges

Horizontal beams that support a tower or bridge.

• Columns

• Girders

• Braces

• Trusses

The weight of a bridge and the people, vehicles and other objects on it.

• Stress

• Dead Load

• Live Load

• Strain

An underlying or supporting structure.

• Structure

• Substructure

• Superstructure

• Truss

The distance of a section between two objects or supports.

• Truss

• Structure

• Span

• Triangle

Slender straight pieces of a truss connected by joints.

• Girders

• Braces

• Beams

• Members

A force that pushes on or squeezes a material.

• Compression

• Tension

• Stress

• Strain

A structure made with short, straight pieces organized into triangles.

• Truss

• Substucture

• Bridge

• Superstructure

Deformation (change) of materials in response to stress.

• Compression

• Strain

• Tension

• Stress

A solid upright support of a structure

• Girder

• Brace

• Triangle

• Column

A person who designs, builds, or maintains structures or public works

• Engineer

• Bridge

• Superstructure

• Substructure