Bridge Vocabulary Test #1

What is the purpose of abutments in a bridge?

• To bend under compression

• To change shape

• the outermost end supports on a bridge, which carry the load from the deck

• To support the deck

the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets

• Iron

• Cable

• Ductility

• Elastic

What is the purpose of floor beams in a bridge?

• horizontal members that are placed transversely to the major beams

• To change shape

• To bend under compression

• To support the deck

What is the main characteristic of elastic?

• It fails without warning

• It stretches and shortens

• cord, tape, or fabric, typically woven with strips of rubber, that returns to its original length or shape after being stretched

  
  

• It is malleable

characteristic of a material that fails without warning; brittle materials do not stretch or shorten before failing

• diagonal

• Brittle

• deck

• deform

Buckle

• to bend under compression

• a structural element formed from steel wire bound in strands; the suspending element in a bridge; the supporting element in some dome roofs

• a pressing force that squeezes a material together

• supported roadway on a bridge

• to change shape

cable

• to bend under compression

• a structural element formed from steel wire bound in strands; the suspending element in a bridge; the supporting element in some dome roofs

• a pressing force that squeezes a material together

• supported roadway on a bridge

• to change shape

deform

• to bend under compression

• a structural element formed from steel wire bound in strands; the suspending element in a bridge; the supporting element in some dome roofs

• a pressing force that squeezes a material together

• supported roadway on a bridge

• to change shape

deck

• to bend under compression

• a structural element formed from steel wire bound in strands; the suspending element in a bridge; the supporting element in some dome roofs

• a pressing force that squeezes a material together

• supported roadway on a bridge

• to change shape

compression

• to bend under compression

• a structural element formed from steel wire bound in strands; the suspending element in a bridge; the supporting element in some dome roofs

• a pressing force that squeezes a material together

• supported roadway on a bridge

• to change shape