bridge cable
Span's steel sinew
A bridge cable is one of the heavy steel cables that support a suspension bridge, running from towers to anchorages and holding up the roadway through vertical suspender cables.
The main cables on major bridges can be over a meter in diameter, composed of thousands of individual wires bundled together: Workers inspected the bridge cables for corrosion.
- suspensionTemporary halt or exclusion
- steelCarbon-hardened iron alloy
- wire ropeStranded metal cordage
- wireThin metallic conductor
- tensionStretched or strained state
span · tower · strand · sway · support · catenary · Golden Gate · hang · strength · structural integrity · vibration · wind · galvanized · corrosion · deck · pylon · engineering · taut
structural function
bridge cablebridge deck
Span's travel surface
roadway · carriageway · bridge span · anchorage · abutment
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