Floating suspension bridge

Floating suspension bridge
Ancestor	Suspension bridge
Related	Suspension bridge; Underspanned suspension bridge; see also cable-stayed bridge
Carries	Pedestrians, bicycles, livestock, automobiles, trucks, light rail
Span range	long
Movable	No

A floating suspension bridge is a type of suspension bridge supported by towers built on floating pontoons which are tethered to the seabed. The design is intended to overcome the difficulties of building suspension towers in locations where the water is particularly deep. As of 2021^[update] no such bridges have been built, but a project is underway to build one in Norway, at Bjørnafjord, designed by engineer Ian Firth.^[1]

References

^ "Norway is getting a floating suspension bridge tethered to the bottom of the sea — and it could change the way we make bridges". BusinessInsider.

Floating suspension bridges - Long span bridges - Research - Structural Dynamics - Department of Structural Engineering - NTNU
Moe, Ole Harald; Aas-Jakobsen, Ketil; Amdahl, Jørgen (2017). "Analysis of tether anchored floating suspension bridge subjected to extreme environmental loads". Procedia Engineering. 199: 3033–3038. doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2017.09.536.
https://www.vegvesen.no/vegprosjekter/ferjefriE39/konferanse/teknologidagene2015/_attachment/1023556?_ts=14ff54620d0&fast_title=11+-+Johannes+Veie++Presentation+of+TLP-concept+Teknologidagene.pdf Archived 17 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine

This article about a specific type of bridge is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] "Norway is getting a floating suspension bridge tethered to the bottom of the sea — and it could change the way we make bridges". BusinessInsider.

[1]

Floating suspension bridge

See also

References

Further reading