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Bridge
Builders Advocate Chapter XII:
Beach Road
Cable-Stayed Bridge
Despite
the practicality of cable-stayed technology developed in France and Great
Britain during the 1800s, this style of bridge would not be widely built until
after World War II when French Engineer
Albert Caquot
(1881-1976) and German
Engineer Franz Dischinger (1887-1953) introduced effective and economical
cable-stayed bridge designs in answer to major steel shortages in Europe.
The first cable-stayed suspension
bridge entirely located in Ohio was built by the the C.J. Mahan Construction
Company in 2001. It carries Beach Road over
the Big Darby Creek in Brown Township.
The 300-foot long structure is
supported by cables connected to four 80-foot tall towers.
To protect the environmentally
sensitive area, the single span bridge was designed without any piers in the
waterway.
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