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  • Thumbnail for Abutment
    An abutment is the substructure at the ends of a bridge span or dam supporting its superstructure. Single-span bridges have abutments at each end that...
    5 KB (425 words) - 05:12, 16 September 2023
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    is definitively attached to natural teeth and replaces missing teeth. Abutment: The tooth that supports and retains a dental prosthesis. Pontic: The artificial...
    44 KB (4,791 words) - 06:58, 20 May 2024
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    in the present day; for with the exception of the masonry of the abutment at each end, in which large trees have taken root and displaced the stones, the...
    3 KB (407 words) - 17:38, 21 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Victoria Bridge Abutment
    iron, with stone abutments at each end. The stonework was undertaken by Arthur Midson and the ironwork by Messrs Cormick. The abutment comprises a large...
    21 KB (3,013 words) - 23:32, 22 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Arch bridge
    An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its loads...
    27 KB (2,975 words) - 22:46, 4 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for North End, Halifax
    The North End of Halifax is a neighbourhood of Halifax, Nova Scotia occupying the northern part of Halifax Peninsula immediately north of Downtown Halifax...
    25 KB (2,688 words) - 21:38, 20 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ryde Pier
    the construction of the marina in the 1980s, the outline of the shore-end abutment could be made out in the sea wall near Ryde Pavilion, and at low spring...
    15 KB (1,784 words) - 11:17, 10 January 2024
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    waterline. Other men tried digging a ditch at the other end of the dam, on the western abutment which was lower than the dam crest. The idea was to let...
    51 KB (6,507 words) - 02:02, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Jolly Bridge
    longitudinal broad flange beams supported by rows of piers, with the southern end abutment being earth filled between reinforced concrete retaining walls. A misconception...
    43 KB (5,829 words) - 13:25, 17 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cable-stayed bridge
    loads from the main spans are normally anchored back near the end abutments by stays in the end spans. For more spans, this is not the case and the bridge...
    35 KB (4,176 words) - 13:44, 8 June 2024
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    performed. The results convinced him that the hill would make a satisfactory abutment for a dam should the need ever arise. A surprising aspect of the early...
    77 KB (10,358 words) - 20:16, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Full arch restoration
    Scan abutments. First, multi-unit abutments are placed to provide support for the prosthesis. Next, scanning caps are mounted onto these abutments, after...
    21 KB (2,507 words) - 22:35, 1 June 2024
  • Whereas a BAHA implant is a percutaneous device that requires the screw abutment to protrude through the skin, the BONEBRIDGE is a transcutaneous device...
    31 KB (3,309 words) - 00:18, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Beam bridge
    the simplest structural forms for bridge spans supported by an abutment or pier at each end. No moments are transferred throughout the support, hence their...
    4 KB (337 words) - 07:50, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Headstock (rolling stock)
    structural member located at the extreme end of the vehicle's underframe. The headstock supports the coupling at that end of the vehicle, and may also support...
    2 KB (200 words) - 15:43, 21 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway
    20 feet (6 m) thick and 30 feet (9 m) wide. The overall span between end abutments is 500 feet (150 m).[citation needed] The structure was seriously damaged...
    23 KB (2,883 words) - 12:24, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brown's Canyon Bridge
    5 m) wide. It is supported by a concrete center pier and two concrete end abutments. Its design is credited to T.W. Jaycox, Colorado State Engineer, and...
    4 KB (445 words) - 12:24, 9 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Tsakona Arch Bridge
    €131.5 million. The bridge is supported at three points: one at each end (abutments) and one that is closer to the top of the pier. The last is the most...
    4 KB (339 words) - 09:31, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Integral bridge
    monolithically from abutment to abutment. Movement due to thermal expansion and contraction or braking loads is accommodated by the end walls or abutments. Where intermediate...
    6 KB (690 words) - 13:58, 18 March 2019
  • Thumbnail for Belah Viaduct
    structure of the viaduct was demolished in the summer of 1963. The stone abutments at either side of the Belah valley still remain. Charles Davis wrote a...
    6 KB (687 words) - 05:55, 18 September 2022
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