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2010-11-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Tehran Bridge Draws International Acclaim

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Posted by Bobby 2010-11-16 08:36|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Nice target

Posted by armyguy 2010-11-16 09:26|| 2010-11-16 09:26|| Front Page Top

#2 If you look at the left of the shown image and click on the last of the PressTV images you can see that this bridge is a composite with part of the structure being a post and beam design and part a cable stayed design.

I can't understand why the cable stay design was chosen. I also don't understand why the superstructure of the cable beam is so massive.

Posted by Lord Garth 2010-11-16 12:18|| 2010-11-16 12:18|| Front Page Top

#3 It looks like somebody getting ready to do something naughty.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-11-16 16:44|| 2010-11-16 16:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Any thoughts from Rantburg's many civil engineers?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-11-16 18:14|| 2010-11-16 18:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Pretty bridge is pretty, don't know if it would scale tho.... frankly.

Posted by Goldies Every Damn Where 2010-11-16 20:08|| 2010-11-16 20:08|| Front Page Top

#6 clunky - it looks like a bent-over mullah

it's not elegant, the steel looks too big and boxy. The columns are way oversized using bulk concrete instead of well-designed smaller, architecturally pleasing piers. The edge treatment looks crappy. The materials are probably inferior - looks at the steel shapes. Nice quality control.

other than that, it will be a nice blockage on the rail lines when the Joooos drop it

/hey! you asked

Posted by Frank G 2010-11-16 20:17|| 2010-11-16 20:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Boy, that's ugly.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-11-16 22:05|| 2010-11-16 22:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Boy, that's ugly.
But wouldn't it look nice with Dinner Jacket and a bunch of mullahs hanging from it?

Posted by Glenmore 2010-11-16 23:34|| 2010-11-16 23:34|| Front Page Top

#9 #8 Boy, that's ugly.
But wouldn't it look nice with Dinner Jacket and a bunch of mullahs hanging from it?

ohhh I didn't include the value of public art...

Posted by Frank G 2010-11-16 23:42|| 2010-11-16 23:42|| Front Page Top

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