August 2007 (37.325 Degrees, 138.454 Degrees) Agewa Ohashi |
The spandrel bridge columns have slender diagonal members at the top sloping towards the center of the arch ribs to keep the whole thing stable. They did a remarkable job of preventing bridge damage during the 2007 earthquake.
Niigata, Japan's Bridges: Agewa Ohashi Bridge (上輪大橋) on Route 8 (3) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
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