Suspension Bridge

Suspension Bridge Design

Our suspension bridge originally had
three options. Each design was shown
and chosen by the group leader in
order for Serge to draw the design
onto the paper. The outcome is the
picture in the next slide:
 Design of
Suspension
Bridge
• If the project is somehow accepted, some of the
planned designs would change since a lot of
factors are to be taken in to view. You would
need to consider the geology of the sites to
provide foundation for the towers and cable
anchoranges and the depth and nature of water
(fresh, salt water; strength of currents.
• The towers may also need to be protected from
ship collisions if the waters are navigable.
Artificial islands would need to be built at its
base.
• Also weather conditions and natural
disasters are to be taken seriously since
many bridges have collapsed or have
been destroyed due to this. The bridge
would then be tested using wind tunnels
and the bridges scale models whether to
test if the bridge would sway or be
stable even in strong windy conditions.
How will you convince the City Council
that the design is stable and strong?
• We will convince the City Council that our
design is stable and strong by showing them
a blueprint and a list of materials that will be
used in the project to show them proof of
how the design is made.
Some of the used materials may be:
• Steel girders or beams;
• Galvanized steel cables
 Materials
• Steel beams
-used to make the deck rigid
-also used for the saddles, or open channels, on which the
cables rest atop a suspension bridge's towers.

• Galvanized steel cables

-Steel cables are strong enough to support a suspension
bridge but that won’t let rusting get in its way as the bridge starts
to age. To prevent this some engineers use galvanized steel cables in
order to make the bridge last longer. Galvanization is the process of
applying a protective zinc coating to steel or iron, to prevent rusting.
The most common method is hot-dip galvanizing, in which parts are
submerged in a bath of molten zinc.