Unlike beams girders are designed to support major concentrated loads such as columns or beam reactions and their load bearing capacity is much greater than beams.
Concrete girder floor beam bridge.
The ponte morandi was a cable stayed bridge characterised by a prestressed concrete structure for the piers pylons and deck very few stays as few as two per span and a hybrid system for the stays constructed from steel cables with prestressed concrete shells poured on.
Pctg pedestrian bridges comprise precast prestressed concrete girders connected by cast in place reinforced concrete floor beams and a cast in place deck.
90012 southern california regional rail authority precast prestressed concrete double box beam bridges for engineering standards drawing index with driven steel h pile foundations 33 double box beams on precast concrete caps sheet showing section or detail cut sheet showing section or detail.
Reinforced concrete beam and girder although not as picturesque as the covered bridges the stone steel and concrete arches or the metal trusses reinforced concrete beam and girder nonetheless play an important role in the history of bridge building in vermont.
The deck is connected to the floor beams only and the floor beams are joined to the girders using embedded concrete anchors.