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The Hassfurt Bridge (or Haßfurt Bridge) is an iron cantilever bridge across the river Main in the town of Haßfurt, Bavaria. Built by Heinrich Gerber in 1867 with a center span of 425 ft (130 m), the Gerber truss road bridge is reckoned the first modern cantilever bridge in the world.[1][2]
Design
[edit]The bridge uses the form of a Gerber truss, which combines a truss structure with cantilevering. This offers an improvement upon a design with separate trusses.[3]
Influences
[edit]It influenced the construction of other more famous cantilever bridges, the Forth Bridge in Scotland[1] and later the Niagara Cantilever Bridge and the Quebec Bridge in Canada.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "The Forth Rail Bridge". Engineering Timelines. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
- ^ a b Middleton, William D. (2001). The Bridge at Québec. Indiana University Press. p. 16.
- ^ Muttoni, Aurelio (2011). The Art of Structures: Introduction to the Functioning of Structures in Architecture. EPFL Press. pp. 152–153.