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Valtschielbach Bridge

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  • Seto Great Bridge
    In bridge: Maillart’s innovations

    Maillart’s Valtschielbach Bridge of 1926, a deck-stiffened arch with a 43-metre (142-foot) span, demonstrated that the arch can be extremely thin as long as the deck beam is stiff. The arch at Valtschielbach increases in thickness from a mere 23 cm (9 inches) at the crown…

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