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Liberty Bridge could be the ultimate car-free span
- icodestuff 11y ago> How can a millennial ’trep with no lofty urban-design credentials even consider proposing such a bold idea? What is a "'trep"?
- MBlume 11y agoEntrepreneur? I've never seen this used before either.
- theoh 11y agoThe proposed "box truss" is sometimes called a Vierendeel truss and has been used occasionally in modern architecture. The omission of diagonal members means that the joints must be rigid (not pinned), complicating the structural calculations because the structure is then statically overdetermined. It's a promising design I think, compared to the clunky garden bridge proposed for London.