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EYEBAR [4 records]

Record 1 2017-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Joints and Connections (Construction)
  • Tunnels, Overpasses and Bridges
DEF

A metal bar having a hole or eye through each enlarged end.

CONT

The first iron bridge on record was a 33-m. cast-iron arch across the River Severn... completed in 1779. Fifty years later wrought iron had been developed. A 200-m. chain link suspension bridge... across the Danube at Budapest... was a fine example of how engineers exploited this new material by forming it into either link or "eyebar" chains.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Joints et assemblages (Construction)
  • Tunnels, viaducs et ponts
CONT

Les ponts suspendus avec câbles en chaînes ou barres à œil se sont d'abord développés en Angleterre et en Amérique. Les câbles en chaînes ont été remplacés par des câbles en fils de fer parallèles vers les début du XIXe siècle.

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tunnels, Overpasses and Bridges
OBS

The first iron bridge on record was a 33-m. cast-iron arch across the River Severn... completed in 1779. Fifty years later wrought iron had been developed. A 200-m. chain link suspension bridge... across the Danube at Budapest... was a fine example of how engineers exploited this new material by forming it into either link or "eyebar" chains.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tunnels, viaducs et ponts
CONT

Les ponts suspendus avec câbles en chaînes ou barres à œil se sont d'abord développés en Angleterre et en Amérique. Les câbles en chaînes ont été remplacés par des câbles en fils de fer parallèles vers le début du XIXe siècle.

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-10-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tunnels, Overpasses and Bridges
CONT

The wire [of suspension bridge] is delivered to the site in reels, from which loops are carried over the tops of the towers to the far anchorage, where each loop is pulled off the sheave and placed around a strand shoe, by which it is anchored.

CONT

The use of a strand shoe anchorage is restricted to cables erected in situ, and so this detail is found only at the anchorage of suspension bridge main cables erected by the air spinning method.

CONT

The four main cables are composed of parallel wires carried back and forth across the river, each containing 61 strands of 434 individual wires. Each strand wraps around a strand shoe in the anchorage. Each shoe connects to an eyebar which penetrates into the anchorage and holds the strand in place.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tunnels, viaducs et ponts

Spanish

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Record 4 1988-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tunnels, Overpasses and Bridges
CONT

The first iron bridge on record was a 33-m. cast-iron arch across the River Severn... completed in 1779. Fifty years later wrought iron had been developed. A 200-m. chain link suspension bridge... across the Danube at Budapest... was a fine early example of how engineers exploited this new material by forming it into either link or "eyebar" chains.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tunnels, viaducs et ponts
OBS

Les premiers ponts comportant des éléments porteurs en fer ont été des ponts suspendus (...) Le premier pont à voitures construit en Amérique en 1796 était (...) suspendu à des chaînes à maillons en fer forgé. Sa portée n'était que de 21 m (...) l'invention des chaînes constituées de barres articulées (...) a permis de passer à des portées beaucoup plus grandes.

Spanish

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