Every Kind of Bridge Explained in 15 Minutes
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Errata: At 9:25, Edmonton is in Alberta, not Saskatchewan.
Without listing every bridge, there’s no true way to list every type of bridge. There’s too much nuance, creativity, and mixing and matching designs. But that’s part of the joy of paying attention to bridges. Once you understand the basics, you can start to puzzle out the more interesting details.
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@3:40 "To keep the bridge....Truss Worthy." HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRR HUR HUR HUR HUR HUR!! XD
The floating bridge was cool.
That French one at 8 minutes into the video.
Bridgehead .
my favourite is stressed-ribbon bridge, that i built in Lesotho: called Metolong pedeestrian bridge,
but the nicest project i did, that i had most joy was Blackburn Pedestrian Cable stay bridge in Durban
"Oh, you like bridges? Name every bridge." "O.K."
Uh, uh, ummmm... London Bridge? 😮
"Bridges? We ain't got no bridges. We don't need no bridges. We don't have to show you any stinking bridges!"
Does it need to be global or country specific?
And Grady took that personally.
Who is writing “OK” like that you alien😭
Me playing poly bridge: "Y'know I'm something of a bridge engineer myself".
😂
I can't believe he made no mentions of safety gaps anywhere in this video.
Poly bridge is such an amazing engineering game
Polybridge? Real bridge engineers play pontifex and bridge construction set. We're not afraid of physics!
And I thought I was an expert after playing World of Goo...
The best thing that can happen. You have a bad day, you open TH-cam and see "Every Kind of Bridge Explained in 15 Minutes - 3 minutes ago"
And @kurzgesagt just dropped another Black Hole video. 😊
AND @engineerguy just dropped a deep dive on duct tape
Hope your day got better!
Me. Today. My mood has improved greatly though, and I still have 6 more minutes before lunch break ends and it’s back to pain
@@sphygoim on lunch to right now 😂
3:36 i heard what you did there!
“… to keep the structural elements truss-worthy”
Or maybe it's "trusworthy", just like Conservapedia.
Exactly my thought. Surely that's an intentional easter egg.
Glad I wasn't the only one to spot that.
That was golden.
It's intentional. Closed captions have it.
Now that's what I call a proper Bridge Review
Yup, I came here expecting this.. and i'm not surprised.
We be Nerds.
6.9 out of 6.9
Bridge review....
So many BILFs in this video... 🥵
RCE!!!!
You know what this needs....
A Bridge Reviewwwwww!
This is how I imagine an RCE onlyfans would be
A load of BILFs for sure.
I heard that in my head as soon as I saw the title.
Someone please summon him
Bridge tierlist?
It feels like someone pulled a "Oh you like civil engineering? Name every kind of bridge" and this was Grady's response.
And that is why I applaud his efforts.
At my previous engineering company, I created a short presentation about the component of bridges, mostly to tell the other engineers who did not work on bridges, such as a drainage engineer or traffic engineers, and had a section on the types of bridges. My final category was simply titled , "complex combination or as we bridge guys say, headaches"
Do you still have the presentation in a power point format or something else? I'm curious to learn more detail about the types of bridges. If you could share a presentation, that'd be helpful.
I'd also love to see the presentation. It could make a cool topic to present to my peers.
I had to chuckle as a native Pittsburgher. So many different kinds of bridges in one city.
Oh my goodness, yes. I had never seen anything like it!
My mechanical engineer brother went on a vacation to Pittsburgh specifically to look at bridges.
Once I saw the first one, I kept looking for more. Grady didn’t disappoint!
@@rareroe305 that's the nerdiest reason to choose a vacation spot. love it
I was pleased to see Pittsburgh appropriately represented! If Grady ever finds himself up north, it might make a fun video!
So much to talk about! It feels like this video was abridged.
With puns like that, you may get decked.....! 😅✌️😎
I will always truss you to make good puns! 👍
I am sure Brandon has travelled by rail on most of these bridges.
Booooo!!! 😂
@RealCivilEngineer will really love this video.
I was thinking the same thing
Was scrolling down to see how long before RCE was mentioned.
RCE mentioned
Hello, fellow RCE fans.
Now we want a collab.
Just finished "Engineering in plain sight" and passed it on to my niece. Thank you!
My favourite type:
Ethernet bridge
Nah, full wave bridge rectifiers are better 😉
Or the Einstein-Rosen bridge.
So many luls for this one 😂😂
Floyd Rose tremolo bridge.
Recently month wise but 51 years ago, ether first had a working example.
Here's a drinking game for you: take a shot every time a bridge from the Pittsburgh area is displayed in this video
As a bridge design engineer in Pittsburgh, this gave all the warm and fuzzies. I keep your book right next to my AISC manual👷♂️
As a native Pittsburgher, I recognized every single bridge that's in Pittsburgh that came on the screen. If you love bridges you can absolutely eat your heart out, so to speak, in Pittsburgh! You gotta love the City of Bridges!
And city of stairs. So many stairs.
Akashi Kaikyo Bridge: Twin hinge three span continuous stiffen truss girder suspension bridge with a double tower system. I can now impress my friends in Kobe Japan with that knowledge. Thank you Grady.
Only if you can do it in Japanese!
that shot of the Veluwemeer Aqueduct at 14:34 is insanely cool
It boggles my mind.
@@shaha9I used to sail there a lot and the weirdest part is that when crossing it on water you barely even notice it... It just feels like a regular short canal
And the Erasmus bridge as well! You make the Dutch proud.
My first response upon seeing it, was: “does not compute”
@@alexanderthomas2660 It helps to think of it like 'just' an aquaduct. But on both sides there isn't a river but a lake. It's also really unassuming to drive through by car, it feels like just any tunnel. By boat it's just a narrow bit you have to pay attention at. The true beauty really shows in the famous drone shots
The Dutch highway administration refers to their bridges as artworks.
As an artist who was making an animated video for them, I was thoroughly confused about what they meant for quite a while
Same expression is used in French.
To be fair, thats just archaic use of language, not an expression of aesthetic value (similar to kunststof, kunstmatig, etc).
Bridge designers are often very conscious of the appearance of their bridges. There's a lovely illustrated book called 'Brucken' (Bridges) by Fritz Leonhardt, published last century but still in print, that goes into detail about the visual effect of elements of bridges. You can tell from many of the bridges that Grady has illustrated in this video that the designers were very conscious of the appearance.
"Truss-worthy" got me 😂
Perfect dry delivery too.
The lentil trivia fact blew my mind more than anything in this video
I came here to say this 😂
I hate the lenticular look
Watching your videos makes me feel like a kid again. Your videos bring back that sense of wonder I used to have.
I think this is one of the only few channels who faithfully sticks to the actual content and serve the purpose of title and video, no rubbish just simple plain 100% pure knowledge.
The Steel Bridge in Portland Oregon is a thrught truss double deck vertical lift bridge. The upper deck carries cars and light rail, the lower deck pedestrians, bikes and freight trains, oh and Amtrak. But what makes it SUPER cool is that it is the ONLY working bridge of its type in the world (theres one in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania I think but it doesnt lift anymore) and is unique in that the two levels lift independantly of each other!
Its also the second oldest vertical lift bridge in America, after another Portland Bridge, the Hawthorn!
Certainly an impressive bridge, and one that I often go out of my way just to have the joy of driving across
For my money the prettiest bridge in Portland is the St. Johns Bridge. Tilikum Crossing is also very attractive, but it's a bit too modernistic for my tastes. I cross the Steel almost every day.
Ahh I was looking for the Portland people. I can't believe he didn't show a single bridge from Oregon!
@@chicken_punk_pie I know! I was disappointed.
Thank you! I like the wiki quote " making the bridge one of the most multimodal in the world." en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Bridge
One thing Practical Engineering and Rick Beato can agree on is that bridges are awesome
That would be a unique collaboration!
Take it to the bridge!!
10:53 Great cameo, Grady! This is an excellent episode, and I'm glad the bridges' labels are clear! 😎✌️
Thank you for using "our" LIFT BRIDGE in our city, Jacksonville, FL. Built in 1949, its gothic look and key part of the downtown architecture has made the "Main Street Bridge" a landmark for my favorite city. Thank you for the 15 minutes on bridges.
It IS cool, but few bridges define a city more than the Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth, Minnesota! 😎✌️
@@gus473 I agree...much history there too!
About 30 years ago I drove over a bridge in Costa Rica that appeared to be a simple truss bridge with the deck on top, but when I got out of the car on the far side to look at it, it appeared to be a suspension bridge with the deck pushing down (via steel rods) onto the the suspension cables, rather than the usual suspension bridge design of having the road deck hanging below the main suspension cables. I’ve never seen a similar design since, and haven’t been back to CR to see it again or take pictures, but that’s what I remember about it.
A quick google search and I think I may have found your bridge: _Rio Colorado bridge on the Bernardo expressway._ And it looks incredible.
That would be a most unusual design. I could see the point, you can use the suspension principle with a reduced height of the towers, BUT the cables below the deck would be unstable, they would 'want' to splay out sideways. The steel rods in compression would have to be fixed rigidly enough, and the deck would have to be extremely stiff in torsion (which most suspension bridge decks are not).
Unless there was a stiff truss structure below the deck with the suspension cables just 'helping' to carry the load.
I'd love to see a picture.
There’s nothing that makes the world seem normal and hopeful like Grady explaining cool stuff with that unique blend of clarity and wonder.
Going to send this to RCE so he can do bridge reviews.
Might as well send it to T. Folse Nuclear as well, since he can probably link this content to running a nuclear reactor in his review... somehow.
"or stunning sanitary sewers..." Grady, London is on the line. They'd like to have a word.
Yay! So many Pittsburgh bridges! It really is fun how diverse they are.
Thank you for putting in all the names and places of the bridges.
Great job, with such a long and complicated subject, I feel this video was the abridged version of this topic....I will see myself out....
trussworthy
I love you Grady
Love the video. One minor mistake at 9:22; the bridge is in Edmonton, Alberta, not Edmonton, Saskatchewan.
North Saskatchewan River... must be in Saskatchewan right?
@@Stravant I can't tell if you're asking a genuine question or being sarcastic, so I will answer the question just in case. The North and South Saskatchewan Rivers do both run through Saskatchewan, but the North one starts at the Saskatchewan Glacier in the Columbia Icefield, just outside of Banff, Alberta. The South one starts in southern Alberta, near Taber, and the two eventually meet in Saskatchewan at the Saskatchewan River Forks, becoming The Saskatchewan River. Edmonton, the city, is in Alberta.
I'm in love with the Forth Bridge. In my mind it's one of the 7 new world wonders and want to see it in real life some day.
That would be a great topic for a series! The 7 wonders of each century since well recorded history began. Each would involve engineering from differing knowledge bases.
Thanks for adding picture sources!
I see lots of Pittsburgh bridges in your video. Gotta' love the Smithfield Street lenticular bridge!
The best thing about videos like this for an engin-nerd like me is learning about new structures I wasn't aware of.... I'm now off down a rabbit hole looking up that Rolling Bridge in London & the transporter bridge in Spain. 👍 And I'd completely forgotten about that photo @ 7:27 ... it's such a brilliant way of demonstrating how the forces work as you can imagine how the weights & supports would feel in your own hands. Bridges really are human ingenuity at it's finest!
I just watched someone talk about different types of bridges for 17 minutes, couldn't ask for a better start to my day
I recently crossed a couple of low water crossings for the first time. There was a depth gauge in the middle and signs saying how deep it was safe to cross it. It was pretty freaky driving through a stream haha
I cannot thank you enough for choosing to work with sponsors who you believe your audience may be more inclined to be interested in rather than just taking any sponsor. This shows incredible integrity and I have great respect and admiration for what you do and the impact you have on our global community. Thank you so much.
We need a reality show where Grady goes and hangs out with civil engineers and construction workers on site and just fanboys for like an hour learning and relating, helping out competing in little challenges. I would live vicariously through that so hard 🤣
Happy to see Pittsburgh represent strongly in a video about bridges.
I see you (or somebody filming your B-roll) had a fun trip to Pittsburgh for parts of the B roll here.
3:43 "Truss-worthy"
That was magnificent.
As a bridge builder I have managed or been involved with bridge construction and design for 40 years including 6 major cable stays, a suspension bridge, major segmental bridges etc.
I think your programs are excellent eduction!!
...it probably says a lot about me that I saw this title and instantly knew I was going to delay my work start by about 20 minutes
You forgot a few kinds of bridges.
Bridge of the nose.
A bridge on a ship.
Musical bridge.
Dental bridge.
The card game.
Ballet pose.
and my favourite: holiday bridges
The actor Jeff.
As a denizen of the city of briges, this video was lovely.
It's always a joy to see some of the beautiful bridges we have in Quebec being showcased.
Great video, as always!
Pronunciation of Fort de Roovere was spot on!
Almost, haha
A 9.5 out of 10! BRIDGE REVIEEEEEWWWWWW
I came for 7:13 and was not disappointed. What a structure. What a country.
I'm a bridge inspector. I saw three of my bridges in this video! ❤❤
Thanks for making this!
I have built quite a few bridges in my life.. don't do it no more.
I loved the video, it took me back the memory lane
Yeah!!! I knew Pittsburgh had to in here a whole bunch. I love it. 412 baby😊
Yeah, I noticed 4 (edit: 6) scenes from PGH (one that was used twice, so 7 instances). There are some other bridges in PGH that would have been fun to include. Kind of wonky but I really like the concept of a Wichert Truss Bridge which was specifically designed to be "statically determinate" using pencil and paper math available in the 1930s. The Homestead Grays / High Level Bridge is a notorious example of this.
Basically just took a trip down the Monongahela listing almost every bridge until they got to the point (skipped only the Liberty Bridge and a couple train bridges) and took a short trip up the Allegheny to the 3 sisters (skipping only the Fort Duquesne Bridge).
This channel is among my top 5 favorite scientific education channels since it's so nice and educational.
I appreciate you adding the name and location of each bridge to the video. Thanks!
Loving all the PA bridges in the video
Arch bridges are always beautiful.
It's amazing the number of bridges you showed in you video that I have crossed. Live in the Pittsburgh area, so have been across most that you showed. Have been across most shown from London and Scotland. Firth of the Forth bridge was impressive, as was the "Harry Potter" viaduct. Rode over it behind steam power. As always first thing I watch when they come out.
It was good to see my old home town of Pittsburgh well represented...
1:46 Ayy, a video about bridges starting in Pittsburgh. :)
13:45 at least here in Brazil, we call viaduct the bridges over land (asphalt, other viaducts, etc); and call bridges the ones that pass over bodies of water (lakes, rivers, canals, etc)
The same here in the Netherlands.
Yes, that's what he said.
0:48 “all kindred in function, but contrary in form”
Nice!
I once went on the millau viaduct and the scale is mind blowing. The tallest pillar is taller than the eiffel tower, and there is 5 or so. Would recommend to anyone visiting southern France
Love the parrot shirt 10/10
We have a cover bridge near where I live, they look good on the outside but are terrible on the inside.
You always manage to make what should be boring (to the layperson) subjects interesting! When I got up this morning, I didn't expect I would be searching 'differences between Parker, Camelback and Bowstring bridges"!
I love that you chose the city of bridges for your video. I've been across all those pittsburgh bridges
Doctor: You only have 15 minutes left to live.
Me:
Thank you for labeling each bridge you show.
That bridge at 0:50 in Brazil is a thing of beauty.
That's some art right there
More than decade ago I learn most of the types of bridges to beat the game about bridges building (don't really remember the name). There were exact maps with the small variety of places to anker, and requirements for amount of cars and boats that can pass in same time. So, during the testing, bridge can collapse because of weight of load or because of boat collision.
The most fan way to learn something, is where you need to resolve some isues by your own. So you "reinvent" some already existing approaches or simply go and ask questions: how does people resolving such issues in the real life anyway?
poly bridge!
LOL it is hilarious that you are showing the Millennium Bridge in London which is such a shoddily designed bridge that it swayed when people walked on it. They had to close the bridge down to reinforce it. Truly a marvel of western engineering and creativity.
You are a gem Grady. Everytime I doubt and question why I took engineering, your videos remind me how beautiful and fascinating engineering really is.
Yeah, that's why I love this channel! He is true engineer by DNA! I wish @PracticalEngineeringChannel could bring up more detailed videos with some calculations on the various types of stress forces interacting with each other on the components of the different types of bridges. But I understand, that type of video would be called boring on TH-cam and views would have been far less.
I love bridges and always pause when I see a new one to understand how do they plan this one for balancing out forces? A good design, strength of the material, weight/force balance, aerodynamics, temperature, humidity, surrounding air quality, load prediction, etc. can be many challenges but all are conquered by engineers to build a bridge!
I want to see more "bio" bridges for foot traffic. The bridge is made from bio-engineered trees and it self-repairs.
I've always had a soft spot in my heart for bridges!
This was a fun video to watch on my walk earlier today in San Antonio. :)
Superb educational value. I’m making the statement is one engineer to another thank you Grady.
Great video as usual! This one has me wanting to plan trips around where some of these amazing bridges are so I can appreciate them in person.
you must have made a trip to pitt recently! so many awesome shots of the cool bridges in the area!!!
I'm working on a project that involves a bridge. The majority of it is just a beam bridge, but we were exploring the possibility of making one of the spans into a truss so that it can be longer. The problem that pretty much killed that idea is that it's on a curve that requires superelevation. Another thing we were trying to avoid was a straddle bent. A bent is the cross member that sits on top of the columns and supports the girder while a straddle bent is an extra wide bent that straddles another piece of roadway. Straddle bents are unsightly, expensive, and annoying to construct because the bent itself needs to be a lot deeper and have more reinforcement. I won't go into the math of it, but I think you can see where I'm going. We managed to work around it in the end by realigning the roadway and skewing some of the other bents. Suffice it to say, bridge engineering is not simple at all. Structural engineering in general is really difficult which is why it often requires additional licensing on top of a PE license
Pittsburgh here, thanks for the love. The huge diversity of bridges is one of the coolest parts of the city.
The Fort Pitt bridge-tunnel is my least favorite bridge due to DRIVING it. 😁
It is however considered one of the best views of a city in the world. With how you come out of the tunnel, and then just BOOM, there is the city in all it's glory.
Very comprehensive and lots of beautiful images and clips!
Alaska representing with that pipeline bridge!!
Pittsburgh definitely won, NY came in second I believe. Was happy to see New River Gorge bridge in WV …. You made this interesting, thank you!
We love you Grady!!! Never stop being so great
This brings me back to first year Civil Engineering Technology. Great video as usual. Thank you kindly Grady.
I was sad when Akashi Kaikyo was not shown as part of the suspension bridge but Grady made the whole video perfect at the end!
Thank you, Grady!
Also awesome job including the name and location of all the bridges!
Thanks for showing the Main St bridge w/ the now gone Jacksonville Landing. Love my home town.
You do such a great job describing all the structures we take for granted on a daily basis!
This content is what the discovery channel and TLC used to have, and thanks to this channel, I get to relax with some insight to structure engineering ❤
You included my hometown Front Royal Virginia! I've lived in Pittsburgh and love all the bridges there. I now live near San Francisco and use the Golden Gate bridge a lot.
Some of these bridges are truly magnificent. Thank you, Grady!
Love these kinds of videos where you breakdown a category