The Design of Modern Steel Bridges - TEDI

site. Erection methods of launching and cantilevering were widened by the
development of floating-out techniques and heavy lifting equipment suitable
for handling entire structures in one piece.
Post-war years also saw a great expansion of the understanding of structural
behaviour and analysis of indeterminate interconnected structural systems. The
state-of-the-art before the war generally consisted of assuming pin-jointed
connections between different structural elements and manually solving simultaneous
equations. In the aftermath of the war devastations, the knowledge and
experience of the aircraft industry was imported into bridge building in order to
Figure 1.31 Sava Bridge, Belgrade, Serbia.
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Figure 1.32 Auckland Harbour Bridge, New Zealand (1969).