Broughton Suspension Bridge was an iron chain suspension bridge built in 1826 to span the River Irwell between Broughton and Pendleton, now in Salford...
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A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern examples of this type...
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North Yorkshire Broughton, Salford, Greater Manchester Broughton Suspension Bridge, 1831 collapse Broughton, Shropshire, in Myddle, Broughton and Harmer Hill...
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ignored them out of safety concerns; in 1831 Sir Samuel Brown's Broughton Suspension Bridge in Britain had collapsed under the marching feet of a troop of...
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1839. The Broughton Suspension Bridge had collapsed in 1831 when soldiers marched over it in step. Subsequent spectacular suspension bridge collapses...
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The Millennium Bridge, officially known as the London Millennium Footbridge, is a steel suspension bridge for pedestrians crossing the River Thames in...
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resonance effects on suspension bridges, following the 1831 collapse of the Broughton Suspension Bridge and the 1850 collapse of Angers Bridge, led to notices...
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Mechanical resonance (section Tacoma Narrows Bridge)
bridge can even be destroyed by its resonance (see Broughton Suspension Bridge and Angers Bridge). Mechanical systems store potential energy in different...
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Schrägkettenbrücke". www.bernd-nebel.de. Retrieved 2016-09-02. "Great Yarmouth suspension bridge disaster memorial unveiled". BBC. 28 September 2013. Retrieved 2016-09-02...
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structurally flexible bridge can set it into dangerously large amplitude oscillations. On April 12, 1831, the Broughton Suspension Bridge near Salford, England...
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