Successor emerges alongside the aging and fragile Waldo-Hancock bridge.
Experience on 30 cable-stayed bridge designs helped FIGG principal bridge engineer W. Denney Pate to create a cradle system that significantly improves bridge maintainability and service life, while creating landmarks through slender, elegant profiles that are efficient to construct. The cradle consists of individual sleeves carrying the strands through the pylon, allowing each strand to act independently. It permits engineers to test new materials, monitor individual strands and swap out individual strands without closing the bridge, which independent testing engineers say will greatly improve ease of inspection and long-term maintenance of cable-stayed bridges. The cradle system has been installed in Maine's Penobscot Narrows Bridge & Observatory and Toledo's Glass City Skyway.
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