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The document discusses why piers cannot be placed on steep slopes, how cable-stayed bridges differ from suspension bridges, why not all bridges are cable-stayed, and the main design activities for bridges.

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The document discusses why piers cannot be placed on steep slopes, how cable-stayed bridges differ from suspension bridges, why not all bridges are cable-stayed, and the main design activities for bridges.

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1. Why can’t you place the piers on steep slopes?

• because piers on steep slopes would cause cars to fly


off the bridge and the bridge would tend to collapse
faster.
2. The Millau Viaduct is a cable-stayed brigde.Discuss how it is
different from a suspension bridge.
• It is distinguished from suspension bridges because in
these the main cables are arranged from pile to pile,
supporting the deck by means of vertical secondary
cables, and because suspension bridges work mainly by
traction, and the cable-stayed have parts that work in
tension and others in compression .
3.Why aren’t all bridges cables-stayed bridges?
• because there are bridges that need to reach spans of
more than 1000 meters and the cable-stayed ones do
not achieve it very easily. This could generate in the
cable-stayed bridges problems in their construction and
a possible collapse.
4.Discuss what you think were the main activities during the design.
• The main activities for the design were that the structure
must withstand natural forces such as wind and seismic
activity, as well as its own weight and traffic loads.

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