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The Fades Viaduct is located close to Les Ancizes-Comps, in the Auvergne region, between the communes of Sauret-Besserve and Les Ancizes-Comps. It spans across the river Sioule. Its construction began on 28 October 1901. From 14 to 16 September 1909 it passed the performance tests, The Fades Viaduct has monumental piers of quarried granite.
Fades viaduct – The tallest traditional masonry piers ever built (92 m). Until the advent of concrete and the use of cast iron and then steel, bridges were made of masonry. Roman bridges were sturdy, semicircular, and rested on thick piers, with a width equal to about half the span of the vault. [2]
In 1855, Charles Mears constructed a 70-foot-wide (21 m) channel from Pentwater Lake to Lake Michigan, lined with timber cribbing, [4] to accommodate his lumbering interests. [5] In 1858, he built a pier extending over 600 feet (180 m) into Lake Michigan where ships could dock. [6] Additional pier structures were built to line the channel. [6]
The State Street Bridge is a two-span, steel, Pratt Through Truss bridge with pinned connections. Each span is 126 feet long, and is supported by concrete abutments on each end and a steel I-beam on concrete piers in the center of the river. The center I-beam replaced an original large concrete pier which was destroyed by ice in 1927.
Name Image Built Listed Location County Type 12 Mile Road–Kalamazoo River Bridge: 1920 1999-12-22 Marshall: Calhoun: Concrete arch 23 Mile Road–Kalamazoo River Bridge
The piers are stone-filled timber cribs, 20 feet (6.1 m) wide, with the exception of the shoreward portion of the south pier, which is constructed of wooden pilings filled with sand. [3] The original piers were wrapped in sheet piling in the 1950s-60s, and the entire structure capped in concrete; the piers now range from 27 feet (8.2 m) to 33 ...
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