Monday, April 5, 2010

Not from campus - Rainbow Bridge, Folsom, CA

It's a picture of a bear that got stuck under a bridge about 100' above the ground - a friend of mine showed me this from the internet. The link is:


The concrete bridge is supported by two arches with beams running perpendicular between them that probably act as stiffeners. The arches work in compression, while the safety net used to lower the bear is a tensile structure where the load stresses form curvatures in the net.

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