{"id":1161,"date":"2012-10-07T15:13:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T13:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2012-10-07T15:13:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T13:13:32","slug":"suspension-bridges-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/2012\/10\/07\/suspension-bridges-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspension Bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f1\/Akashi_Bridge.JPG\/300px-Akashi_Bridge.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nGenerally built over wide waterways, suspension bridges can prove beneficial to modern\u00a0societies economically as their enable trade to occur more efficiently between countries. Suspension bridges span a large gap without restricting water travel of large ships belong them.<\/p>\n<p>Suspension bridges are efficient forms of transporting large loads as their form enables an equilibrium balance of forces that enable them to support the large load. \u00a0They are meticulously engineered to ensure that this\u00a0equilibrium\u00a0is present as otherwise an instability could lead to their destruction.\u00a0The added flexibility of suspension bridges allows them to flex under the power of winds and earthquakes.\u00a0During construction, temporary central supports do not need to be built, and access to the construction is not required from beneath. This means busy roadways and waterways do not need to be disrupted.<\/p>\n<p>However, a suspension bridge often entails a large opportunity cost to the country as it costs them billions of dollars to build, usually acquired through taxation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally built over wide waterways, suspension bridges can prove beneficial to modern\u00a0societies economically as their enable trade to occur more efficiently between countries. Suspension bridges span a large gap without restricting water travel of large ships belong them. Suspension bridges are efficient forms of transporting large loads as their form enables an equilibrium balance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}