Height of bridge piers
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. In masonry bridge piers, there is a resistant part and a filling part: • The periphery of the shafts over a certain thickness constitutes the resistant part, made of dressed stones in the angles and squared or.
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