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Skew bridge

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a bridge built obliquely from bank to bank, as sometimes required in railway engineering.
See under Bridge, n.

See also: Bridge Skew



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com COVER picture: Petrie's painting of Stephenson's Rocket at Rainhill's Skew Bridge, 1830.
The 32-year-old, from Tivoli in Cork city, was driving home when he crashed at the Skew Bridge on the Lower Glanmire Road just yards away from his mother Eilise's house.
Some special structures also suffered atypical damage, such as excessive rotation of a skew bridge on pin-ended columns and the loss of seismic energy dissipators in a cable-stayed bridge, because of the failure of a wind shoe, a device to control bridge sway.
 
 
 
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