Revolutionary New Bridge Design!
Introducing an exiting new revolutionary bridge design called
T h e F l e x i b l e B r i d g e
This revolutionary bridge design has many great aspects to it.
-Flexible
-Cheaper to build
-Modularization
-Lighter truss design -Quicker to construct
- Architecturally stimulating
-No abutments in river
-Generation of electricity
-No high long access ramps
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The bridge's design is quite simple
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I hope to explain it well enough so that any layman can understand it's core concepts.
The bridge is essentially comprised of a number of separate segments. Each segment is a roadway with two tall towers on either end. There is a rotatable hinge that connects one segment to the other. The towers at the end of every segment have a strong magnet placed towards the top. The magnet on one tower is so that it faces the other magnet on the opposing tower, which is part of the adjacent segment. With "likes repelling", these magnets create a repelling force to each other. The following is a close up picture of two segments being attached to each other. Towards the top of the picture are the magnets that repel each other. The rotatable hinge is colored yellow.
The roadway is towards bottom where there is a white line. Between the spaces of the roadway are downward faced spikes that are
designed to keep a continuous driving experience as the bridge flexes,
and moves up and down.
The following is a picture of all the segments attached together creating a arch bridge.
Backdropped by the Manhattan skyline
Having now understood that, imagine how a whole linkage of such segments
would act. The towers on every segment are straight up. The separating force created from the magnets on top of the towers, creates a gap between the towers. The hinges connect the segments on the bottom, and because of the gap between the towers on the top, the whole
linkage of segments form a arch shape.
As the weight upon the
bridge would increase (with the addition of cars) then weight (or rather
a downward force) on the bridge would increase, and the hinges would rotate, that would then
bring the top portion of the repelling magnets atop the towers closer
together. This would then cause the arch shape of the bridge to become
slightly straighter.
The repelling force that the magnets on top of the pair of towers create, define at how much of an angle will the two adjoining segments be to each other. If the repelling force created by the magnets is increased (e.g. by using stronger magnets), then the hinge on the bottom will turn and the angle between the two segments will change.
Here is another picture showing the bridge:
Now you have probably been wondering how the ends of the bridge meet the surface. Here is a picture of how the end abutment would look underground:
As you can see the road continues on top, while there are large underground rollers that are attached via a hinge to the ending segment. As the bridge flexes and becomes straighter with the addition of weight, the rollers move to accomodate.
The rollers are free to roll as the arch of the bridge become more or less defined with the addition of weight such as cars on the bridge, which causes the length of the bridge to increase. The rollers allow for the elongation of the bridge. The rollers also are designed to accept the weight of the bridge. The rollers, as they move, can conceal generators within them that create electricity as they roll.
Realize that even here the spokes provide a continuous road surface to
cars as the bridge flexes.
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a technical explanation:
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The invention concerns an arch structure comprised of adjacent segments that are rotatably attached to each other. In particular, the invention concerns an arch structure comprised of at least two segments in which adjacent segments are linked to each other via hinges or equivalent means to form a continuous bendable chain of attached segments, and adjacent segments rotate relative to each other about an axis. The segments have magnets above the hinge or equivalent means on opposed end faces, positioned to oppose magnets on confronting end faces of adjacent arch segments, with like poles facing one another, thereby creating a repulsion force. The repulsion force inhibits the arch segments from being brought together. Due to this effect, the aggregate of the arch segments define an acruate path (convex upward), maintained by the repulsion forces of the magnets.
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- M. Benjamin Kanner