Talk:Beam bridge

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[edit] Doubting the shown image is of a valid beam bridge."A steel pedestrian footbridge over a busy road in Swansea"

The truss seems to do more than just support a fence. For that bridge to be a beam bridge, the floor beam would have to suffice for the bridging. Joefaust (talk) 03:53, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

The reason this is suggested as a beam bridge is that the upper chord is so thin - it would likely have to be much more robust to resist compression forces while the lower chord could in turn be much thinner. I agree that the image is ambiguous and perhaps even inappropriate. Please feel free to obtain and substitute a less ambiguous image of similar application - Leonard G. (talk) 05:09, 3 February 2008 (UTC)