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Abutment

An abutment is the substructure at the ends of a bridge span or dam supporting its superstructure. Single-span bridges have abutments at each end that provide vertical and lateral support for the span, as well as acting as retaining walls to resist lateral movement of the earthen fill of the bridge approach. Multi-span bridges require piers to support…

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BridgeSpanDamSuperstructureFill
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Use

FoundationSlab
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Types

Reinforced Earth
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Abutment

Nodes19
Edges18
Triples8
Avg. degree1.89
Density0.105263
Components1

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related to Types · 4
Abutment → Gravity, Reinforced Earth, Types, U-shaped
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Abutment → substructure at the ends of a bridge span or dam supporting its superstructure
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Abutment → An

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arch abutments support may bridge dam lateral resist span vertical ends supporting bridges also superstructure end retaining walls earthen approach

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Abutmentis asubstructure at the ends of a bridge span or dam supporting its superstructure0.90text
Kurobe Dam in Japan.The civil engineering term may also refer to the structure supporting one side of an archinstance ofbut may be artificial in order to support arch dams0.80text
or masonry used to resist the lateral forces of a vaultinstance ofbut may be artificial in order to support arch dams0.80text
Abutmentrelated to TypesTypes0.60section
Abutmentrelated to TypesGravity0.60section
Abutmentrelated to TypesU-shaped0.60section
Abutmentrelated to TypesReinforced Earth0.60section
Abutmentrelated to UseAn0.60section

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