This article is about the structure. For the card game variants, see
Contract bridge.
This is a list of different types of bridges.
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| Arch bridge |
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575 meters (Ping'nan Third Bridge, Guangxi, Southern China) |
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| Through arch bridge |
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| Beam bridge (Integral beam bridge)[1] |
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| Log bridge (beam bridge) |
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| Viaduct |
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Cavity wall viaduct |
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| Bowstring arch |
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| Box girder bridge |
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| Cable-stayed bridge |
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1,104 m (Russky Bridge, Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russian Far East) |
10,100 m (Jiashao Bridge, Zhejiang, China) |
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| Cable-stayed suspension bridge hybrid |
Cable-stayed bridge and Suspension bridge |
1,408 m (4,619 ft) |
Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge,[2] Istanbul |
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| Cantilever bridge |
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549 m (Quebec bridge) |
1042.6 m (Forth Bridge) |
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| Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge |
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| Clapper bridge |
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| Covered bridge |
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| Girder bridge |
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| Continuous span girder bridge |
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| Integral bridge |
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| Extradosed bridge |
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1,920 m Arrah–Chhapra Bridge |
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| Moon bridge |
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| Movable bridge |
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| Pigtail bridge |
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| Plate girder bridge |
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| Pontoon bridge |
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| Rigid-frame bridge |
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| Roving bridge |
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| Segmental bridge |
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| Self-anchored suspension bridge |
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| Side-spar cable-stayed bridge |
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| Simple suspension bridge (Inca rope bridge) |
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| Step-stone bridge |
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| Stressed ribbon bridge |
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| Suspension bridge |
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| Transporter bridge |
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| Trestle bridge |
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| Truss arch bridge |
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| Truss bridge |
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Vierendeel bridge |
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Brown truss |
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| Covered bridge |
Burr Arch Truss |
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Lattice truss bridge
(Town lattice truss) |
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| Tubular bridge |
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| Vlotbrug |
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