Japan's Bridges: Utility Bridge in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture

June 2011 (38.163 Degrees, 140.889 Degrees) Utility Bridge in Natori

A utility bridge crossing the same small river as yesterday's viaduct. I would call this structure a variation of the Warren truss, but with a single bottom chord element. In fact, the bottom chord is doing double duty as a pipeline and as the tension member for the truss.

Japan's Bridges: Utility Bridge in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.