Construction crews installed 4-ft-dia. piles and 5-ft-thick pile caps to serve as ultra-stiff lateral thrust supports for the shallow arch. Constructing a shallow-arch, clear-span footbridge with ...

Spencer Bridge Engineering’s team will carry out complex replacement of the lateral thrust bearings, which are from the original construction in the early 1960s and are now at the end of their ...

That is, thrust bearings where both end ‘washers’ are groved to form a ball-race, and: one washer is sized to clear the 8mm shaft and fit the 16mm bore, while the other is sized to fit the 8mm shaft ...

At the Forth Road Bridge, which connects Edinburgh to Fife, it will replace ageing lateral thrust bearings dating back to the 1960s. And on the ... The projects will span 2025 and 2026. Glen Smithson, ...