Beams bridge
This footbridge was made from beams and boards obtained from logs from the surrounding forest.
Ancestor:	Log bridge
Related:	None
Descendant:	Box girder bridge, Plate girder bridge, trestle, truss bridge, moon bridge
Carries:	Pedestrians, automobiles, trucks, light rail, heavy rail
Span range:	Short
Material:	Timber, iron, steel, reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete
Movable:	No
Design effort:	low
Falsework required:	No, unless cast-in place reinforced concrete is used

A beam bridge is a direct descendant of the log bridge, now more normally made from shallow steel 'I' beams, box girders, reinforced concrete, or post-tensioned concrete. It is frequently used in pedestrian bridges and for highway overpasses and flyovers. As is its ancestor, this bridge is in structural terms the simplest of the many bridge types. Photo by Quadell File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... This footbridge was made of trees from the surrounding forest. ... A box girder bridge is a bridge commonly used for roadway flyovers and for modern elevated structures of light rail transport. ... A plate girder bridge is a bridge often seen supporting railroad roadbeds over short spans. ... Steel trestle with plate girder spans A trestle is a bridge that consists of a large number of short spans, supported by splayed vertical elements and is usually for railroad use. ... A truss bridge is a bridge composed of connected elements (typically straight) which may be stressed from tension, compression, or sometimes both in response to dynamic loads. ... A decorative bridge in the Japanese tea garden at Golden Gate Park. ... Look up Pedestrian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Car redirects here. ... For other uses, see Truck (disambiguation). ... This article is about light rail systems in general. ... The term heavy rail is often used for regular railways, to distinguish from systems such as trams/light rail and metro. ... Timber in storage for later processing at a sawmill Timber is a term used to describe wood, either standing or that has been processed for use—from the time trees are felled, to its end product as a material suitable for industrial use—as structural material for construction or wood... General Name, symbol, number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, period, block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Standard atomic weight 55. ... For other uses, see Steel (disambiguation). ... Reinforced concrete at Sainte Jeanne dArc Church (Nice, France): architect Jacques Dror, 1926–1933 Reinforced concrete, also called ferroconcrete in some countries, is concrete in which reinforcement bars (rebars) or fibers have been incorporated to strengthen a material that would otherwise be brittle. ... Traditional reinforced concrete is based on the use of steel reinforcement bars, rebar, inside poured concrete. ... Falseworks are temporary structures used in the building of bridges and other arched structures in order to hold the item in place until its building is sufficiently far advanced to support itself. ... Beam may refer to: Look up beam in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the edifice (including an index to articles on specific bridge types). ... This footbridge was made of trees from the surrounding forest. ... I-beams are beams with an I- or H-shaped cross-section. ... A box girder bridge is a bridge commonly used for roadway flyovers and for modern elevated structures of light rail transport. ... Reinforced concrete at Sainte Jeanne dArc Church (Nice, France): architect Jacques Dror, 1926–1933 Reinforced concrete, also called ferroconcrete in some countries, is concrete in which reinforcement bars (rebars) or fibers have been incorporated to strengthen a material that would otherwise be brittle. ... This article or section should be merged with Prestressed concrete Post-tensioned concrete is the descriptive term for a method of reinforcing concrete by applying compression to poured concrete after the curing process (in situ). ...

Like most bridges that are characterized by how they are supported, beam bridges consist of one horizontal beam with 2 supports usually on either end.

Decorative beam bridges, commonly built from cedar, pine, and redwood, can span a koi pond or country creek. These free standing bridges are usually built as functional walkways or just for decoration. A garden pond. ...

A steel pedestrian footbridge over a busy road in Swansea, typical of many beam bridges (the superstructure supports only the fence, not the bridge).

v • d • e Bridge-related articles
Types of bridges	Moveable bridge · Beam bridge · Cantilever bridge · Arch bridge · Suspension bridge · Cable-stayed bridge · Truss bridge · Visual index to various types
Lists of Bridges	Notable bridges · By length · Longest suspension bridge spans · Largest cable-stayed bridges · Longest cantilever bridges · Arch bridges · Tallest · Bridge disasters