Deck Arch

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Arch Bridges - Types of Arch Bridge - Deck Arch Bridge
... These Harlem River bridges are all supported deck arch bridges The center span of the deck of the Fremont Bridge is suspended and the deck acts as a tie, while ... The area between the arch and the deck is known as the spandrel ... usually the case in a masonry or stone arch bridge, the bridge is called a closed-spandrel arch bridge ...

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    “Dark accurate plunger down the successive knell
    Of arch on arch, where ogives burst a red
    Reverberance of hail upon the dead
    Thunder like an exploding crucible!”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

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    Who on a tilting deck sings
    To keep men’s courage up, though the wake hangs
    That shall cut off their sun.”
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