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	Gibraltar Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The longer the span, the heavier the bridge; at the length required to span the Strait of Gibraltar, a suspension bridge that supports the weight of the roadway with cables spanning from tower to tower would sag and ultimately collapse.
		The bridge's roadway uses the inherent strength of the triangle to protect it from Gibraltar's gales, according to project engineer, Charles Seim.
		The Gibraltar Bridge design supports 3 miles of each 4 1/2 mile span with suspension cables, and the remaining 1 1/2 miles with a cable-stay technique attaching cables to diagonal struts on either side of each tower.
	idol.union.edu /~ferrerf/project/text.htm (1410 words)

	Strait of Gibraltar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Strait of Gibraltar (Arabic: مضيق جبل طارق, Spanish: Estrecho de Gibraltar) is the strait that separates the Atlantic Ocean from the Mediterranean Sea.
		A shot of the Strait of Gibraltar from atop "The Rock" in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.
		On the northern side of the Strait is Spain and Gibraltar, while on the southern side is Morocco and Ceuta, a Spanish exclave in North Africa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Straits_of_Gibraltar (778 words)

	Gibraltar (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gibraltar, a territory to the south of Spain.
		Gibraltar bridge, a conceptual structure spanning the strait of Gibraltar.
		Gibraltar Refinery The CEPSA plant actually in Spain close to Gibraltar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gibraltar_(disambiguation) (150 words)

	The Timeshare Beat: IN Europe with Simone; Gibraltar
		Gibraltar is a beacon which signals the position of the Strait of Gibraltar, the narrow neck which separates Europe from Africa and provides the only link between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
		I began to imagine other gaps that could be bridged: the wealthy to the impoverished, the strong and the healthy to the downtrodden, nation to nation, culture to beautiful culture, and Sir, Mr.
		West of the peninsula is the Bay of Gibraltar, an inlet of the strait.
	www.thetimesharebeat.com /europe/gibraltar.htm (1392 words)

	Prints Old & Rare - Gibraltar page
		The bridge is still standing today and is quite a tourist attraction.Ronda is part of the Andalucia section of Spain.
		The text is about the Fortress of Gibraltar and the wood engraving at the bottom of the page is titled, "View of the Celebra D Stronghold or Fortress of Gibraltar" with ships in the bay and the Rock in the background.
		In the beautifully engraved cartouche is the title "A Plan of the Bay of Gibraltar Survey'd by Michelot & Bremond and Engraved by T. Kitchin Geograph." The depths of the harbors and bay are marked in fathoms and distances are marked in leagues.
	www.printsoldandrare.com /gibraltar (1036 words)

	Gibraltar bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gibraltar bridge is a proposed construction project involving the creation of a bridge spanning the Straits of Gibraltar.
		A joint American and British team of engineers are investigating the feasibility of building a bridge of a combination suspension-truss design.
		The proposed Gibraltar Bridge was featured on an episode of Discovery Channel's Extreme Engineering.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gibraltar_bridge (154 words)

	Strait of Gibraltar
		The bridge is designed to float gracefully on and under the water like a giant, elegant serpent anchored to the cities of Tarifa on the southern coast of Spain to Point Cires on the northern tip of Morocco.
		The bridge is designed to be an experience and destination in itself with an estimated 150,000 to 300,000 traveling daily and 500,000 persons at peak seasons and special days of the year.
		The structure of the bridge is a series of fish-shaped sections, like the vertebrae of a spinal column, which are attached and locked, in overlapping fashion, to one another by giant water-proof cris-crossing cables in four directions.
	www.tdrinc.com /gibraltar.htm (1141 words)

	The NSDL Scout Report for Mathematics, Engineering, & Technology -- Volume 1, Number 8
		Bridges have been drawing plenty of attention lately, with numerous construction projects around the world and the controversy over the deteriorating bridge infrastructure in the US.
		Rice University is the home of the Bridges Project (3), a comprehensive database of "all 74 1,000 ft. span bridges in the United States." For each of these, a short description and construction history are given, and some include photos and other interesting facts.
		The Gibraltar Bridge, a proposed nine mile bridge that connects Europe and Africa, was recently featured on the Discovery Channel's Engineering the Impossible (4).
	scout.cs.wisc.edu /nsdl-reports/met/2002/met-020524-topicindepth.html#1 (422 words)

	Lightweight Bridge Decks Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Today the suspension bridge is King of all bridge types with the newest and the longest, 1998 and nearly 2,000 meters, located in Japan.
		The story of bridges and bridge technologies is fascinating and today we are poised at the beginning of a new advancement.
		The design of 58 bridges for an international contest in 1998 is dealt with, which was the beginning of renewed interest in aluminium bridges.
	www.briskevents.nl /bestanden/bridge/seminar.html (2959 words)

	RTW Leg 116
		Gibraltar is a heavily fortified British air and naval base that guards the Strait of Gibraltar, which is the only entrance to the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean.
		It is spanned, on the west side of the city, by the 25th of April Bridge (formerly called the Salazar Bridge), the longest suspension bridge in western Europe.
		The bridge is not directly accessible at Alcântara, as it crosses the area on tall concrete pillars.
	www.unc.edu /~mackuen/RTW/narr/116.htm (1881 words)

	RADIO BRIDGE OVERSEAS
		The proposed mega-project of a bridge or a tunnel, which is being evaluated in stages, would link Europe with Africa in the early 21st Century.
		This image of a bridge is being used by RBO as a symbol for its proposed Multimedia Bridge between Africa and Europe.
		The Rock of Gibraltar was once one of the two classical Pillars of Hercules, crowned with silver columns by Phoenician mariners to mark the limits of safe navigation for the ancient Mediterranean peoples.
	www.radiobridge.net /www/links/STRAITS.html (625 words)

	What's New! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gibraltar is the gateway to the Mediterranean, a great British fortress ever since it was seized from the Spanish in 1713.
		The first sight of GIBRALTAR as we steamed up the Straits was indeed stirring and I think we all felt proud that we were to form part of this garrison.
		Gibraltar was definitely not prepared to withstand a siege and aerial bombardment.
	www.donlowconcrete.com /CDAC/pages/whatsnew.htm (13199 words)

	Failure Magazine-Archives-Science & Technology-Tacoma Narrows Bridge
		The Golden Gate bridge [1937], New York's Bronx-Whitestone [1939], and Maine's Deer Isle bridge [1939] also demonstrated an alarming tendency to undulate in the wind and all had to be retrofitted with extra cables and/or stiffening devices.
		Ironically, the post-construction behavior of these bridges has been eerily reminiscent of suspension bridges in the 1930s, except that the issue is cable oscillation rather than movement of the roadway.
		A suspension bridge with 500-foot tall towers, 10 million pounds of wire, 25 million pounds of steel plate, and 300,000 yards of concrete that has to be dangled from those towers is a little bit different than a ramp and an overpass," he notes.
	www.failuremag.com /arch_science_tacomanarrows.html (1548 words)

	OPAC Consulting Engineers
		One of the great challenges to the bridge and structural engineering profession is the design and construction of a fixed bridge spanning the Strait of Gibraltar.
		Several bridge configurations were dimensioned, computer models were developed, and were analyzed for static and dynamic characteristics and relative aerodynamic feasibility.
		The bridge types that were studied included classic suspension bridges, cable-stiffened suspension bridges, and Professor Lin’s proposed hybrid stayed-suspension bridge concept.
	www.opacengineers.com /index.php?menu=projectsheet,Gibraltar (218 words)

	Bridge Building
		Bridges must be built strong enough to safely support their own weight as well as the weight of the people and vehicles that pass over it.
		The bridge must be made from simple materials and must be able to support a standard brick (about five pounds).
		Bridges have been an essential part of transportation for hundreds of years, and it is the job of civil engineers to design the safest, most durable bridges possible.
	www.42explore.com /bridge.htm (2250 words)

	Flutter Stability of Very Long Suspension Bridges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As longer suspension bridges are being built and planned around the world, many feasibility problems arise.
		Experiences related with preliminary studies on the Gibraltar Bridge are presented.
		Flutter is considered to be the main feasibility problem for a very-long-span bridge, and it is analyzed in this paper for span lengths ranging from 1,600 to 6,000 m.
	www.pubs.asce.org /WWWdisplay.cgi?9803558 (181 words)

	Walk #162: Braunston to Leamington Spa
		After a couple of hundred yards a bridge is met, and the towpath used this to cross over from the southern to the northern side of the canal.
		After the descent down this short flight the canal turns to head northwestwards, crossing over a bridge that gives access to a new marina and crossing under two road bridge until it reaches the bridge that carries the A426 road over the canal to the north of Stockton.
		The road bridge leads southwestwards to the village of Radford Semele, but the canal continues to the west, passing to the north of the village in the process.
	www.britishwalks.org /walks/2001/162.php (1841 words)

	Gibraltar Rd. / Waterway Canal
		The Gibraltar Road Bridge is eligible for the National Register for the aesthetic quality of the cantilevered concrete T-beam design.
		When the county paved Gibraltar Road in the early 1930s, it erected several new bridges along the route, including a reinforced-concrete cantilevered-arch span over a local canal.
		The bridge is an excellent example of the attractive and creative designs developed by the Wayne County Road Commission.
	www.michigan.gov /mdot/0,1607,7-151-9620_11154_11188-28877--,00.html (115 words)

	Wizbang
		Chirac underscored the national pride stirred by the bridge by lifting a French flag from its ceremonial plaque, followed by air force jets trailing the colors of France.
		It's a bridge, not an aircraft carrier (though one hopes the bridge is better designed and constructed than those carriers the French have built).
		Well, since lawhawk pointed out that the bridge was designed by a Brit, I guess it does represent a "modern and conquering France." Remember the First Rule of French Warfare; "France's armies are victorious only when not led by a Frenchman." I guess the same goes for French engineering.
	wizbangblog.com /archives/004543.php (1867 words)

	Making the Modern World - Is the future of bridges all suspended?
		Recent talk of a road bridge between Europe and Africa, spanning the Straits of Gibraltar, has centred on a slightly different type of suspension bridge from the purely ‘hanging’ form we have discussed so far.
		In the cable stay version of the suspension bridge, the deck is hung from diagonal cables that exert a force towards the towers as well as vertically.
		In some ways, it is the cable-stayed bridge that represents the state-of-the-art in bridge-building at the beginning of the twenty-first century, but, with technology giving us lighter and stiffer materials to build with, there are already all-plastic bridges.
	www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk /learning_modules/maths/02.TU.03?section=9 (389 words)

	Ibanez DT420 Destroyer Electric Guitar - zZounds.com
		The DT420 is built with a Basswood body, QM1 and 2 humbucking pickups, and a Gibraltar II bridge with a Quickchange tailpiece for easy string changes.
		Gibraltar II bridge: This bridge locks down for extra sustain and features a Quickchange tailpiece for easy string changes.
		QM1 (neck) and QM2 (bridge) pickups: Designed specifically to complement the S body, the QM1 is a ceramic magnet humbucker with medium output and full clarity.
	www.zzounds.com /item--IBADT420 (342 words)

	BLOG COMMENTS: Erica L Ridley (.com)
		When we crossed the bridge into Gibraltar, both the Spanish and the British customs agents checked my passport (if you can call briefly glancing to see if I was indeed holding something vaguely passport-shaped actually "checking") and I had the disappointment of once again not getting my passport stampted.
		The rock of Gibraltar is not just a rock - it´s huge, like a mountain.
		There´s the British naval base and a runway for a small airport, and military tunnels within the rock as well as natural caves, which I got to explore.
	www.ericalridley.com /view_diary_comments.asp?diary_uid=66 (690 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: The Fountains of Paradise / Arthur C. Clarke
		Yet it is not outside the realm of engineering possibility, and Clarke makes an excellent case for the viability of such an outré project within the context of a completely engrossing story set in the 22nd century.
		Vannevar Morgan is a reknowned (or infamous, depending on whom you talk to) engineer whose crowning achievement is the construction of a three-kilometer-high bridge spanning the Strait of Gibraltar, linking Spain and Morocco.
		Morgan is shut out from the mountain, and is eventually forced to resign from his position at the firm he made massive with the Gibraltar Bridge.
	www.sfreviews.net /fountains.html (728 words)

	Halfbakery: largest dam ever
		I think what he is getting at is tidal power, since it doesn't seem practical to the water on make one side of the dam evaporate faster than the other.
		Tidal power is a well baked concept, although something on the scale of Gibraltar certainly would set some records.
		Now, there are some projects to build a bridge across Gibraltar (a really huge one) perhaps there's two uses for your idea.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/largest_20dam_20ever (944 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai Mega-Bridge Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Tang said a committee set up to plan the bridge has shortlisted two routes but he refused to reveal further details, adding that a final decision will be made soon.
		The super bridge is expected to handle about 20,000 vehicles each day and will be the fifth cross-boundary link between the mainland and the SAR once it is built.
		He said the bridge's Hong Kong entrance would be at San Shek Wan on Lantau and its Zhuhai entrance would be near the Gongbei checkpoint.
	skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=168110 (1334 words)

	Spanish Countries -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Denmark - with Schleswig-Holstein, Germany - (the island of Zealand is connected to Sweden by the Øresund Bridge)
		Singapore is connected to Johore, Malaysia through a causeway and a bridge.
		sjorford:// 17:13, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC) :Gibraltar and Macao are peninsulas connected to the continent with isthmuses.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/137/spanish-countries.html (907 words)

	eBay.co.uk - Gibraltar, Europe, Topographical Rest of World, Postcards items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gibraltar 1924 Old Colour Tinted Postcard ALAMEDA PARK
		Gibraltar c1900 Old Postcard The Town from the NEW MOLE
		Gibraltar 1911 Postcard Statue Monument & Cannon Canon
	listings.uk.ebay.com /Europe_Gibraltar_W0QQfclZ1QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ2QQsacatZ96826QQsocmdZListingItemList (296 words)

	Ibanez Guitar - BPMmusic.com:Free Shipping Low Price Best Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The S is thin around the edge to give you great comfort, and thick around the neck, pickups and bridge to give you great ton...
		The SC and SCA S Classic axes and the new SZ have evolved into even simpler instruments than their famous S ancestor.
		The S is thin around the edge to give you great comfort, and thick around the neck, pickups and bridge to give you great...
	www.bpmmusic.com /cgi-bin/plist8.cgi?electgtr.dat:Ibanez (2971 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - EXTREME ENGINEERING - Which do you want built?
		A bridge spanning 9 miles over the Straits of Gibraltar at the entryway to the Mediterranean would be the longest and tallest ever built.
		Can't choose, but the best one for my country is the bridge over the street of Gibraltar, so I pick the gibraltar bridge.
		Not the gibraltar bridge, I think they are palning on a tunnel rather.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=131291 (1331 words)

	Lab Notes: Research from the Berkeley College of Engineering
		Even grander is Lin's proposal to bridge the Strait of Gibraltar with two 16,000 foot spans.
		Each of the bridge's cantilevered towers would be 3,000 feet tall, twice the size of the world's tallest skyscraper.
		While the bridge would cost an estimated $15 billion, Lin's proposal is no joke.
	www.coe.berkeley.edu /labnotes/0802/history.html (454 words)

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