cable-stayed

Cantilever wings require a much heavier spar than would otherwise be needed in cable-stayed designs.

Transition Team Update - NASA Watch 2009

The bridge will be cable-stayed, with tall towers like a suspension bridge, except that the cables supporting its deck will fan down diagonally from its tall piers rather than hang vertically from draped support cables.

Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

Aecom: The Sutong Bridge, the world's longest cable-stayed bridge, which connects Suzhou and Nantong, China, across the Yangtze River

Tishman, Aecom Projects 2010

More like a spiderweb than a clothesline, a cable-stayed structure relies on hundreds of simultaneous mathematical equations—essentially, computer modeling.

Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

A cable-stayed bridge has a sharp, angular, and vaguely futuristic look, much less lyrical than the swooping arcs of a suspension bridge.

Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

But the beauty of the cable-stayed bridge is its simplicity and efficiency, virtues that made the design popular in Europe after World War II when countries had to rebuild their infrastructure quickly and cheaply.

Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

Either way it is the planning, testing, and assembly of a new instance of a known technology; not the “invention” of the cable-stayed bridge or the aircraft, but the design and construction of a new version of the cable-stayed bridge, say, the Tatara Bridge in Japan; or a new version of the Airbus.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

When we speak of a technology—the cable-stayed bridge, say—are we speaking of it as an instance of a specific device or method (the Pont de Normandie bridge in France, say), or as the idea of that device or method (the concept of the cable-stayed bridge)?

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

Elements that share a common purpose group together: the cables of cable-stayed bridges require anchoring devices, and these in turn require certain heavy-duty bolts; so cables, anchors, and bolt assemblies go naturally together.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

With 977-foot towers linking 5,236 feet of bridge, Stonecutters is one of the world's longest cable-stayed bridges.

Thwarting Disaster: Bridges That Can Withstand Anything Candice Chan 2009