These REAL BRIDGES push my engineering skills in Poly Bridge 3!
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2023
- Poly Bridge 3 (pb3) is finally here, and with 10 years of professional civil engineering experience, who better than to take you though the brand new poly bridge game!? This time I recreate three randomly selected bridges in Poly Bridge 3!
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can you build a bridge between my parents so they love each other again
You wanna talk mate
Rip
nah thats crazy😮
Bro💀
Build a bridge and get over it
My grandpa is a civil engineer and he made the plans for the foundations for both the Storebælt bridge and Öresund bridge - it's nice to see you remake them in Polybridge and explain how they work :D
Your pronunciation was surprisingly good btw! Only thing is "Broen" = "The bridge" so you basically called it the Green belt bridge bridge lol...
bro had the 'Chai Tea' moment and he took it
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
I was abt to comment that he said *bridge bridge"
Moon moon of bridges
I am a long-time Portuguese subscriber that started to appreciate the beauty of our bridges thanks to your content, so it's extremely gratifying to see you build the gorgeous Dom Luís I Bridge! Thank you RCE!
I was a bit confused by the "GREEN Belt Bridge" - it's actually the Great Belt Bridge. I crossed it last year and its pretty scary when you do that for the first time, especially when it's windy and dark. These 6km really felt like an eternity. But it looks really impressive!
For any math nerds wondering, the curve, that a cable between two anchors falls is called a catenary curve (it's function is cosh(x)), which sort of looks like a parabola but is actually an exponential.
You know what, that *does* come in handy for a little project I'm working on. Cheers, mate!
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You just gave me PTSD from my studies..
@@Real_Claudy_Focan lol
Only when it’s unloaded… ie supporting only its own weight. In the case of suspension bridges where the vertical loading is far higher than the weight of the cable, it forms a parabola.
You actually did ok with the pronunciation of Storebæltsbroen. But alas, you said the english name wrong. It's not the Green Belt Bridge, its the Great Belt Bridge.
Very accurate recreation, used to drive over that thing twice a week for a few years. Thumbs up.
Ahh so it was him that was wrong, I did get VERY confused when he said green belt... that name made no sense. Which does make it hilarious that he technically, pronounced the Danish name better than the English one :D
But yeah really impressive pronunciation of Storebæltsbroen really
Oops, not sure why my brain saw great but read it as green 😅 apologies!
@@RealCivilEngineerGamingyour official apology to Denmark hereby accepted 👍🏼
I used to live right beside the forth rail bridge. You kinda get used to it as a kid, but it really is impressive to see up close. It's massive and it's still cool to go over on the way to Edinburgh.
With the way the road was responding to the cables not starting in the catenary shape, that last bridge reminded me a little of Galloping Gertie, the first Tacoma Narrows bridge.
itd be fun to see how polybridge handles the world's shortest suspension bridge, literally called the Wiggly Bridge, in York, Maine
The "Harbor Bridge" in South Texas gets a lot of love from locals. It would be awesome to see you recreate it in this game.
Are you referring to the original Harbor Bridge or the new one? They're both cool, just wondering
@Kevin-Schmevin I had actually forgotten that there was a new one being built since they had to extend the completion date due to fixing FIGG's flaws in the design.
I'd personally prefer the old one as a cheeky send-off before it's demolished.
@jonathon422 great suggestion, I studied engineering at Texas A&M and drove across that bridge a few times, it would be awesome to see it in one of these videos.
As a local, I definitely approve.
I drive across the old one a few times a week. When the new one opens I picture cars sitting at the bottom like penguins at the edge of the ice waiting for some else to be the first to jump in or in this case cross the thing.
Greetings from Brazil mate! Here are some famous Brazilian bridges to add to the wheel:
- Ponte (bridge) Octávio Frias de Oliveira
- Ponte Juscelino Kubitschek
- Ponte Hercílio Cruz
- And the most famous (but least interesting) Ponte Rio-Niteroi
Hope you see this! These vids are awesome!
You can make a full video with Brazil's bridges! 😁
tem a Rio-Niteroi na roleta ali já mano, mas ótimas recomendações
Real BILF for a next episode: Rendsburger Hochbrücke
Some background on this lovely BILF. In the beginning of May this year I went on a vacation with a group of friends from my study (Mechanical Engineers mostly). On our journey to the vacation location we visited several awesome spots, one of which was this awesome bridge in Germany. The Rendsburger Hochbrücke was build in 1913, and has a train line running over the top and a 'floating ferry' underneeth. The total lenght of this BILF is 2,486 metres (8,156 ft), and its longest span is 140 metres (460 ft).
Also, great video Matt! (and editors ;) ) Looking forward to the next one!
Portugal mentioned!!!
Thanks for all the content and fun you've given us!
As a Belgian, I'll choose 2 bridges not in Belgium:
- Grand Duchess Charlotte Bridge (aka Red Bridge) in Luxembourg, capital of Luxembourg. I would like to see how you build that in PB3
- Erasmus-bridge in Rotterdam in The Netherlands. Cable stayed bridge with an interesting pylon shape, where the pylon looks a person pulling on a rope. Could you make it work with working bascule?
Bonus: a modern Belgian bridge engineer I'm a big fan of: Ney & Partners. Especially "De Lichtlijn" bridge looks like a big elastic bridge that follows the tensions... To hard to make in PB3.
Loving this series! Made me look into bridges I didn't know much about.
I challenge you (though it might not be possible) to recreate the Mystic River Bascule Bridge!
Also the East Haddam Swing Bridge is incredible!
A suggestion for next time: The Hochdonn high bridge in north Germany. It’s a 2,220 meter long, 42 meter high railway bridge above a huge canal
Ist das die Rendsburger Hochbrücke?
I would like to see that and the 1915 Canakkale Bridge which has the longest span by now.
@@Sir_RheilfforddDie, die er meint heißt auch auf deutsch Hochbrücke Hochdonn, eine Eisenbahnbrücke. Aber die Rendsburger Brücke wär auch schön!
@@datpudding5338 ah danke 👍
Matt you need to try the Mackinac Bridge from Michigan. It connects the lower peninsula to the upper peninsula and is one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. And it has a nice under-truss. Everyone loves an under-truss.
I remember going across that when I went to Mackinac island in summer. That's going back to the 1990's... 😵
I saw it on the wheel, so there's a chance!
Great bridge, as a michigander I feel great unearned pride for that bridge. Also love driving over it every summer during my vacation up north
my great grandma lives right there in a small town on the shores next to the mackinac bridge and i can say for myself... it is beautiful
The Eads Bridge is a BILF!
The Eads Bridge, is considered a masterpiece of engineering and a true American icon. Completed in 1874 at a cost of almost $10 million (a significant sum at the time), it was the first bridge to span the Mississippi River and the first to employ steel as its primary material. Designed by the renowned civil engineer James Buchanan Eads, the bridge is a stunning example of 19th century engineering. It spans 6,442 feet across the Mississippi River.
Bridge of Lions, St. Augustine, FL, USA. It's a fairly old bridge (kinda... they recently were forced to rebuild it due to deterioration due to age, but they stayed true to the original in a restoration effort). It's not super fancy, but it does have a drawbridge, which i thought would be fun. St. Augustine is the oldest city in the USA, at 457 years old, though the bridge of lions isn't quite as old as the city, it's still 96 years old. The bridge gets its name from 2 marble lions on one side of the bridge and 2 granite lions on the other side.
The term for the hanging shape the main cables on a suspension bridge (or any other sort of cable or chain too) make is catenary. I think Poly Bridge is giving you something like parabolas, which can be close, but they are definitely quite different.
We need a mod that creates catenaries!
Yes, with the tangents locked I suspect they are indeed parabolas.
This is true only if the cable is uniform thickness, and not subject to external forces, so simple chains of cables in game should settle into a catenary, but the moment you hang a bridge from them, that won't be quite right anymore. It will still be close though!
I believe the ones in Poly Bridge are Bezier curves
From the way PB generates the curve based on two control points, I would assume they are cubic Beziers. Parabolas are quadratic Beziers, which are a special case of cubics. The case where you get parabolas isn't the "locked tangents" case though (that can still create loops by crossing the control points over by enough, which cannot possibly be parabolic).
If you want to get a parabolic arc: look at the straight line from one end to the control point and imagine extending it by half as long again to reach a new point*. If doing that from each end would land you on the same point, you are good for a parabola.
...Which, even though I hadn't mathed it out before, is pretty close to how I tend to do my arches in PB, even though youtubers seem to often put the controls much closer together or even slightly overlapping. And since a parabola _is_ very close to a catenary... am I accidentally good at this game?
*does imagining the line as a maximum (50%) expanding hydraulic make this clearer to PB viewers?
I loved the GREAT belt bridge from Denmark. And your pronunciation was decent. Fun fact: the bridge has one of the highest arches for any suspension bridge because it's considered an international strait and needs to allow really tall ships and oil rigs to be sailed through.
I would like to add that there is a parallel running rail tunnel in the same place, that was built at the same time. The incline on the bridge is so steep that it was decided to run the trains underground instead.
Extra fact about the rail tunnel: To make the incline sufficiently shallow the tunnel takes a slightly longer route with a turn in the middle. In the end the incline was still steep enough that a goods train got stuck down there as it couldn’t get up.
Portland, Oregon has some really nice bridges I'd like to see you try building. Including the St Johns Bridge which is a suspension bridge that was the highest bridge in North America when built (which they built because it was cheaper than a drawbridge-a very Poly Bridge motivation), the Steel Bridge (which has two independent vertical lift decks, and is named that because at the time most bridges were built out of cast iron) and the Fremont Bridge (a tied-arch bridge, which is a type you've never talked about on this channel as far as I remember).
This is my favorite series Matt does. Real bridges are so cool.
The wobbling of the Green Belt Bridge made me want to see the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
He did get the name of our glorious Danish bridge wrong though, It is "Great Belt Bridge", not Green. and it is probably our most important bridge, as it connects our biggest island(Zealand) and 2nd biggest island(Funen) together (and then we have a "Little Belt Bridge", connecting Funen to Jytland, that have our only real landborder (for German)), which those 3 land masses makes up the vast majority of the country
We do have another big bridge as well connecting Zealand to Sweden, for a 2nd drivable border, but not technically a land border). And then ofc a wealth of other smaller bridges and ferry routes to get to the smaller islands, which we do have a lot of as well(At least for the size of the country)
@@GummieI The bridge to Skåne is for the invasion next time Sweden are distracted. Or so a Swede told me.
Four bridges in Japan that I crossed/visited in 2021:
The Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge--明石海峡大橋
The Great Seto Bridge--瀬戸大橋
The Oonaruto Bridge--大鳴門橋
Kurushima-Kaikyou Bridge (technically three bridges linked together)--来島海峡三橋
Every one of them is several kilometers in length, so probably a stretch for this game.
who cares?
@@enginebutton797 I do
@@enginebutton797me too
@@enginebutton797bro... Do we care about you is the real question 😂
@@Tyuf_ then don't say it to me
You should do the Mackinac Bridge which connects lower Michigan to upper Michigan
I have two suggestions from North Wales;
Seeing the Menai suspension bridge (built 1819-1826) would be amazing. It was designed by Thomas Telford and was the world’s first major suspension bridge and the longest of its time.
Either that or the Conwy suspension bridge, also by Telford, built at the same time (1822-1826).This one was one of the first road suspension bridges in the world. (Conwy’s bridge also fits the in game span limit)
A very iconic bridge I quite like is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. You could even pass off any breaks as just being consistent with the real bridge XD
I'd love to see that too. I tried to create it, and it went about as well as the original 1940 bridge
Edit: I tried to create the replacement 1950 bridge, which is nicknamed Sturdy Gurdy
One of the other tricky bits about the Narrows (besides the wind :) ) is that Puget Sound is like 200 ft deep there, which is significant when you're bridging (though one of the shallower parts of the Sound)
It would be fun if he tried to get it to mimic the movement without it breaking! I wonder if it would be possible in this game using springs
"Heróis do Mar", as my portuguese people would say. Brilliant video by the way. Keep the great job and feel free to decrease the lack of engineers in Portugal😂
Portugal caralho
If you want to do another cantilever bridge, the Royal Alexandra Interprovincial Bridge here in Ottawa/Gatineau always spooked me as a kid whenever I went on trips to Québec since the lane into Québec just, like, isn’t paved?? And would vibrate the shit outta the car?? Just imagine being like, 7, on your way to have a blast out-of-province and suddenly there’s a THUMP then VVVVVVVVVVRRR as you’re crossing a bridge. Wild.
Edit: Alternatively, apparently the Québec Bridge is the longest cantilever bridge in the world atm, so there’s a probably better recommendation.
How about the *Charles Bridge* in Prague, Czechia. It’s a medieval arch bridge built in 1402, and it still works perfectly fine to this day, surviving multiple disastrous floods. Loving these videos RCE!
Hey RCE, I really loved to see a portuguese bridge in one of your videos. And I am even happier than it happened to be the Luis I brigde wich is one of the best looking and engineered in Portugal, designed by Gustave Eiffel the creator of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Hell yeah, made my week
Yep coincidentally i went there last week too
The Macanac Bridge in Northern Michigan would be fun to watch! It's a 5-mile bridge connecting the upper and lower peninsula and is the border between lake Michigan and Huron.
i’m 14 and i want to be a civil engineer when i grow up and your the reason for that i’ve been watching your videos for a good 3 years now and thank you.
Storebæltsbroen consists of four different parts.
Store: wich meand big (there is also a lille(small)bæltsbroen.
Bælt: I Think its just the name of the water it cross.
Bro: Wich means bridge.
En: It is just something we put on the back of our words if we talk about something specific, like when you say “the”.
Do the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, also known as Galloping Gertie. It collapsed pretty quickly so it couldn’t be that hard. Plus you could fix it
Would be amazing to see you try to build the Slauerhoffbrug in The Netherlands! Would definetely be the weirdest bridge you've ever recreated.
He made it in polybridge 2 ages ago, if you want to go looking for that.
Wouldn't stop him from trying again since I think some of these bridges are repeats too.
hhmm hadn't seen this comment, I suggested it as well together with the Python bridge in Amsterdam.
i havent been up to date with many poly bridge 3 videos, but i caught this one and it was a treat to see you have some many tools in the new title to be able to complete these recreations!
Add the Verrazzano Bridge to the wheel. I find it very appealing and it is a bridge that I often cross. It is a suspension bridge connecting Brooklyn to Staten Island in New York with two layers of road.
Not sure if it's in the wheel already, but I'd love to see the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan, USA. Super cool bridge and sounds like it would be fun to build here.
I paused and looked for this one. It is on the wheel
Would love to see a side by side of the real bridge and yours when you finish building them, with you pointing out differences etc.
As a dane it was nice to see Storebæltsbroen! Fun fact: it was promised that once the bridge had accumulated an income equal to the budget to build it (about 2.5 billion pounds) it would become free to drive on! About 5 billion pounds in income later, we’re still waiting on that promise :,(
The Viaduc de Millau in France is an exceptionnal bridge, has lenght of 2.4 km and his high is 340 meters. That will be interesting to do it in Poly Bridge !
The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Bridge in Wilhelmshaven, Germany is pretty nice
You should have a look on it opening up.
Both halfs of the bridge swivel on their tower foundation.
I know, the opening isn't possible in polybridge, but i think it's worth a look outside of videos.
Here an upvote. Pics on Google looks nice!
I'd love to see you recreate one of Pittsburgh's bridges. We have a bunch to choose front, but my favorite is the Smithfield Street Bridge with its helix design.
I visited Pittsburgh a few years ago for a wedding, and there are a lot of cool bridges there, and that Smithfield Street Bridge is definitely up there.
It's the oldest steel bridge in the USA! Absolutely worth a build
In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil we have the Rio-Niteroi Bridge, it's huge, it does a big turn and, in a part, it goes up and down so that large ships can go underneath.
I was going to suggest it
vim aqui procurando por um BR, estou feliz de ter achado
Tsing Ma Bridge is a bridge in Hong Kong. It is the world's 16th-longest span suspension bridge, and was the second longest at time of completion.[3] The bridge was named after the two islands it connects, namely Tsing Yi and Ma Wan. It has two decks and carries both road and rail traffic, which also makes it the largest suspension bridge of this type. The bridge has a main span of 1,377 metres (4,518 ft) and a height of 206 metres (676 ft). The span is the longest of all bridges in the world carrying rail traffic.
An awesome Bridge for you to check out is the Fort Madison Bridge. It’s a swing bridge with cars on top and trains below. The bridge swings out of the way to allow river traffic through. Obviously the swing function would not be able to be portrayed in poly bridge. I just think it’s a really neat bridge. We used to go watch the trains and the tug boats pushing barges. Was always satisfying watching the bridge swing.
You should do the Puente de Triana (the official name is Puente de Isabel II) in Sevilla, Spain. It's not as impressive as the ones shown here because of their size, but it has a lot of history behind it and is the most iconic bridge of my city.
i saw the fourth rail bridge on christmas day in scotland when i was on my dad's ship (RFA Fort Victoria) truly a sight to behold, i also went under it in a car and stood next to it, also saw a train going over it, such an amazing bridge.
edit: this was in 2022
I thought this was a rail bridge that is in Alberta I think
but not the third or second one?
lol
That's awesome, as a native I've been across this bridge plenty, well, mostly the road bridge next to it but never had the pleasure of going under it on a boat yet.
just to let you know it's Forth not Fourth, it's not a number, easy to mistake unless you know but it gets it's name as it spans across the Firth of Forth
@@KevHCloud
Did you know that the Forth bridge is actually the fifth bridge to croth the Firth of Forth? The firth, thecond, thirth, and fourth bridges having been completely under built, being that they weren't built at all, but are completely fictitious?
As a Portuguese, I'm immensely happy for the 1st bridge!! It looks very similar!
And a very good detail by adding the little accent over the "i" in Luís!
Here are 2 bridges from Melbourne, Australia I would like to add
- Bolte Bridge - A bridge easily visible from Docklands and Marvel Stadium.
- West Gate Bridge - The bridge that goes across the docks of Melbourne and Yarra River and is right outside Southbank and the Melbourne CBD.
You should try the Lions Gate Bridge from Vancouver Canada, the terrain on either end is different so it may look kinda cool compared to some of the more symmetrical ones
You should do the Mackinac Bridge that connects Michigan's upper and lower peninsula. It's a little over 8km long and is the longest suspension bridge between anchorages in the western hemisphere!
The Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge. It's a lift bridge in Duluth Minnesota at the entrance to the Duluth Port. Super cool bridge built right before ww2 and its on the National Registry of Historic Places. It takes about a minuet to lift it all the way up (135ft). The bridge has a horn on it because there is a customary horn-sequence it has with all ships and a special sequence for the SS Arthur M. Anderson because she was the last ship to see the Edmund Fitzgerald on the night she sank.
It's a much smaller bridge, but I love the Dafne Schippersbrug in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Named after an Olympic runner, this bridge is for pedestrians, joggers and bicycles only! It is asymmetric suspension bridge that ends at slightly different heights, with the eastern side leaning on the top of a school!
Drawbridge over Regalica in Poland
The only construction of this type in Europe using a mechanical system - it using weight to stand ( like strongest shape!! )
Strongest shape seems to be overpowered in this BILF
@@ArcyHafta really 😅 the counterweight looks very similar...
Would love to see the Samuel Beckett Bridge in Dublin, Ireland built in Polybridge. It is not very long with a span of 123 metres (so you don’t need to scale it) and its shape is very interesting that looks like the instrument harp
Googled it, looks nice indeed!
7:36 : Matt: "Unlimited height foundations modifier? That won't help at ALL!"
You know it’s a good day when you get home from work & you see you got a new RCE Poly Bridge video. Suggestion: the Bay Bridge in queen annes county Maryland. Though it does have a curve in it so not sure how that would work lol
Bridge is love bridge is life.
It would be cool to see you build a lift bridge, some suggestions would be the aerial lift bridge in Duluth or the portage canal lift bridge in houghton/hancock
For sure I saw that on the wheel when I paused it. The dual driving surface on the Portage Lift Bridge definitely makes it different.
I vote for the Bolte Bridge in Melbourne. Basically a bilf with architect's 'support' pillars which aren't connected to anything.
"The bridge features two 140 metre high silver (grey concrete) towers, situated on either side of the roadway at the midpoint of the bridge's span. These two towers are an aesthetic addition by the architects, and are not joined to the main body of the bridge."
Two suggestions for Dutch bridges.
1: The "Python bridge" in Amsterdam (a real RealCivilEngineer type of bridge.. trusses galore
2: the Slauerhoff bridge in Eindhoven... one of the weirdest bridges you ever seen... will need hydraulics though
Glad the Portuguese bridge doesn't have an hydraulic phase
i would love to see you trying to make the longest bridge possible
Port Mann bridge, Lion’s gate bridge, Second Narrow’s bridge and Pattelo bridge (not sure if spelled correctly for that one) are all very neat bridges in Vancouver
Nipigon river bridge in Canada. It's a simple cable stayed bridge but it's got a cool history. When the second bridge section was under construction the roadway lifted on the open side and shut down the bridge for almost 2 weeks. Basically cutting Canada in half and halting all vehicle traffic as no other roadways cross the river.
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If you want to know the first bridge is Luis I Bridge, the second is Fourth Bridge, the third is Green Belt Bridge. Hope this helps!
You should definitely try to build the pont de Québec (Quebec bridge). Its history is pretty interesting (it failed twice during construction). Its also the longest cantilever bridge in the world.
the fact you're willing to paint the whole thing in blue is why I love you.
Would love to see the Second Narrows Bridge from Vancouver!
Hi Matt, amazing video as always, keep up the great work! you should attempt to build the world's largest tensegrity structure, the Kurilpa bridge located in south-east Brisbane, it's a marvellous bridge and I have even had the pleasure to walk across it and admire its beauty in person. I promise you it's not a work of architecture and is in fact a huge feat of engineering!
I would like to see him make a tensegrity bridge :-)
6:10 I have a painting of this bridge in my living room with the city of Porto (where it is located) behind it :)
My dad is Portuguese AND YOU MADE A PORTUGUESE BRIDGE!!
Another Scottish railway bridge that you could build is the Tay Bridge. The original collapsed with a train on it during high winds in 1879. The replacement uses upper and lower trusses in the middle and its a real long boi, so it might be a fun build.
As soon as you put in those first four foundations I knew it would be The Forth Rail. Iconic bridge.
Actually, your Danish was quite a lot better than your English translation of Storebæltsbroen - great build btw, I recognised it right away. You'd translate it to Great Belt Bridge and not Green Belt Bridge :D
Funny story about that bridge. It opened in 1999 (before that there was a ferry). My x-husband is also an engineer and we crossed the newly built Great Belt Bridge going on our honeymoon. And he wanted so badly to really look at the bridge and study it carefully for his first crossing of it so I agreed to drive over it for the very first drive. Turns out there was an issue with the payment station at the end of the bridge and we ended up being in a queue all the way on the suspension bridge - driving no more than 20 km/h at any point - so he definitely got to see all the details of the bridge... in slow motion :D
Did you know that there's a whole extra section of the bridge called the West Bridge. The one you built is called the East Bridge - and in between the two parts they anchor to an island called Sprogø. The West Bridge is a box-girder bridge that is both for cars and trains. And for the suspension part the trains go down into a tunnel while the cars cross the suspension bridge :)
If you're up for a challenge translating a weird bridge into game format... The Kurilpa bridge in brisbane (or as we call it the daddy longlegs bridge) is the world's largest hybrid tensegrity bridge. a huge portion of its strength comes from the tension of steel cables pulling against each other, actually a little bit like the cable muscles you put together here.
What about building the world's longest single-span bridge (229 meters) dedicated exclusively to carrying pedestrians and cyclists? Its an arch bridge called the "Three Countries Bridge" (France, Germany, Switzerland) that crosses the Rhine.
What about adding a tram bridge to the wheel? It's called the Beatus-Rhenanus bridge and (I'm not sure how to describe it) it's a 290 meters double bow-string double arch tram-pedestrians-cyclists bridge that crosses the Rhine between Strasbourg and Kehl.
PS: Can't wait for the Millau Viaduct!
This is my new favorite series
I saw the mystic (New England) cantilever bridge, and may I say, it’s awesome. It lifts up for every single boat. Engineering is awesome. You should try to build that! (Sorry I’m late!)
The Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge is a 164.8km (102.4 mi) long. Now obviously the bridge itself isn't super fancy beyond it's length but that is where the challenge lies! Make a bridge in Poly Bridge 3 where the car drives across a bridge the full scale 164.8km! If u want an even greater challenge have the car drive only 164.8km so it can't be infinitely looping. This is the challenge I pose!... Unless ur just an architect.
this is my favorite kind of content you put out, I love it so much
I’d like to see the Mackinac Bridge please!
You absolutely nailed the name of storebæltsbroen!
Except the last part after "Sto".
Your channel is my first ever contact with engineering in any form and It's been a while since a new topic got me so interested in it.
The Rio-Niterói Bridge is almost 13 kilometers long and has a central span of 300 meters. The work took just over six years and was delivered in 1974. At the time of opening, it was the second largest in the world. Currently, it remains the largest in concrete in the Southern Hemisphere and the eleventh largest in the world. The bridge has the longest straight span in the world.
Please include Alamillo Bridge, Seville, Spain! :)
Keep up the construction work!! And give Paddy a cookie pls...
Bridge idea: South Grand Island Bridge by Niagara Falls. Lots of arches and lots of steel.
I have a bridge for you to add to your wheel Mat: The Lethbridge Viaduct. It's an old railway bridge that was completed in 1909. It's a 1,624 m long, 95.7 M tall steel trestle bridge! It's the longest and highest trestle bridge in the world! And trains still use the bridge too!
Hi! There is a bridge in my town it`s name is 'Kryukiv Bridge'. In most part it is as simple as possible, just a bunch of trusses, but there is a part in the middle which raises straight up as ships come under. Also its a double deck bridge. Cars a going on top and trains on the lower deck
Please do the Tsing Ma Bridge in Hong Kong at 1377m(4518ft), making it the world's longest combined railway/car suspension bridge and it connects Lantau Island and Hong Kong Island which serves as a connection between the main parts of Hong Kong to the Airport offshore on a man-made island. This is also the longest bridge fully in Hong Kong and also getting lots of love from locals including me, this bridge has been part of my childhood when we were going out of Hong Kong for a vacation and crossing this bridge and looking and it's high suspension pillars and grand cables connecting made me shiver out of excitment, so I beg you to do it just for experiencing it one time.
The architecture of the Göltzsch Viaduct ("Göltzschtalbrücke") in Greiz, Germany would be pretty cool to see in this game!
Regarding the Big Belt Bridge and big ol' boats passing beneath it, it wasn't too long ago that a Finnish made cruise ship, "Allure of the Seas", sailed under it, but, it was so big that they had to engineer the smokestacks so they could retract while going under it.
I am happy to see Storebæltsbroen, your pronunciation was pretty good, in Danish we have a habit of swallowing a lot of the letters, so it was more accurate than most would think.
I think you should add Hålogalandsbrua, its a brige in Narvik, Norway. It's a suspension-bridge with a total lengt of 1533 meters and a span of 1145 meters. i mean if you take the whole length in to account its the longest suspension-bridge ;). I would really like to se you build it, its an awsome bridge, especially when its dark out and all of the ligths on it are on. love your videos so much.
You should build the Göltschtalbrücke ( Göltschtal bridge ) from Germany, it's a beautiful brickbuilt super-BILF!
I would love to see you try recreating some Hungarian bridges!
For example, the Széchenyi Chain Bridge (one of, if not the most beautiful bridge in the world, though I am obviously biased), or the Margaret Bridge, or the Liberty Bridge (another favourite of mine), or the more modern Rákóczi Bridge, or perhaps the Pentele Bridge.
"Sorry kids!" shouted the engineer gleefully, as he watched a bus filled with kids plummet into the water.
In a bit of horrendous news today, the Stolbourgshipbreeanburren experienced a catastrophic collapse on its first day of operation. The engineer who designed the bridge was invited to watch as a schoolbus filled with children made the maiden trip accross the bridge. Calamity struck as soon as the bus reached the first part of the birdge that was suspended via cables. Onlookers could only watch in horror as the sound of cables snapping rang through the air. The road gave way soon after and the bus could not be stopped in time. Many reported the engineer shouting "sorry kids!" as the bus sank to its watery grave. Others reported seeing the bridge sway and oscillate ominously the day before the bridge was to be opened. When asked for a response, the engineer started blaming architects and insisted that the failure was due to the fact people were unwilling to make use of what he called "the strongest shape". As of yet, it is unknown to which shape in particular he was referring.