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    Bearings are critical structural components that transmit loads from a bridge's superstructure to its substructure while accommodating relative movements between the two, such as those from temperature variation, deflection, and settling. They come in fixed and expansion types, with the latter allowing both rotation and translation to account for reversible effects like thermal expansion as well as irreversible movements from creeping, shrinking, and subsiding. Properly designed bearings ensure substructure stresses remain within permissible limits during all phases of the bridge's usage.

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    Bearings are critical structural components that transmit loads from a bridge's superstructure to its substructure while accommodating relative movements between the two, such as those from temperature variation, deflection, and settling. They come in fixed and expansion types, with the latter allowing both rotation and translation to account for reversible effects like thermal expansion as well as irreversible movements from creeping, shrinking, and subsiding. Properly designed bearings ensure substructure stresses remain within permissible limits during all phases of the bridge's usage.

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    Bearings are critical structural components that transmit loads from a bridge's superstructure to its substructure while accommodating relative movements between the two, such as those from temperature variation, deflection, and settling. They come in fixed and expansion types, with the latter allowing both rotation and translation to account for reversible effects like thermal expansion as well as irreversible movements from creeping, shrinking, and subsiding. Properly designed bearings ensure substructure stresses remain within permissible limits during all phases of the bridge's usage.

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    Bearings are critical structural components that transmit loads from a bridge's superstructure to its substructure while accommodating relative movements between the two, such as those from temperature variation, deflection, and settling. They come in fixed and expansion types, with the latter allowing both rotation and translation to account for reversible effects like thermal expansion as well as irreversible movements from creeping, shrinking, and subsiding. Properly designed bearings ensure substructure stresses remain within permissible limits during all phases of the bridge's usage.

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    Importance of bearings

    Bearings are provided in bridges to transmit the load from the super-structure to
    the sub-structure in such a manner that the bearing stresses induced in the
    substructure are within permissible limits.
    They should also accommodate certain relative movements between the superstructure
    and the sub structure.

    Importance of bearings
    The relative movements are due to one or more of the followings:
    Longitudinal movement due to temperature variation;
    Rotation due to deflection of the girders; and
    Vertical movement due to sinking of support.
    There can be movements due to shrinkage, pre-stressing and creep also.

    Importance of bearings
    These movements may be reversible or irreversible.
    The reversible effects are usually cyclic and are due to temperature changes and
    live loads.
    Effect due to settlement of supports, prestressing, creep and shrinkage are
    irreversible.

    Types of bearings
    Bearings are of two categories : Fixed bearing and expansion bearing.
    Fixed bearing allow rotation but restrict translation.
    while, expansion bearings allow both rotation and longitudinal translation.

    Different designs are possible for each of these two categories.

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