Dividing pillars

A dividing pillar , often also called group pillar , is a column on which the ends of two superstructures of a multi-part bridge are supported one behind the other. The bridge superstructure has a joint above a separating pillar . The head of the separating pillar has two bearing axes transverse to the longitudinal direction of the bridge and is therefore wider than a normal pillar of the same structure.

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  Dividing pillars of the Füllbachtal bridge

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  Separating pillar of the Unstruttal Bridge

literature

• Rolf H. Pfeifer, Tristan M. Mölter: Manual Railway Bridges . DVV Media Group, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7771-0378-5 , p. 362