orthotropic in a sentence

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1. To reduce the weight of the roadway, asphalt and concrete were removed and special steel plating ( an orthotropic deck ) was used in its place.
2. The longest or record span box girder, slant-leg bridges; arch bridges; movable bridges and two Norwegian floating bridges all use orthotropic decks.
3. Orthotropic steel deck systems have begun to dominate movable spans in Europe because smaller towers and lifting mechanisms are required, using less energy to move them.
4. The steel deck-plate-and-ribs system may be idealized for analytical purposes as an anisotropic plate, hence the abbreviated designation  orthotropic . 
5. The eventual solution was to add two additional orthotropic cantilever lanes either side of the bridge, which traffic could run on while the original road deck was replaced.
6. For orthotropic materials such as wood, whose stiffness is symmetric with respect to each of three orthogonal planes, nine coefficients suffice to express the stress strain relationship.
7. Some very large cable-supported bridges, plus current record span ( cable-stayed bridges and suspension bridges ) would not be feasible without steel orthotropic decks.
8. The deck is an orthotropic box girder similar to the Severn Bridge but has a different appearance as it has two sets of cable stays on each of two towers.
9. The Akashi-KaikyM
   Bridge's orthotropic deck allowed the Japanese to build the longest span at about 6000 ft or 50 % longer than the Golden Gate Bridge.
10. The upper part of the bridge is made of orthotropic materials with 102 metal voussoirs which weigh 8, 900 tons with an average weight of eight tons per meter.