Erica Mae M.

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Assignment No. 1

Make a research of at least 10 structures here in the Philippines and determine what type of structures and
type of structural members the structures composed of. Include the structure’s history, name, and
location.
1. Philippine Arena
Philippine Arena (Fig. 1) site is located in
Barangay Duhat, Bocaue, Bulacan, which is
north-west side of Manila, capital of
Philippines. It is a 50,000 seated domed roof
structure which is the largest non-column
area in the world, measured to be around 227
m × 179 m. It opened in July 2014 to hold
100-year anniversary ceremony of INC
(Iglesia ni Cristo). After the ceremony, it has
been used as a concert hall and sports
activities, also. As the construction period
was imited, Philippine Arena was
constructed as fast track.
For the type of structure, the Philippine Arena have used frames for the design of the lower bowl,
a frame system for the upper bowl (special concentrically braced frame), for the roof system, space frame
with ball connection as well as tension trusses were utilized.
2. Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway
The Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway
(CCLEX), also known as the Cebu–
Cordova Bridge and the Third Cebu–
Mactan Bridge (or simply, the Third
Bridge), is an 8.9-kilometer (5.5 mi) toll
bridge expressway in Metro Cebu,
Philippines. The bridge connects the South
Road Properties in Cebu City in mainland
Cebu, and Cordova, on Mactan island.
Crossing the Mactan Channel, it is the third
road link between Cebu and Mactan islands, and the first between Cebu City and Cordova. It is the
longest sea-crossing bridge in the Philippines, surpassing the 2-kilometer (1.2 mi) San Juanico Bridge
between Samar and Leyte, as well as Marcelo Fernan Bridge (which also crosses the Mactan Channel) as
the longest cable-stayed bridge in the Philippines.
 As for the type of structure, CCLEX uses Cables. It is a cable-stayed main span is supported by
two single pylons, rising to a height of 145 meters.

3. San Juanico Bridge

San Juanico Bridge is part of the Pan
Philippine Highway that connects
islands of Leyte and Samar from the
city of Tacloban to the town of Santa
Rita, Samar. With a length of 2.6
kilometers, it was considered as the
longest bridge in the Philippines until
the new Cebu Cordova Link
Expressway (CCLEX) was opened to
the public on April 27, 2022.
The type of Structure for San Juanico bridge is Trusses. Its longest length is a steel girder viaduct
built on reinforced concrete piers, and its main span is of an arch-shaped truss design.

4. Binondo-Intramuros Bridge
The Binondo–Intramuros
Bridge is a tied-arch bridge in
Manila, Philippines that spans
the Pasig River. It connects
Muelle de Binondo in
Binondo and in San Nicolas
to Solana Street and Riverside
Drive in Intramuros.[4] The
bridge has four lanes and
exhibits a steel bowstring
arch design with inclined
arches.[5] It has a length of
680 meters (2,230 ft).
The bridge is controversial due to its
location at the historic center of Manila, near the San Agustin Church heritage site.
The type of structure for this bridge is Cable and Arches. The basket handle-tied design of the
steel arch main bridge
 5. Buntun Bridge
Buntun Bridge is a river bridge that
stretches from Tuguegarao City to
Solana in Cagayan and spans the
Cagayan River, the largest river
basin in the Philippines. It forms part
of the Santiago-Tuguegarao Road
(designated as N51 by the
Department of Public Works and
Highways highway routing system),
a major junction of the Pan-Philippine Highway. It was the longest bridge in the Philippines upon its
opening in 1969, surpassed in 1973 by the San Juanico Bridge.
The construction was based from the original plan of ten 240-feet steel through truss spans and
one 50 feet I-beam approach on each end. With the initial Ph200,000, Alonzo completed Abutment A.
Pier I, footing and pedestal of Pier II. Thus, the type of structure for Buntun Bridge is trusses.
6. Osmena Bridge
The Mactan–Mandaue Bridge,
officially known as Serging Veloso
Osmeña Jr. Bridge, also known as
the First Cebu–Mactan Bridge and
First Bridge locally, is a truss bridge
that crosses the Mactan Channel and
connects the cities of Mandaue and
Lapu-Lapu City in Metro Cebu,
Philippines. Construction began in
1970, a year after the ordination of
Mandaue as a chartered city. It was
inaugurated on July 4, 1973.[3] The bridge is popularly claimed to be designed and created solely by
Filipino engineers.
The bridge’s structure type is trusses.
7. Philippine International
Convention Center

The Philippine International Convention

Center or Sentrong Pangkumbensyong
Pandaigdig ng Pilipinas, or PICC is a
convention center located in the Cultural
Center of the Philippines Complex in
Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines. The
facility has been the host of numerous
local and foreign conventions, meetings,
fairs, and social events.The PICC served as
the office of the Vice President of the
Philippines until 2005. It also previously housed the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office.
Characterized by its heavy use of bare concrete, striking visuals, and defined lines, PICC was
inaugurated on September 5, 1976 to host the World Bank-International Monetary Fund annual meeting.
 8. Macapagal Bridge
Macapagal Bridge (Filipino: Tulay ng
Macapagal) is a steel cable-stayed bridge
along Mayor Democrito D. Plaza II
Avenue (also known as the Butuan
Bypass Road) in Butuan, Agusan del
Norte that crosses the Agusan River. It
has a length of 908 m (2,979 ft), making
it the longest bridge in Mindanao, and
the third-longest cable-stayed bridge in
the Philippines after the Marcelo Fernan
Bridge and Cebu-Cordova Bridge.
A single main pylon made of reinforced
concrete was constructed as well as the foundations to support the bridge superstructure, and all civil
works for the road section.
The Bridge’s main type of structure is Cables.

9. Marcelo Fernan Bridge

Marcelo Fernan Bridge, also known as
Second Cebu–Mactan Bridge and the Second
Bridge locally, is an extradosed cable-stayed
bridge located in Metro Cebu in the
Philippines. It crosses Mactan Channel
connecting Mandaue in mainland Cebu to
Lapu-Lapu City in Mactan Island. It is
currently the second-longest cable-stayed
bridge in the Philippines after Cebu–Cordova
Link Expressway which also crosses the
Mactan Channel. was opened in August 1999
to decongest the traffic from the older Mactan–Mandaue Bridge, which opened in 1973. The bridge has a
total length of 1,237 meters (4,058 ft) with a center span of 185 meters (607 ft), and was inaugurated by
Philippine President Joseph Estrada on August 3, 1999.
The type of structure for this bridge is Cables.

10. Davao–Samal Bridge

The Samal Island–Davao City (SIDC) Connector,
[2] commonly known as the Davao–Samal
Bridge, is a proposed bridge that will cross
Pakiputan Strait to connect Davao City and
Samal, Davao del Norte in the Philippines. The
3.98-kilometer bridge, a flagship project under the
“Build, Build, Build” program during the
administration of former President Rodrigo Duterte, will be hugely funded through a loan agreement with
the Chinese government.
The bridge will use cables to support the bridge’s superstructure and so the type of structure for
the Davao-Samal Bridge is Cables.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF SUPPORTS ANS CONNECTIONS OF STRUCTURAL MEMBERS

1. FIXED SUPPORT
Fixed supports are also called as rigid
supports. Fixed supports are restrained
against both rotation and translation so they
can resist any type of force or moment.

2. PINNED ORT HINGED SUPPORT

Pinned support or hinged support can resists
both vertical and horizontal forces but they
cannot resist moment. It means hinged
support is restrained against translation

3. ROLLER SUPPORT
Roller supports only resists perpendicular
forces and they cannot resist parallel or
horizontal forces and moment. It means, the
roller support will move freely along the
surface without resisting horizontal force.
This type of support is provided at one end of
bridge spans.

4. ROCKER SUPPORT
5. Rocker support is similar to roller support. It
also resists vertical force and allows
horizontal translation and rotation. But in this
case horizontal movement is due to curved
surface