Abstract: The present invention concerns a rope comprised of a band, mainly having a linear extension with flat faces and a substantially flattened straight cross-section, the rope comprising two pins spaced each other along an axis passing between the pins, the band being wound up on the two pins, in such a way to continuously form a plurality of overlapped coils, wherein the plurality of band portions extending parallel to the axis passing between a pin and the other realize two arms and a bending point in correspondence of each pin, the rope comprising at least one clamping device near at least one of the bending points, able to direct, from outside toward inside the rope, each of the arms in at least one counter-bending point in order to block the mutual sliding of the plurality of band portions and the rotation of the rope around at least one of the pins, as a result of a loss of balance of the load applied on the rope.

Abstract: A dilation joint adjustably interconnecting the structural edges of a bridge opening. The dilation joint includes two continuity metallic plates in a transit plane, connected to the structural edges of the opening and to lower structural elements in such a way that a recess is formed on each side of the opening, each recess formed between one of the metallic plates and its corresponding lower structural element. A support structure spans the opening, supported by both structural edges. The support structure is slidably received in a first one of the recesses, and it slidably supports a deformable transit plane, which is slidably received in the other of the recesses.