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ABSTRACT The importance of transportation for the prosperity of any country cannot be overem-phasized.Transportation needs commensurate with infrastructural development demand shortest routes to cover distances. Bridge structures are the only solutions for such problems.Bridges are essential and vital elements of any road network. Now a days various Bridge construction works are going on all around the world as well as in our state.The vast majority of these bridges are of small or medium spans, where the slab or the beam and slab type of superstructure are the most suitable and preferred solution. It is observed that, In this slab type of bridges mostly 3 no.of Elastomeric bearings are provided to transfer the load from superstructure to sub structure. This only 3 no.of bearings transferring the whole load to substructure and foundation attracted my attention. So I decided to work on the Elastomeric bearings, the no .of bearings provided and its effects on the other structure of the project. Bearings are structural equipment or devices installed between bridge substructure and superstructure to transfer the applied load including earthquake loads; wind loads; traffic loads; and superstructure self-weight. Elastomeric bearings consists of elastomer manufactured from synthetic or natural rubber and can take both translation and rotation movements through elastomer deformation. The ability of elastomer to carry large vertical loads is because of reinforcement. In this project we consider Solid slab type of bridge superstructure of 10m to 15 m span length with open foundation. For each span length of superstructures we designed particular Elastomeric Bearings. For analysis firstly we provide 3 number of bearings and observed its effect on substructure and foundation by designing the substructure. After that we increased the number of bearings and provided 4 number of bearings .Observed the effect on substructure and foundation and found that the pier cap effects the most. We compared both the observations and concluded the result.