The metal teeth on a bridge
At the end of a bridge deck, interlocking steel fingers, noisy to drive over.
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Feature. They let the bridge grow and shrink.
Steel and concrete expand with heat and contract with cold. Expansion joints take up that movement so the structure does not buckle or crack, and the finger design lets traffic cross the gap smoothly.
Source: Expansion joint, Wikipedia.