Bridges and Viaducts
A bridge or a viaduct is a structure built to span a physical obstacle such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over that very obstacle.
Most Important Structures in this Category
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| # | Name | Country | main span |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Foothills Parkway Bridge Two | USA | 54864 m |
| 2 | 1915 Çanakkale Bridge | Turkey | 2023 m |
| 3 | Akashi Kaikyo Bridge | Japan | 1990.8000 m |
| 4 | Nanjing Xianxin Road Yangtze River Bridge | China | 1760 m |
| 5 | Yangsigang Bridge | China | 1700 m |
| 6 | Nansha Bridge (East) | China | 1688 m |
| 7 | Lingdingyang Bridge | China | 1666 m |
| 8 | Xihoumen Bridge | China | 1650 m |
| 9 | Great Belt East Bridge | Denmark | 1624 m |
| 10 | Osman Gazi Bridge | Turkey | 1550 m |
Note: there are too many entries in this category and all its subcategories combined. To obtain a list of structures please go through one of the subcategories.
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Subcategories
- 3D-Printed Bridges
- Balanced cantilever method
- Balanced lift method
- Cantilever construction using temporary cable-stays
- Cantilever construction using temporary stays in vertical position, then rotation into horizontal
- Composite prefabricated girders with in-situ deck slab
- Floating
- In-situ casting on falsework
- Incremental launching
- Lateral / transverse launching
- Longitudinal launching
- Movable Scaffolding Systems
- Placement by crane
- Placement by floating crane
- Placement by helicopter
- Precast concrete elements with in-situ joints
- Precast girders with cast-in-situ slab
- Precast segmental construction
- Rotation around a horizontal axis
- Rotation around a vertical axis
- Suspension bridge deck erection methods
- Suspension cable erection methods
Case Studies & Reports
Himmelhausmattesteg: a Suspension Bridge on a Wire Rope Mesh
An elegant suspension bridge has been crossing the Trub in Trubschachen in the Emmental since November 2020. The construction of the pedestrian and cycle path bridge is unique: for the first time, a bridge is suspended from a wire rope m ... [more]
LaPendenta Suspension Bridge in Disentis
Since November 2024, Graubünden's longest suspension bridge has spanned the Rhine Gorge near Disentis/Mustér. The ARGE Jakob Rope Systems, Pfeifer and Von Rotz & Wiedemar AG realized this bridge construction project using rope techno ... [more]
Huge Expansion Joint for the Shenzhong Link
The Shenzhong Bridge is part of the 24-km Shenzhen Zhongshan Link and is the largest bridge of its kind in the world. It is located in China’s Pearl River Delta, an area heavily affected by dangerous typhoons. The requirements for the ex ... [more]
Literature
- (2018): 100 Jahre Dauerhaftigkeit für Brücken- und Tunnelbauwerke. Presented at: 28. Dresdener Brückenbausysmposium, Dresden (Deutschland), 12.-13. März 2018, pp. 157-168.
- (2017): 27. Dresdner Brückenbausymposium. Planung, Bauausführung, Instandsetzung und Ertüchtigung von Brücken (13./14. März 2017). ISBN 978-3-86780-510-0, pp. 208.
- (2018): 28. Dresdner Brückenbausymposium. Planung, Bauausführung, Instandsetzung und Ertüchtigung von Brücken (12./13. März 2018). Institut für Massivbau, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden (Germany), ISBN 978-3-86780-544-5, pp. 231.
- (1933): Advances in Bridge Construction. In: Civil Engineering Magazine, v. 3, n. 8 (August 1933), pp. 428-32.
- (1968): Aesthetics of Bridge Design. In: PCI Journal, v. 13, n. 1 (February 1968), pp. 14-31.
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