Darlington Upgrade Project – Bridge design for manufacture and assembly
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Arwin Salih
(Gateway South Design Joint Venture, Adelaide, Australia)
John Kenyon (Gateway South Design Joint Venture, Adelaide, Australia) John Steele (Gateway South Design Joint Venture, Adelaide, Australia) Ranjan Weeraratne (Gateway South Design Joint Venture, Adelaide, Australia) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Congress: Resilient technologies for sustainable infrastructure, Christchurch, New Zealand, 3-5 February 2021 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress Christchurch 2020 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 21-28 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/christchurch.2021.0021 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The Darlington Upgrade Project (DUP) consists of the upgrade of approximately 3.3 kilometres of the existing Main South Road forming part of the Adelaide North-South Transport Corridor. This paper focusses on the design of the project’s three composite steel box girder bridges and challenges employing the Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) principles on the bridge superstructures which were constructed on temporary towers in an assembly yard approximately 500 metres from the final bridge position and transported using the Self-Propelled Modular Transporter (SPMT) technology. SPMTs, a first in Australia for bridge application, allows pre- fabrication of the bridge superstructure improving safety for both construction crews and motorists. Evaluation of stresses imposed on the superstructure obtained from the real time monitoring instrumentation during installation is also presented. |
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| Keywords: |
box girder motorway precast ‘biscuit’ permanent formwork panel self-propelled modular transporter vibrating wire strain gauges
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