The design challenges of the new movable bascule bridge 'Parallelstructuur A12 Gouda'
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Mark van der Burg
(Movares Nederland BV, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Bert Hesselink (Movares Nederland BV, Utrecht, The Netherlands) Ronald Geijsen (Movares Nederland BV, Utrecht, The Netherlands) Vincent Verdouw (Movares Nederland BV, Utrecht, The Netherlands) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Congress: Challenges in Design and Construction of an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-23 September 2016 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress Stockholm, 2016 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 2353-2359 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 7 | ||||
| Year: | 2016 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/stockholm.2016.2344 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The Parallel Structure (or ‘parallelstructuur’ in Dutch) for the A12 motorway near Gouda in the Netherlands is designed to relieve the weaving traffic on the A12/A20 interchange by creating a direct connection to bypass the interchange. The project consists of two components. The first component is the Extra Gouwe Crossing parallel to the A12 between the Gouda and Gouda-West off-ramps. The other component is the Moordrechtboog which will connect the A12 and A20 motorways. In the Extra Gouwe Crossing there will be a movable bridge to cross the river Gouwe. The bridge will be a balanced bascule bridge, with a total weight of 900 metric tons. The total length is 41 m and the width is 23,5 m. The span between main center of rotation and it’s front supports is 30 m. This paper is about the design challenges of this movable bridge. |
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| Keywords: |
stability fatigue life movable bridge steel orthotropic deck electro mechanical operating mechanism panama wheel
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