Design of the Chenab Bridge in India
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Pekka Pulkkinen
Kilian Karius Risto Kiviluoma |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Long Span Bridges and Roofs - Development, Design and Implementation, Kolkata, India, 24-27 September 2013 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Kolkata 2013 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 1-8 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2013 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137813808627451 | ||||
| Abstract: |
This paper describes the conceptual design and the main principles of structural design of the Chenab Bridge. The main focus is to explain the exceptional bridge concept in challenging terrain and to give an overall description of design solutions used in one of the highest steel arch railway bridge in the world. |
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| Keywords: |
arch bridges railroad bridges rail bridges steel bridges bridge design erection methods
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