The Modular Expansion Joints of the Sheikh Jaber Causeway in Kuwait
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Achilleas Athanasiou
(Mageba SA, Bulach, Switzerland)
Niculin Meng (Mageba SA, Bulach, Switzerland) Colm O'Suilleabhain (Mageba SA, Bulach, Switzerland) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Tomorrow’s Megastructures, Nantes, France, 19-21 September 2018 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Nantes 2018 | ||||
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| Page(s): | S1-9 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 7 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/nantes.2018.s1-9 | ||||
| Abstract: |
When completed in 2018, the Main Link of the Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Causeway in Kuwait will be one of the longest sea bridges in the world, with a length of 36 km. The project to supply many of the expansion joints required presented significant challenges, including ensuring durability, designing with extra-low height, and supplying – with ex-works lengths of up to 25.4 m – within the limited time period allowed by the bridge construction contract. |
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| Keywords: |
design bridge modular expansion joints supply
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