The Ship Lift at Three Gorges Dam, China – World’s Largest Elevator
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Jan Akkermann
(University of Applied Sciences / KREBS+KIEFER Ingenieure, Karlsruhe, Germany)
Xiaoyun Wu (China Three Gorges Corporation, Ship Lift Department, Yichang, China) |
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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): | 2693-2702 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 10 | ||||
| Year: | 2016 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/stockholm.2016.2692 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The ship lift at the Three-Gorges-Dam in China will be the largest of its kind worldwide. The entire structure is nearing completion. Within four reinforced concrete towers a steely ship chamber supported by ropes with counterweights will be lifted up to 113 m. This results in nearly 33.000 tons of moved masses. The article presents the structural aspects of the project from the design to the execution. |
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| Keywords: |
seismic design ship lift ropes cables post-tensioning moveable structure reinforced concrete tower mechanical parts
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