Villamaría Network Arch Bridge
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Óscar Ramón Ramos
Ricardo Sousa Frank Schanack Marcos J. Pantaleón |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Engineering for Progress, Nature and People, Madrid, Spain, 3-5 September 2014 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Madrid 2014 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 2500-2507 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2014 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137814814069282 | ||||
| Abstract: |
This paper focuses on the principal engineering aspects of the Network Arch Bridge over the river Tercero, which joins the cities Villa Maria and Villa Nueva in the province of Cordoba, Argentina. This new bridge replaces the old steel structure located nearby. The structural concept of the network arch allows to cross the Tercero riverbed with a single span of 120 m maintaining at the same tame a remarkable slenderness of the deck and the arches, which allows a significant economical solution. The idea was to provide a solution with many prefabricated elements (steel arches as well as longitudinal and transversal prestressed beams) resulting in a fast and effective construction process. The lateral stability of the arches has been ensured by the set of Vierendeel stiffeners. |
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| Keywords: |
prestressing ropes cables arch network pre-cast
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