Vertical lift bridges
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| # | Name | Country | main span |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Melville Bridge | USA | 236.5200 m |
| 2 | Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge | USA | 170 m |
| 3 | Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge | USA | 166 m |
| 4 | Delair Bridge | USA | 165.2000 m |
| 5 | Marine Parkway Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge | USA | 164.6000 m |
| 6 | Burlington-Bristol Bridge | USA | 164.6000 m |
| 7 | Interstate Bridge | USA | 161.8000 m |
| 8 | Kattwyk Bridge | Germany | 130.8500 m |
| 9 | Armour, Swift, Burlington Bridge | USA | 130.5400 m |
| 10 | Harry S. Truman Bridge | USA | 128.0200 m |
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Case Studies & Reports
A lift bridge is lifted off its bearings
For the new Kattwyck Bridge and the older one it replaces as a railroad bridge, MAURER was responsible for the installation of the bearings. For the lift span, the challenge was that the bearings had to be pulled apart during the lifting ... [more]
New bridge Hisingsbron (Gothenburg): Noise-reduced expansion joints with special “tunneling”
A streetcar running on a bridge is not uncommon. However, this presents a challenge in Gothenburg since long ramps lead to the bridge construction. The required expansion joints between the structural sectio ... [more]
Floating expansion joints for Europe’s largest lift bridge
Rotterdam has the largest port in Europe, so its port entrance for overseas container ships is both vast and congested. This is the entrance to what is currently the largest lift bridge in Europe: the Botlekbrug. Opening and closing a br ... [more]
Literature
- (1972): Comparaison de quelques tableaux métalliques de ponts levants. In: Acier = Stahl = Steel, v. 37 (December 1972), pp. 520-526.
- (1955): La construction du pont levant de Brest. Pont de la Recouvrance. In: Travaux, n. 243 (January 1955), pp. 5.
- (1850): Description of a Vertical Lift Bridge, Erected over the Grand Surrey Canal, on the Line of the Thames Junction Branch of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. In: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, v. 9, n. 1850 ( 1850), pp. 303-309, appendix.
- (2017): Design and Construction of the Sir Ambrose Shea Vertical Lift Bridge, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador. Presented at: 2017 Conference of the Transportation Association of Canada, St. John’s, NL.
- (2006): Development of the Vertical Lift Bridge: Squire Whipple to J. A. L. Waddell, 1872–1917. In: Journal of Bridge Engineering (ASCE), v. 11, n. 5 (September 2006), pp. 642-654.
