General Information
Project Type
| Structure: |
Box girder bridge |
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| Function / usage: |
Road bridge Railroad (railway) bridge |
| Structure: |
Haunched girder bridge |
| Material: |
Prestressed concrete bridge |
Location
| Location: |
Korsør, Zealand, Denmark |
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| Crosses: |
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| Part of: | |
| Coordinates: | 55° 19' 31.38" N 10° 56' 45.94" E |
| Coordinates: | 55° 17' 58.64" N 10° 51' 8.87" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 110.00 m | |
| width | 25 m | |
| total length | 6 611 m | |
| span lengths | 51 x 110 m + 12 x 81 m | |
| number of spans | 51 | |
| number of tracks | 2 | |
| number of lanes | 2 x 2 |
Quantities
| prestressing steel | > 12 000 t |
Materials
| deck |
prestressed concrete
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Case Studies and Applied Products
RESTON®POT – Pot Bearings
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TENSA®MODULAR LR & LR-LS – Modular expansion joints
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[more]Chronology
| 3 March 2005 | A 3 600 ton ship collides with the Storebælt West bridge, killing one crew member on board. A 2.5 by 5 meter section of the superstructure is damaged, but the bridge reopened for traffic after an inspection deems the bridge safe to carry vehicles. |
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Participants
Wind tunnel testing
Contractor
Prestressing
Bearings
Pot bearings
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (1994): Brücken und Tunnel der Überquerung des Großen Belt. In: Beton- und Stahlbetonbau, v. 89, n. 1 (January 1994), pp. 17-20.
- (1995): Construction of the Great Belt West Bridge. In: Structural Engineering International, v. 5, n. 4 (November 1995), pp. 214-215.
- (1991): Denmark's Fixed Link. In: Structural Engineering International, v. 1, n. 2 (May 1991), pp. 50-52.
- (1990): Les grands ponts du monde: Ponts remarquables d'Europe. Brissaud, Poitiers (France), pp. 189.
- (2018): Great Belt Bridge – Structural monitoring. Presented at: IABSE Conference: Engineering the Past, to Meet the Needs of the Future, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-27 June 2018, pp. 401-408.
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data sheet - Structure-ID
20002357 - Published on:
15/11/2001 - Last updated on:
05/02/2016
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