General Information
Project Type
| Structure: |
Cable-stayed bridge with semi-fan system |
|---|---|
| Function / usage: |
Motorway bridge / freeway bridge |
| Material: |
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| Secondary structure(s): |
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Location
| Location: |
Novi Sad, Južna Bačka , Serbia |
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| Crosses: |
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| Coordinates: | 45° 14' 2.04" N 19° 50' 58.20" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 351.00 m | |
| total length | 1 312 m | |
| span lengths of main bridge | 2 x 60.00 m - 351.00 m - 2 × 60.00 m | |
| number of lanes | 6 | |
| deck | deck depth | 3.80 m |
| deck width | 27.60 m | |
| pylon | pylon height | 60.00 m |
| main bridge | ||
|---|---|---|
| length | 591 m | |
Quantities
| structural steel | 9 700 t | |
| concrete volume | 32 000 m³ | |
| prestressing steel | 110 t | |
| reinforcing steel | 2 136 t |
Materials
| deck |
steel
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|---|---|
| pylons |
steel
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Chronology
| 3 April 1999 | Bridge is destroyed in NATO attacks. |
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| 11 October 2005 | The identically rebuilt bridge is opened to traffic. |
Excerpt from Wikipedia
Liberty Bridge (Serbian: Мост слободе, romanized: Most slobode) is a cable-stayed bridge on the Danube river in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia. The bridge was built in 1981 and destroyed during NATO bombardment on 3 April 1999. It was rebuilt from 2003 to 2005 and reopened on 7 October 2005. The bridge was designed by Nikola Hajdin.
History
On 3 April 1999, at 7:55 pm local time, a rocket struck the Liberty Bridge during the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. Although the bridge gradually collapsed into the Danube River, there were no deaths thanks to a local fisherman named Velimir Teodorović who rescued nine civilians from the destroyed bridge.
Rebuilding the bridge cost the city of Novi Sad 40 million euros and lasted for 2 years and 22 days. Maja Gojković, at the time mayor of Novi Sad, reopened it on 7 October 2005. The official reopening was held a few days later, with officials from the European Agency for Reconstruction present. The bridge's reconstruction and opening was a cause for political clashes; one side saying Novi Sad and its citizens should be thankful to EU for the gift of the reconstructed bridge, and the other that EU was obliged to reconstruct it anyway, as a part of war damages compensation.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Liberty Bridge, Novi Sad" and modified on June 3, 2020 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
- Gojko Nenadic (design engineer)
- Predrag Zelalic (design engineer)
- Blagoje Zaric (design engineer)
- Nikola Hajdin (designer)
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (2003): La reconstruction du pont Sloboda à Novi Sad (P.F.Y.). Un défi technologique. In: Travaux, n. 793 (January 2003), pp. 62-70.
- (2007): La ricostruzione del "ponte della libertà". In: Strade e Autostrade, v. 11, n. 65 (September 2007), pp. 90-95.
- (1986): Schrägseilbrücken. Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH, Berlin (Germany), pp. 40.
- (2004): Wiederaufbau der Sloboda-Brücke Novi Sad. In: Stahlbau, v. 73, n. 10 (October 2004), pp. 811-817.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20004791 - Published on:
01/09/2002 - Last updated on:
05/02/2016
