General Information
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Road bridge |
|---|---|
| Material: |
Prestressed concrete bridge |
| Plan view: |
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| Structure: |
Haunched girder bridge |
| Construction method: |
main bridge: Balanced cantilever method |
| Material: |
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| Construction method: |
approach viaducts: Incremental launching |
Location
| Location: |
Eastern Cape, South Africa |
|---|---|
| Coordinates: | 31° 10' 43.90" S 29° 55' 42.10" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| total length | 1 100 m | |
| approach viaducts | ||
|---|---|---|
| span lengths | 55 - 66 m | |
| deck | deck depth | 5.00 m |
| piers | height | 25 - 80 m |
| main bridge | ||
| main span | 260 m | |
| span lengths | 150 m - 260 m - 150 m | |
| number of spans | 3 | |
| deck | deck depth | 5.00 - 15.00 m |
| piers | width | 8.7 - 15.0 m |
| piers 8 & 9 | height | 135 m |
| depth | 4 m | |
Materials
| deck |
prestressed concrete
|
|---|---|
| piers |
reinforced concrete
|
| abutments |
reinforced concrete
|
Participants
Client
1st construction phase (2018-2019)
Co-contractor
2nd construction phase (2019)
Co-contractor
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (2018): Design and Development of the Msikaba and Mtentu River Bridges. Presented at: IABSE Conference: Engineering the Developing World, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 25-27 April 2018, pp. 497-504.
- (2023): ILM Application in 66m Span PC Continuous Beam. Presented at: IABSE Symposium: Long Span Bridges, Istanbul, Turkey, 26-28 April 2023, pp. 983.
- (2018): Msikaba and Mtentu River Bridges – Large Scale Infrastructure in Rural South Africa. Presented at: IABSE Symposium: Tomorrow’s Megastructures, Nantes, France, 19-21 September 2018, pp. S12-65.
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20086026 - Published on:
05/06/2023 - Last updated on:
05/06/2023
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