Vénéjan-Mornas Viaduct

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Structure:	Tied-arch bridge
Function / usage:	High-speed rail bridge
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Location:	Saint-Etienne-des-Sorts, Gard (30), Occitanie, France Mornas, Vaucluse (84), Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Crosses:	Rhone River
Part of:	TGV Mediterranean (km 590.300)
Coordinates:	44° 12' 9" N 4° 42' 23" E

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	main span	121.40 m
	height	35 m
	total length	887 m
	span lengths	25 m - 36 m - 50 m - 3 x 50 m - 40.30 m - 121.4 m - 45.3 m - 45 m - 4 x 55 m - 60 m - 2 x 50 m - 44 m
	number of spans	14
arch	rise	32.370 m
	arch span	118.722 m
	distance between suspender planes	15.50 m
	on-center spacing between suspenders	8.628 m
deck	crossing angle	67.664°

arch	structural steel	2 300 t
deck	structural steel	2 650 t

piers	reinforced concrete
arch	steel
deck of approach viaducts	composite steel-reinforced concrete

Fall 1998	The arch is launched.

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de Ville de Goyet, Vincent (2001): Comportement dynamique et notion de vitesse critique à propos d'un viaduc de la ligne TGV Méditerranée. Presented at: ARCH'01. 3ème conférence sur les ponts en arc, pp. 621-628.
Giraud, Philippe (1999): Des Records et des Hommes. TGV Méditerranée. Terre du Sud, pp. 82-88.
Vallée, Philippe / Roujon, Michel / Sayn, Pierre (1998): Lot 2C - Le viaduc de Mornas. In: Travaux, n. 742 (May 1998), pp. 61-66.
Ramondenc, Philippe / Bousquet, Christian (2004): The main bridges of the high speed line HSL Méditerranée. Presented at: fib Symposium 2004, 26-28 April 2004, Avignon, pp. 65-82.
Duval, Jean-Pierre: Viaducs de Mornas / Mondragon. In: Formes et Structures, n. 127, pp. 40.

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