General Information
| Name in local language: | 万县长江大桥 (Wànxiàn Chángjiāng Dàqiáo) |
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| Other name(s): | Wanxian Bridge |
| Completion: | 1997 |
| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Structure: |
Deck arch bridge |
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| Function / usage: |
Road bridge |
| Material: |
Reinforced concrete bridge |
| Plan view: |
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Location
| Location: |
Wanzhou, Chongqing, China |
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| Crosses: |
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| Coordinates: | 30° 45' 31.95" N 108° 25' 10.28" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| total length | 864.12 m | |
| arch | rise:span | 1:5 |
| arch span | 420 m | |
| deck | deck width | 24 m |
Materials
| piers |
reinforced concrete
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| arch |
reinforced concrete
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| piers on arch |
reinforced concrete
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
Wanxian Bridge, or Wanzhou Bridge (simplified Chinese: 万县长江大桥; traditional Chinese: 萬縣長江大橋; pinyin: Wànxiàn Chángjiāng Dàqiáo), is a reinforced concrete arch bridge built over the Yangtze River in 1997. It is located in the vicinity of the Three Gorges Dam in Wanzhou, Chongqing, China. The arch span is 420 metres (1,380 ft) and the total length of the bridge is 864.12 metres (2,835.0 ft). The clearance height to the river below is 133 metres (436 ft) however the full clearance is no longer visible as the reservoir created by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam has increased the height of the water. During the bridge construction, a concrete-filled tubular arch truss frame was built to support the weight of the concrete arch and embedded into the concrete arch.
The Wanxian Bridge is the longest existing concrete arch bridge in the world, displacing the previous record holder, the Croatian Krk Bridge. It is a major highway bridge with lanes for vehicles and pedestrians.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Wanzhou Yangtze River Bridge" and modified on May 10, 2023 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (2001): ARCH'01 - 3ème conférence sur les ponts en arc. Presses de l'Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées, Paris (France), pp. 673-676, 815-820.
- (1999): Bridge Engineering Handbook. CRC Press, Boca Raton (USA), pp. 63-20 - 63-21.
- (2009): China's Major Bridges. Presented at: IABSE Workshop: Recent Major Bridges, Shanghai, China, 11-12 May 2009, pp. 1-24.
- (1997): Composite arch bridges developed in China. Presented at: IABSE Conference report, Innsbruck, Austria, 16-18/09/1997.
- (2010): Creep Analysis of Encased CFST Arch Bridges, A Case Study of Wanxian Yangtze River Bridge. Presented at: IABSE Symposium: Large Structures and Infrastructures for Environmentally Constrained and Urbanised Areas, Venice, Italy, 22-24 September 2010, pp. 510-511.
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20001855 - Published on:
29/08/2001 - Last updated on:
27/09/2023
