General Information
Project Type
| Structure: |
Single-span two-tower suspension bridge |
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| Material: |
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| Secondary structure(s): |
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| Function / usage: |
upper deck: Motorway bridge / freeway bridge lower deck: Railroad (railway) bridge |
Location
| Location: |
Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China |
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| Crosses: |
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| Coordinates: | 32° 13' 37.77" N 119° 40' 29.41" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| total length | 6408.909 m | |
| number of tracks | 2 x 2 | |
| number of lanes | 2 x 4 | |
| approach viaduct 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| total length | 1 444.799 m | |
| approach viaduct 2 | ||
| total length | 3 532.11 m | |
| main bridge | ||
| main span | 1 092 m | |
| total length | 1 432 m | |
| rise:span | 1:10 | |
| span lengths | 2 x 84 m - 1 092 m - 2 x 84 m | |
| number of spans | 5 | |
| cables | sag | 109.2 m |
| strands per cable | 352 | |
| wires per strand | 127 | |
| number | 2 | |
| lower deck | width | 30 m |
| piers | number | 6 |
| piles | number | 209 |
| pylon 1 | height | 203 m |
| pylon 2 | height | 191 m |
| upper deck | width | 46 m |
Quantities
| structural steel | 72 000 t |
Cost
| cost of construction | Renminbi Yuan 6 790 000 000 |
Materials
| cables |
steel wire
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|---|---|
| piers |
reinforced concrete
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| pylons |
reinforced concrete
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| deck truss |
steel
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| anchorages |
reinforced concrete
|
Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Wufengshan Yangtze River Bridge (Chinese: 五峰山长江大桥) is a two-decked suspension bridge carrying the Lianyungang–Zhenjiang high-speed railway and the Jiangyi Expressway [zh] over the Yangtze. With a total length of 6,409 m (21,027 ft) and a main span of 1,092 m (3,583 ft), it is the world's longest span high-speed railway bridge, tied with the Hutong Yangtze River Bridge.
History
Plans to build a railway bridge at the location had been conceived since the 1960s, but were shelved due to building techniques at the time being insufficient to meet the requirements. Construction was started on 28 October 2015. The structure was closed on 29 December 2019 and the bridge was opened for railway traffic on 11 December 2020.
Engineering
The bridge is fitted with several measures such as dampers and tensioners to reduce deformation from wind, which would inhibit high-speed rail operation. The anchors of the bridge are of the largest ever built as a caisson, measuring 7,260 m² (78,100 sq ft), and weighing 1.33 megatonnes (2.9×109 lb). It also has the largest main cable diameter in the world, each cable contains 352 strands and has a diameter of 1,300 mm (51 in).
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Wufengshan Yangtze River Bridge" and modified on June 12, 2023 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
Currently there is no information available about persons or companies having participated in this project.
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (2022): Construction Technologies of a large span Railway Suspension Bridge- Wufengshan Bridge. Presented at: IABSE Congress: Bridges and Structures: Connection, Integration and Harmonisation, Nanjing, People's Republic of China, 21-23 September 2022, pp. 152-156.
- (2023): Research and application of key technology for construction of large open caisson foundation of bridge. Presented at: IABSE Symposium: Long Span Bridges, Istanbul, Turkey, 26-28 April 2023, pp. 971.
- (2022): Wufengshan Yangtze River Bridge: A Thousand-Meter Scale Suspension Bridge in China. In: Structural Engineering International, v. 32, n. 2 (April 2022), pp. 1-5.
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20086038 - Published on:
08/06/2023 - Last updated on:
08/06/2023
