General Information
Project Type
| Structure: |
Box girder bridge |
|---|---|
| Function / usage: |
Road bridge |
| Construction method: |
Balanced cantilever method |
| Structure: |
Haunched girder bridge |
| Material: |
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Location
| Location: |
Lofoten, Nordland, Norway |
|---|---|
| Crosses: |
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| Coordinates: | 68° 27' 25.92" N 15° 11' 30.12" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 298 m | |
| total length | 711 m | |
| span lengths | 86 m - 202 m - 298 m - 125 m | |
| number of spans | 4 |
Quantities
| structural steel | 3 500 t | |
| concrete volume | 14 700 m³ |
Materials
| deck |
prestressed concrete
|
|---|---|
| piers |
reinforced concrete
|
| deck of main span |
prestressed lightweight concrete
|
Chronology
| 24 June 1998 | Cantilevers are joined. |
|---|---|
| 6 November 1998 | Bridge is opened. |
Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Raftsund Bridge (Norwegian:Raftsundbrua) is a two-lane cantilever road bridge in Hadsel Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The bridge carries the European route E10 highway and it crosses the Raftsundet strait between the islands of Austvågøya and Hinnøya. The bridge is 711 metres (2,333 ft) long, the main span is 298 metres (978 ft), and the maximum clearance to the sea beneath the bridge is 45 metres (148 ft). The bridge has 4 spans.
The Raftsund Bridge was opened on 6 November 1998, at a cost of 125 million kr. It was the last of the long bridges connecting the Vesterålen islands. It is part of the Lofast project, the road connecting the Lofoten islands to the mainland, which was completed in December 2007.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Raftsund Bridge" and modified on July 22, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
- Jan-Eirik Nilsskog (bridge engineer)
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (1999): Raftsundet Bridge in Lofoten, Norway. In: Structural Engineering International, v. 9, n. 2 (May 1999), pp. 96-99.
- (2000): Rekordspannweiten norwegischer Spannbetonbalkenbrücken. In: Bautechnik, v. 77, n. 1 (January 2000), pp. 72-73.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20001759 - Published on:
18/08/2001 - Last updated on:
05/02/2016
