General Information
| Name in local language: | 西堠門大橋 / 西堠门大桥 (Xīhòumén Dàqiáo) |
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| Beginning of works: | 2005 |
| Completion: | 25 December 2009 |
| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Structure: |
Two-span two-tower suspension bridge |
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| Function / usage: |
Road bridge |
| Material: |
Steel bridge |
| Support conditions: |
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Awards and Distinctions
| 2012 |
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Location
| Location: |
Ningbo, Zhejiang, China Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China |
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| Part of: | |
| Near: |
Xihoumen Highway and Railway Bridge (2026)
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| Location description: |
The bridge links Jintang and Cezi islands |
| Coordinates: | 30° 4' 10.55" N 121° 55' 29.62" E |
| Coordinates: | 30° 3' 37.77" N 121° 54' 51.65" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 1 650 m | |
| total length | 2 588 m | |
| pylons | height | 211.286 m |
Quantities
| structural steel | 78 152 t | |
| concrete volume | 246 956 m³ |
Cost
| cost of construction | Renminbi Yuan 2 480 000 000 |
Materials
| deck |
steel
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| piers |
reinforced concrete
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| pylons |
reinforced concrete
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| anchorages |
reinforced concrete
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Xihoumen Bridge (Chinese: 西堠门大桥) is a suspension bridge on the Zhoushan Archipelago, the largest offshore island group in China.
Linking Jintang and Cezi islands, the bridge, together with the 27-kilometer cable-stayed Jintang Bridge linking Jintang and Zhenhai in the neighboring city of Ningbo, is part of the second and last phase of a bridging project started in 1999 to connect the Zhoushan Archipelago to the mainland via five bridges. The bridge forms part of the Yongzhou Expressway.
Built by the province of Zhejiang at a cost of 2.48 billion yuan (approximately US$363 million), construction began in 2005, and the main span was completed in December 2007. The bridge was opened to traffic on a test basis on 25 December 2009, at 11:58 p.m., local time, alongside the Jintang Bridge before it was officially open for traffic. The opening date was delayed due to a ship collision on 16 November 2009 that slightly damaged the side of the Jintang Bridge.
The 5.3-kilometer suspension bridge connection has a 2.6-kilometer main bridge with a central span of 1,650 meters. The approaches total 2.7 kilometers. When built, it was the second-longest suspension bridge ranked by the center span length after the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge in Japan.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Xihoumen Bridge" and modified on May 27, 2022 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (2008): Aerodynamic Investigation on a Long-Span Suspension Bridge with Central-Slotted Box Girder. Presented at: 17th IABSE Congress: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, Chicago, USA, 17-19 September 2008, pp. 74-75.
- (2009): Balinghe oltre Millau. In: Strade e Autostrade, v. 13, n. 76 (July 2009), pp. 64-68.
- (2009): China's Major Bridges. Presented at: IABSE Workshop: Recent Major Bridges, Shanghai, China, 11-12 May 2009, pp. 1-24.
- (2011): Dynamic Characteristics Studies of an Ultra-long Suspension Bridge. Presented at: 35th Annual Symposium of IABSE / 52nd Annual Symposium of IASS / 6th International Conference on Space Structures: Taller, Longer, Lighter - Meeting growing demand with limited resources, London, United Kingdom, September 2011.
- (2019): Wind characteristics and responses of Xihoumen Bridge during typhoons based on field monitoring. In: Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring, v. 9, n. 1 (February 2019), pp. 1-20.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20015467 - Published on:
09/03/2005 - Last updated on:
18/05/2022
