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Bridges and Viaducts
A bridge or a viaduct is a structure built to span a physical obstacle such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over that very obstacle.
Most Important Structures in this Category
- entry with pictures
- new entry (30 days)
- updated entry (14 days)
| # | Name | Country | main span |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Akashi Kaikyo Bridge | Japan | 1991 m |
| 2 | Xihoumen Bridge | China | 1650 m |
| 3 | Great Belt East Bridge | Denmark | 1624 m |
| 4 | Osman Gazi Bridge | Turkey | 1550 m |
| 5 | Yi Sun-Sin Bridge | South Korea | 1545 m |
| 6 | Runyang Yangtze River North Bridge | China | 1490 m |
| 7 | Fourth Nanjing Yangtze Bridge | China | 1418 m |
| 8 | Humber Bridge | United Kingdom | 1410 m |
| 9 | Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge | Turkey | 1408 m |
| 10 | Jiangyin Yangtze River Bridge | China | 1385 m |
Note: there are too many entries in this category and all its subcategories combined. To obtain a list of structures please go through one of the subcategories.
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Case Studies & Reports
Triple protection for railroad bridge in Greece
A combination of large hydraulic dampers, sliding isolation pendulums and shear keys protects the new railroad bridge SG26 in Greece against seismi ... more
Challenging pylon scaffolding on Rotterdam's Willems Bridge
The refurbishment of the pylons on Rotterdam's Willems Bridge proved to be a tremendous challenge for installing the scaffolding. All scaffolding a ... more
Permanent repair of the San Antonio Y Interchange (Texas, USA)
The San Antonio Y Interchange in the centre of San Antonio, Texas, USA, is a Y shaped interchange between US Highway 35 from the northeast and US H ... more
Subcategories
- 3D-Printed Bridges
- Balanced cantilever method
- Cantilever construction using temporary cable-stays
- Cantilever construction using temporary stays in vertical position, then rotation into horizontal
- Climbing formwork
- Composite prefabricated girders with in-situ deck slab
- Formwork carriage
- In-situ casting on falsework
- Incremental launching
- Lateral / transverse launching
- Longitudinal launching
- Precast concrete elements with in-situ joints
- Precast girders with cast-in-situ slab
- Rotation around a horizontal axis
- Rotation around a vertical axis
- Segmental construction
- Tarzan method
Literature
- (2017): Historia de los puentes. Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Madrid (Spain), ISBN 978-84-380-0518-7, pp. 341.
- (2017): Chronik des Brückenbaus. In: 27. Dresdner Brückenbausymposium., ISBN 978-3-86780-510-0, pp. 187-202.
- (2015): Brückenbau in Deutschland – eine Auswahl zukünftiger Schwerpunkte. Presented at: 25. Dresdener Brückenbausysmposium, 9./10. März 2015, Dresden (Germany).
- (2014): Die Bedeutung der technischen Entwicklung im Brückenbau in Deutschland vom Wiederaufbau bis heute. Presented at: 24. Dresdener Brückenbausysmposium, 10./11. März 2014, Dresden (Germany).
- (2018): 100 Jahre Dauerhaftigkeit für Brücken- und Tunnelbauwerke. Presented at: 28. Dresdener Brückenbausysmposium, 12./13. März 2018, Dresden (Germany), pp. 157-168.
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