Polcevera Viaduct

General Information

Name in local language:	Viadotto sul Polcevera, "Ponte Morandi"
Beginning of works:	1962
Completion:	4 September 1967
Status:	collapsed (14 August 2018)

Structure:	Multiple-span cable-stayed bridge
Function / usage:	Motorway bridge / freeway bridge
Material:	Prestressed concrete bridge

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14 August 2018	The westernmost of the three pylons, the one nearest to the river, suddenly collapses in bad weather taking a significant portion of the deck as well as many cars and several trucks traveling across the bridge with it.

Design

Construction

Picon, Antoine (1997): L'art de l'ingénieur. constructeur, entrepeneur, inventeur. Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France), pp. 368.
Virlogeux, Michel (2001): Bridges with Multiple Cable-Stayed Spans. In: Structural Engineering International, v. 11, n. 1 (February 2001), pp. 61-82.
https://doi.org/10.2749/101686601780324250
Troitsky, M. S. (1977): Cable-Stayed Bridges. Theory and design. Crosby Lockwood Staples, London (United Kingdom), pp. 386.
Morandi, R. (1973): Construcción de puentes de hormigón pretensado, de gran luz, con tirantes homogeneizados. In: Hormigón y acero, v. 24, n. 109 (3rd Quarter 1973), pp. 95-116.
Sampò, Luca (2010): Form and Structural Invention in the Work of Riccardo Morandi. Presented at: IABSE Symposium, Large Structures and Infrastructures for Environmentally Constrained and Urbanised Areas, Venice, 22-24 September 2010, pp. 782.