Tagus River Bridge

General Information

Structure:	Suspension bridge
Function / usage:	Motorway bridge / freeway bridge Railroad (railway) bridge
Material:	Steel bridge

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approach viaduct	total length	945.11 m
main bridge	span lengths	2 × 99.64 m - 483.42 m - 1 012.88 m - 483.42 m - 98.64 m

Subcontractor

Cable steel supplier

Bearings

Maurer Söhne GmbH & Co. KG

Initial construction (1962-1966)

Design

Architecture

Wind tunnel testing

Construction engineers

Contractor

Reconfiguration

Design

Renovation

Steel construction

Suspender replacement

Cables

Gesner, George A. / Jardim, José (1998): Bridge Within a Bridge. In: Civil Engineering Magazine, v. 68, n. 10 (October 1998).
Brown, David J. (1993): Bridges. Macmillan Publishing Company, New York (USA), pp. 114-115.
Torres Arcila, Martha (2002): Bridges - Ponts - Brücken. Atrium, Mexico City (Mexico), pp. 54-61.
Graf, Bernhard (2002): Bridges that Changed the World. Prestel, Munich (Germany), pp. 100-101.
Leonhardt, Fritz (1994): Brücken / Bridges. Ästhetik und Gestaltung / Aesthetics and Design. 4^th edition, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart (Germany), pp. 292.