General Information
| Completion: | 17 October 1988 |
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| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Structure: |
Cable-stayed bridge with semi-fan system |
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| Function / usage: |
Road bridge |
| Structure: |
Three-span cable-stayed bridge |
| Secondary structure(s): |
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Location
| Location: |
Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico Veracruz, Mexico |
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| Coordinates: | 22° 13' 40.56" N 97° 50' 13.38" W |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 360 m | |
| total length | 1 543 m |
Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Tampico Bridge (Spanish:Puente Tampico) is a vehicular cable-stayed bridge connecting the Mexican states of Tamaulipas and Veracruz in eastern Mexico.
Geography
The bridge crosses the Pánuco River near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
It connects the city of Tampico in Tamaulipas and Pueblo Viejo Municipality in Veracruz.
Design and engineering
The bridge has been in service since 1988 and was designed by Professor Modesto Armijo from COMEC, a Mexican engineering company. It was designed to withstand the severe Atlantic hurricanes from the Gulf of Mexico.
The bridge uses an orthotropic steel deck girder for a central section of the 360 metres (1,180 ft) long main span, while the rest of the main span and the short lateral spans are a prestressed concrete girder. Both steel and concrete deck girders have the same external shape. This original design principle was later used for the 756-metre (2,480 ft) main span of the Pont de Normandie, a cable-stayed bridge in Normandy, France.
The dynamic analysis of the bridge under turbulent cyclonic winds, as well as the revision of the structural project, and the geometry plus stress control of the bridge during erection, were achieved by Alain Chauvin from Sogelerg, using the French "Scanner" computer program.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Tampico Bridge" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (1991): Dynamic Structural Properties of Cable‐Stayed Tampico Bridge. In: Journal of Structural Engineering (ASCE), v. 117, n. 11 (November 1991), pp. 3396-3416.
- (1990): Le pont de Tampico (Mexique). Presented at: La Technique Française du Béton, XIe Congrès de la FIP Hambourg 1990, pp. 117-120.
- (1990): The Tampico bridge in Mexico. Presented at: IABSE Symposium: Mixed Structures, including New Materials = Construction mixte acier, béton et nouveaux matériaux = Misch- und Verbundbauweisen einschliesslich neuer Baustoffe, Brussels, Belgium, 1990.
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20003519 - Published on:
10/06/2002 - Last updated on:
21/10/2016
