Chaotianmen Bridge
Chaotianmen Bridge | |
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| Coordinates | 29°35′20″N 106°34′38″E / 29.588871°N 106.57721°E |
| Carries | Trains, Motor vehicles, Pedestrians |
| Crosses | Yangtze River |
| Locale | Chongqing, China |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Through arch bridge |
| Total length | 1,741 m (5,712 ft) |
| Width | 36.5 m (120 ft) |
| Height | 142 m (466 ft) (middle supports to arch top) |
| Longest span | 552 m (1,811 ft) |
| History | |
| Construction start | December 2004 |
| Construction cost | 3.2 billion Yuan[1] |
| Opened | 30 April 2009 |
| Location | |
Interactive map of Chaotianmen Bridge | |
The Chaotianmen Bridge (simplified Chinese: 朝天门长江大桥; traditional Chinese: 朝天門長江大橋; pinyin: Cháotiān mén chángjiāng dàqiáo), is a road-rail bridge over the Yangtze River in the city of Chongqing, China. The bridge, which opened on 29 April 2009, is the world's longest through arch bridge.[2]
The continuous steel truss arch bridge with tie girders has a height of 142 m (466 ft) from middle supports to arch top, main span of 552 m (1,811 ft) and a total length of 1,741 m (5,712 ft). It carries six lanes of traffic with a pedestrian walkway on each side on the upper deck. The lower deck has 2 traffic lanes on each side with the Chongqing Metro Loop Line running down the middle.[3][4][5][6]
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Side view diagram of the bridge with lengths in meters
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A comparison of Chaotianmen Bridge with some of the most notable bridges on the same scale
See also
- Bridges and tunnels across the Yangtze River
- List of bridges in China
- List of longest arch bridge spans
References
- ^ "World's longest arch bridge opened to traffic in Chongqing". China Internet Information Center. Archived from the original on 21 January 2017.
- ^ CulturalChina.com, Chongqing completes world's longest arch bridge Archived 8 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, 30 April 2009.
- ^ Duan, Xuewei; Virola, Juhani; Ding, Dajun (2007). "The Chaotianmen Bridge– world's longest-span steel arch" (PDF). RIA. 1: 60–67. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011.
- ^ Duan, Xue-wei (10–14 July 2008). Design of Main Bridge of Chaotianmen Yangtze River Bridge (PDF). Chinese-Croatian Joint Colloquium on Long Arch Bridges. Croatian University of Zagreb and University of FuZhou. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 March 2010.
- ^ Duan, Xuewei; Xiao, Xiaoyan; Xu, Wei. "Design & technology characteristics of main bridge of Chaotianmen Yangtze River Bridge" (PDF). ARCH’10 – 6th International Conference on Arch Bridges. Wuhan, China: China Railway Bridge Reconnaissance & Design Institute Co., Ltd.
- ^ Duan, Xue-wei; Xu, Wei (2010). "重庆朝天门长江大桥主桥设计与技术特点" [Design and Technical Characteristics of Main Bridge of Chaotianmen Changjiang River Bridge in Chongqing]. Bridge Construction (in Chinese) (2). Wuhan: China Zhongtie Major Bridge Reconnaissance & Design Institute Co., Ltd.: 37–40. ISSN 1003-4722.
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