Jiaozhou Bay Bridge

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Jiaozhou Bay

The Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, also Qingdao Haiwan Bridge ( German translation: Great Sea Bridge ), Chinese青岛 胶州湾 大桥, Pinyin Jiaozhouwan Daqiao, English: Jiaozhou Bay Bridge or Qingdao Haiwan Bridge, is a 26.7 km long motorway bridge over the Jiaozhou bay in China. It is part of the 41.58 km long Jiaozhou Bay Connection Project, which is listed by Guinness World Records as the longest bridge over water.

In addition to the bridge, the bay is under sail through the Jiaozhou Bay tunnel, which was also put into operation in 2011.

Description of structure

Located on the southern coast of the Shandong Peninsula building connects the past to the Jiaozhou Bay of Qingdao and Huangdao city, so that shortens the way across the highway along the coast around 30 km away. The bridge has a turn-off to Qingdao Liuting airport. The opening and released to traffic on June 30, 2011.

The design of the bridge is from the Shandong Gaosu Group (Chinese山东 高速 集团). The building is designed so that it can withstand magnitude 8 earthquake, typhoons and ship collisions should. The traffic is routed in each direction to three lanes.

The building was designed in a construction period of four years by over ten thousand workers as a prestressed concrete bridge. There about 450,000 tons of steel and about 2.3 million tons of concrete were used. The company Maurer Söhne of Munich built on nearly two hundred bridge crossing expansion joints with a total compensation distance of 33.59 meters, a.

The Jiaozhou Bay Bridge has three major ports for shipping to: Cangkou the canal bridge, the Dagu Canal Bridge and the Hongdao canal bridge. The 600 meter long bridge has Cangkou channel with 260 meters the longest span in the whole building. The Hongdao canal bridge has a span of 120 meters. The remaining portions of the bridge have 60 meter wingspan.