River Suir Bridge

52.278805555556 - 7.151Koordinaten: 52 ° 16 ' 43.7 "N, 7 ° 9' 3.6 " W

F1

N25

Suir

The River Suir Bridge (Irish Droichead na Siúire ) spans at Waterford in Ireland the River Suir. The road bridge has two lanes in each direction of travel of the N25, which bypasses on a new route Waterford since its completion in 2009. The asymmetric cable bridge has 230 m to the largest span of a bridge in Ireland.

Construction

The 30.6 m wide and 465 m long structure has five openings with spans of 40 m, 70 m, 90 m, 230 m and 35 m. The roadway deck is a steel composite construction that is carried in the main opening of 38 ropes. The carrying cables with 25 cm to 40 cm in diameter and a maximum of 225 m in length are arranged in two planes and anchored in a 112 -meter-high A-pylon made ​​of reinforced concrete. The pylon supporting, manufactured with a climbing formwork, bottom at a distance of 53 m and are based on 94 steel piles. The river port was built by the balanced cantilever, the deck slab made ​​with precast concrete elements.

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