Caruthersville Bridge
Coordinates: 36 ° 6 ′ 54 " N , 89 ° 36 ′ 47" W.
| Caruthersville Bridge | ||
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 Interstate 155 U.S. Highway 412
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| Crossing of | Mississippi River | |
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Caruthersville , Missouri and Dyersburg , Tennessee |
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| Entertained by | Missouri Department of Transportation | |
| construction | Truss bridge | |
| overall length | 2165 m | |
| width | 25 m | |
| Longest span | 280 m | |
| Clear height | 16 m | |
| completion | 1976 | |
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The Caruthersville Bridge is a four-lane road bridge over the Mississippi River between Caruthersville , Missouri and Dyersburg , Tennessee . It is the northernmost bridge on the lower reaches of the river and the only one along its course between Cairo and Memphis . The truss bridge runs Interstate 155 and US Highway 412 and is the only direct road link between the states of Missouri and Tennessee.
history
The first initiatives for a bridge near Caruthersville go back to 1946, but government approval was only granted 18 years later in 1964. Construction began in 1969 and after another seven years, the bridge was opened in December 1976.
description
The central element of the main bridge is a 439 meter long steel lattice girder , which is designed as an asymmetrical tanner girder . It forms spans of 280 meters above the shipping channel on the Tennessee side in the south and 159 meters towards the Missouri side in the north. The truss girders are followed on both sides by five girder bridges made of solid steel girders measuring 4 × 72 m and 1 × 40 m; This is followed by a large number of further reinforced concrete girder bridges, each 27 meters in length. The bridge rests on a total of 58 reinforced concrete pillars and extends over a total length of 2165 meters.
See also
Web links
- Caruthersville Bridge. Bridgehunter.com
- Caruthersville Bridge: I-155 Mississippi River Crossing At Caruthersville. John A. Weeks III.
Individual evidence
- ^ Gina Cordell: Mississippi River Bridges. Tennessee Encyclopedia, October 8, 2017.
- ^ Richard J. Huizinga: Two-Dimensional Simulation of Flow and Evaluation of Bridge Scour at Structure A-1700 on Interstate 155 over the Mississippi River near Caruthersville, Missouri. Scientific Investigations Report 2007–5230, US Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia: 2007.
- ↑ Amr S. Elnashai, Luigi Di Sarno: Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering: From Source to Fragility. John Wiley & Sons, 2015, ISBN 978-1-118-67892-3 , pp. 368-370.