Three-chord bridge

This article describes one way of building bridges. For the railway bridge of the same name over the Rur in Düren, see Dreigurtbrücke (Düren) .

Three-belt bridge over the Dortmund-Ems Canal in Lüdinghausen , 2016.

Three-belt bridge of a former forest railway in Hokkaido , 1999.

A three-chord bridge is the special design of a strut truss bridge , which has a total of three chords and three structural surfaces. This type of bridge was invented by Anton von Rieppel . That is why it is also called the Rieppelbrücke .

There are two railway three-belt bridges in Germany, one in Düren and one in Lüdinghausen . The three-chord bridge in Düren has two tracks, while the one in Lüdinghausen was built with only one track.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dortmund-Ems Canal Trigger for the construction of the railway bridge . In: Westfälische Nachrichten . October 29, 2007, accessed January 12, 2020