Meuse bridge Sclayn
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 27 ″ N , 5 ° 1 ′ 34 ″ E
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| use | Road bridge | |
| Crossing of | Meuse | |
| place | Andenne –Sclayn | |
| construction | Prestressed concrete bridge | |
| overall length | 142 m | |
| width | 10 m | |
| Number of openings | three | |
| Pillar spacing | 62.70 m | |
| start of building | March 1949 | |
| completion | December 1949 | |
| opening | February 10, 1950 | |
| planner | Gustave Magnel , Birguer | |
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The Meuse Bridge Sclayn is a road bridge over the Meuse in Sclayn, a place in 1977 united with Andenne in the province of Namur in the Walloon part of Belgium .
It connects Sclayn with Sclaigneaux and Vezin, places that now also belong to Andenne.
The bridge designed by Gustave Magnel was the first prestressed concrete bridge in Belgium and had the first prestressed continuous beam .
prehistory
The first bridge over the Meuse in Sclayn was an iron truss bridge built between 1888 and 1889 . It was blown up by Belgian troops during World War I in 1914 in order to stop the German advance.
The second bridge was a steel truss bridge built by the Germans in 1915. It was blown up during World War II in 1940 by Belgian troops retreating from the Wehrmacht.
The third bridge is the current prestressed concrete bridge, which was built between March 5 and December 15, 1949 and inaugurated on February 10, 1950.
description
It has a 7 m wide carriageway with two lanes and sidewalks 1.5 m wide on both sides. In the longitudinal profile it is clearly arched upwards in order to guarantee a passage height of 7 m and on the other hand to enable relatively low road connections.
The bridge has two 62.70 m long fields over the river and one 16 m long field over the flood bed. The track support over the river is a dreizelliger prestressed concrete - concrete box , which as a continuous beam is constructed. It is 4.75 m high at the river pillar and 1.41 m at the outer ends. The 36 tensioning cables each consist of 48 wires with a diameter of 7 mm. They are anchored at both ends of the box girder in 3 m long solid reinforced concrete blocks, but otherwise only connected to the box girder in sections and accessible for inspection purposes. The fringing area is a T- beam stretched lengthways and crossways .
The bridge was renovated in 1990 and 1991.
Web links
- Pont de Sclayn (1950)
- Erwin Storrer: Inauguration du pont en bèton précontraint sur la Meuse, à Sclayn. Imprimerie GIG, Brussels 1950 ( digitized PDF; 9 KB)
- Erwin Storrer: Le Pont de Sclayn sur la Meuse. Imprimerie GIG, Brussels 1950 ( digitized PDF; 25 KB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Menn: Reinforced concrete bridges . Springer-Verlag, Vienna, New York 1986, ISBN 3-211-81936-3 , p. 31
- ↑ a b c Inauguration du pont en bèton précontraint sur la Meuse, à Sclayn.
- ↑ a b Le Pont de Sclayn sur la Meuse.
- ↑ Scheepvaartwegennet (Belgian network of shipping routes) PDF; 231 KB
- ^ Rehabilitation of the bridge