Mala Rijeka Viaduct
The Mala Rijeka Viaduct is a 498.8 m long bridge on the Belgrade – Bar railway line in Montenegro . At 198 m above the valley floor and 137.5 m high pillars , it is the highest railway bridge in Europe.
The single-track bridge structure, built from 1969 to 1973, spans the deeply cut valley of the Mala Rijeka river between the Kolašin and Bioče train stations . The route turns into tunnels on both sides of the bridge.
As a static system, the girder bridge has a continuous girder with five fields in the longitudinal direction , the span widths of 81.2 m, 92.8 m, 150.8 m, 92.8 m and 81.2 m. Except for one end span, the bridge is curved in plan.
The 2650 tonne superstructure is a steel framework box girder . It consists of two at a distance of 6.5 m arranged 12 m high diamond trusses with parallel upper and lower chords, with wind associations are interconnected. The track runs inside the box girder over the lower wind bracing.
The pillars are built on rock, with 8000 m³ of concrete being required for each foundation . The piers were constructed using sliding formwork , and the superstructure was cantilevered .
literature
- Hans Pottgießer: Railway bridges from two centuries . Birkhäuser Verlag Basel, 1985. ISBN 3-7643-1677-2
Web links
- Bridge Description ( Memento of 19 April 2008 at the Internet Archive ), originally (English) on www.yu-build.com
Coordinates: 42 ° 33 ′ 9 ″ N , 19 ° 23 ′ 15 ″ E