Morača Bridge

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Coordinates: 42 ° 31 '50 "  N , 19 ° 20' 48"  E

Morača Bridge / Moračica Bridge
Morača Bridge / Moračica Bridge
The bridge shortly before completion in September 2019
use Highway
Crossing of Morača Gorge
place near Podgorica
construction Prestressed concrete - box girder bridge
overall length 960 m
width 23.4 m
Number of openings six
Longest span 190 m
height 195 m
start of building 2016
planner Proz Highway Consultants
location
Morača Bridge (Montenegro)
Morača Bridge
Moracica bridge near Podgorica 08.jpg
Bridge under construction in December 2018

The Morača Bridge (also Moračica Bridge ) is a motorway bridge under construction in Montenegro , which should be completed in March 2020. [outdated]

It spans the Morača near the village of Moračica north of Podgorica and serves to expand the Autoput Bar – Boljare . The Morača Bridge is being built by the China Road and Bridge Corporation . The costs are put at over 70 million euros.

The prestressed concrete box girder bridge , designed by CCCC Highway Consultants, is a total of 960 m long and 23.4 m wide. It spans the river bed of the Morača at an altitude of 195 m.

Its six openings have pillar spacing of 95 + 170 + 3 × 190 + 125 m. The highest of the five reinforced concrete - pillar measures 158.5 meters. The bridge has a uniform girder for both directional lanes with a two-cell, haunched hollow box with a trapezoidal cross-section, which is monolithically connected to the pillars. The rectangular hollow cross-section of the pillars is divided in the upper section into two lamellas that can adapt to the temperature-related changes in the length of the bridge. The bridge was cantilevered . The cantilever arms were concreted together to form a continuous beam so that the finished bridge consists of several frames .

First work on the new motorway in December 2016 with the construction site of the bridge in the foreground

In contrast to the existing traffic routes, the new motorway will not lead through the Morača gorge, but on the high plateau between the gorges of the Morača and Mala Rijeka rivers. In the part of the Morača Gorge south of the bridge, the new motorway gradually gains height, leading through several tunnels and over bridges, and then over the bridge to the high plateau on the other side of the valley. A little southwest of the bridge is a first, over 800 m long tunnel.

Web links

Commons : Moračica Bridge  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Aljoša Drobnjak: Moračica Bridge Proof that Montenegro Can Carry Out Complex Projects. In: Total Montenegro News. October 11, 2019, accessed December 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Andrea Jeska: China finances Autobahn in Montenegro - From Dream to Tragedy in the Frankfurter Rundschau on December 11, 2019, accessed on December 12, 2019
  3. ↑ a b CCCC-contracted Montenegro's Bridge Near Completion on the website of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC)
  4. ↑ a b Moracica Bridge. In: HighestBridges.com. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .