Pont de Lacroix-Falgarde
Coordinates: 43 ° 28 ′ 56 " N , 1 ° 24 ′ 26" E
| Pont de Lacroix-Falgarde | ||
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| Convicted | D 4F Route de Lacroix-Falgarde | |
| Crossing of | Ariège | |
| place | Lacroix Falgarde | |
| construction | Prestressed concrete - box girder bridge | |
| overall length | 126 m | |
| width | 10.30 m | |
| Number of openings | three | |
| Longest span | 60 m | |
| start of building | 1961 | |
| completion | 1962 | |
| planner | STUP | |
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The Pont de Lacroix-Falgarde is a road bridge near Lacroix-Falgarde in southern France in the Haute-Garonne department . It leads the route départementale 4F over the Ariège .
The inconspicuous bridge has two lanes and sidewalks on both sides and replaced the single-lane steel truss bridge from 1903 (which has now also been closed to pedestrians) standing around 200 m upstream .
It is 120 m long and 10.30 m wide and has two pillars ; their pillar spacing is 33 + 60 + 33 m.
By Eugène Freyssinet office STUP planned and in the years 1961 and 1962 carried out haunched prestressed concrete - concrete box bridge the first prestressed concrete bridge was the world, have been eliminated from one to the hitherto customary joint in the middle of the bridge span and the two cantilevers monolithically together to form a continuous beam connected Has. The superstructure rests on the pillars with elastomer bearings .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marcel Prade: Les grands ponts du monde . Deuxième partie, Hors d'Europe. Brissaud à Poitiers, ISBN 2-902170-68-8 , p. 184