Sutong Bridge
Coordinates: 31 ° 47 ′ 22 " N , 121 ° 0 ′ 8" E
| Sutong Bridge 苏 通 大桥 |
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| use | Road bridge | |
| Crossing of | Yangtze River | |
| place | Nantong | |
| construction | Cable-stayed bridge | |
| overall length | 8206 m | |
| width | 24 m (total of 6 lanes) |
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| Longest span | 1088 m | |
| Clear height | 62 m | |
| vehicles per day | over 40,000 vehicles | |
| building-costs | 8.4 billion yuan approx. 1.13-1.48 billion euros |
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| start of building | June 27, 2003 | |
| completion | June 18, 2007 | |
| opening | June 30, 2008 | |
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The Sutong Bridge ( Chinese 蘇 通 大橋 / 苏 通 大桥 , Pinyin Sūtōng Dàqiáo - "Great Su zhou Nan tong Bridge"), officially: Sutong-Jangtsekiang Road Bridge ( 蘇 通 長江 公路 大橋 / 苏 通 长江 公路 大桥 , Sūtōng Chángjiāng Gōnglù Dàqiáo ), is a cable-stayed bridge , which has the world's second largest span with 1088 m , after the Russky Bridge near Vladivostok . The road bridge with a total length of 8,206 m and six lanes spans the Yangtze River in Jiangsu , China near the cities of Suzhou , more precisely Changshu , and Nantong . The structure was officially opened around a year before the planned construction time at the end of 2008 after around five years on June 30, 2008. The construction cost was approximately 8.4 billion yuan .
Between the prestressed concrete - girder bridges disposed main bridge, m is a cable-stayed bridge having a length of 2088th The central opening has a main span of 1088 m, which is continued on both sides with fields of 300 m each and two 100 m spans . The 41 m wide carriageway girder has a steel box girder cross section 4.0 m high. The 306 m high pylons have the shape of an "A" in the transverse direction and are made of reinforced concrete . The 272 stay cables are arranged in two levels with the fan system and are a maximum of 541 m long. The passage height for ships is 62 m with a clear passage width of 891 m.
In 2010 the bridge received the Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
On July 1, 2020, in the course of the commissioning of the Shanghai - Nantong line, in addition to road operations, rail operations began on the bridge.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Baidu Baike - Sutong-Jangtsekiang Bridge Brief Info - "百度 百科 - 苏 通 长江 大桥 简介", Chinese: [1] on wenku.baidu.com, accessed on June 18, 2018 - online
- ↑ Dorian Janjic - Structural Analysis of the Sutong Bridge (PDF file; 834 KB)
- ↑ China opens Shanghai - Nantong railway. In: International Railway Journal. July 1, 2020, accessed on July 3, 2020 .
Web links
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Official website of the bridge
operator company Jiangsu Sutong Bridge Co., Ltd. (Chinese) - Bridge sheet at bridge web
- Stefan Heer, Andreas Peter: Sutong Bridge - the world's largest cable-stayed bridge (PDF file; 7.5 MB)