Zhijinghe Bridge
The Zhijinghe Bridge is a 294-meter-high arched bridge with a 430-meter span that crosses the Zhijinghe River Valley in Hubei Province , China .
Located 80 kilometers south of the Yangtze River Gorge, the bridge is the tallest arch bridge in the world, a title held by the New River Gorge Bridge in the United States until 2001 . It was completed in 2009 and shortens the Shanghai – Chongqing motorway . The Siduhe Bridge is on the same G50 motorway , and until 2016 it was the highest bridge ever. The gorge between the cities of Enshi and Yichang is spanned with the construction made of concrete and steel with a roadway length of 547 meters. The arch is a so-called CFST construction (concrete filled steel tubes). It consists of eight steel tubes with a diameter of 1200 millimeters and wall thicknesses between 24 and 35 millimeters, which are connected by a grid network and, after assembly, were filled with concrete pressed in from below. Tunnels are immediately adjacent to both sides of the bridge .
Web links
- Zhijinghe Bridge on HighestBridges.com
- Steel tubular arch of Zhijinghe CFST Arch Bridge Will Be Closed This Year. Arch Bridges, College of Civil Engineering, Fuzhou University (March 1, 2014 memento in the Internet Archive )
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Coordinates: 30 ° 38 ′ 29 ″ N , 110 ° 11 ′ 37 ″ E