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High bridge rests on designers' headaches
73-ft wide, 2296-ft long "Europa Bridge" will carry super-highway 623-ft high over valley with 4% grade; it will have 6 steel box girder spans with orthotropic plate deck; 5 slender tapered piers have different heights, from 480-ft to 120-ft and are 3-chamber hollow reinforced concrete structures; concrete foundations of 2 main piers are 112 and 140-ft deep and one is of 3-compartment hollow box structure; foundation testing.
High bridge rests on designers' headaches
73-ft wide, 2296-ft long "Europa Bridge" will carry super-highway 623-ft high over valley with 4% grade; it will have 6 steel box girder spans with orthotropic plate deck; 5 slender tapered piers have different heights, from 480-ft to 120-ft and are 3-chamber hollow reinforced concrete structures; concrete foundations of 2 main piers are 112 and 140-ft deep and one is of 3-compartment hollow box structure; foundation testing.
High bridge rests on designers' headaches
Eng News-Rec
Engineering News-Record ; 166
1961
4 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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