Alamillo Bridge
General Information
| Structural Type: |
Cable-stayed bridge without backstays
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| Function / usage: |
Road bridge
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| Other name(s): | Puente del Alamillo |
| Built: | 1987 - 1992 |
| Status: | in use |
Geographic Information & Related Structures
| Location: |
Sevilla, Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain, Europe |
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| Coordinates: | 37° 24' 48.00" N 5° 59' 26.00" W |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 200 m | |
| total length | 250 m | |
| number of cables | 26 | |
| pylon | height | 142 m |
| angle of inclination | 58° |
Materials
| cables |
steel
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| pylon |
reinforced concrete
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| deck |
reinforced concrete
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Products, Services & Reports
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Notes
This is the only cable-supported bridge that is not back-anchored. The bridge is balanced solely through added weights.
Participants
Design
Architecture
Stay cables
Relevant Web Sites
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archINFORM: Alamillo Bridge
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Bernd Nebel: Santiago Calatravas Alamillobrücke in Sevilla
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Broer.no: Puente del Alamillo
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Santiago Calatrava - The Unofficial Site: Alamillo Bridge
Relevant Publications
- D'une rive à l'autre / Brücken dieser Welt (4)(television documentary)
- Puente del Alamillo, in "El Croquis", 1992, n. 57
- Shaping Structures, John Wiley & Sons, New York (USA), ISBN 0471169684, 1998; pp. 162-165
- Most Alamillo a viadukt La Cartuja, Sevilla / Alamillo Bridge and La Cartuja Viaduct, Sevilla, in "zlatý rez", n. 16
- A Combined Method for Measuring Cable Forces: The Cable-Stayed Alamillo Bridge, Spain, in "Structural Engineering International", November 1994, n. 4 v. 4
- Calatrava Bridges, Birkhäuser, Basel (Switzerland), ISBN 3764353643, 1996; pp. 54-73
- Bridges that Changed the World, Prestel, Munich (Germany), ISBN 3791327011, 2002; pp. 106-107
- Brücken, die die Welt verbinden, Prestel, Munich (Germany), ISBN 3791327003, 2002; pp. 106-107
- Santiago Calatrava, Taschen, Cologne (Germany), ISBN 3822878839, 1998; pp. 54-59
- Amortiguadores puente del Alamillo e instrumentación de tirantes, presented at IV Congreso de la Asociación Científico-Tecnica del Hormigón Estructural - Congreso Internacional de Estructuras, Valencia, 24-27.11.2008.
- Santiago Calatrava, Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA), ISBN 0870701649, 1993; pp. 38-39
- L'art de l'ingénieur, Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France), ISBN 2858509115, 1997; pp. 47-48
- What Is a Bridge?, MIT Press, Cambridge (USA), ISBN 0262161745, 1999
- Le Passage (1st edition), Everest Communication, Luxembourg (Luxembourg), ISBN 287996976X, 1999; pp. 65-67
Internal Information
| Structure-ID: | s0000002 |
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| Created: | 28/10/1998 |
| Last Updated: | 05/03/2013 |