Normandy Bridge
General Information
| Structural Type: |
Cable-stayed bridge
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| Function / usage: |
Motorway bridge / freeway bridge
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| Built: | 1989 - 1995 |
| Status: | in use |
Geographic Information & Related Structures
| Location: |
Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76), Haute-Normandie, France, Europe Honfleur, Calvados (14), Basse-Normandie, France, Europe |
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| Crosses |
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| Near |
Passerelle de l'aire de la Baie de Seine (1995)
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| Connects to |
Grand Canal Bridge at Le Havre (1994)
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| Coordinates: | 49° 26' 10.00" N 0° 16' 24.00" E |
| Coordinates: | 49° 25' 42.00" N 0° 16' 28.00" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 856.00 m | |
| total length | 2141 m | |
| deck | deck width | 21.20 - 22.30 m |
| girder depth | 3.00 m | |
| pylon | pylon height | 214.77 m |
| pylon height (above deck) | 155.70 m |
Quantities
| structural steel | 5 700 t | |
| concrete volume | 80 000 m3 | |
| prestressing steel | 800 t | |
| reinforcing steel | 11 600 t | |
| steel for cable-stays | 2 000 t | |
| paint | 16 600 m2 |
Materials
| approaches |
prestressed concrete
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| deck of main span |
prestressed concrete
steel |
| pylons |
reinforced concrete
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Chronology
| September 1990 - 1992 | Construction of foundations. |
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| August 1991 - August 1993 | Construction of access ramps. |
| September 1991 - August 1993 | Construction of the pylons. |
| January 1992 - August 1994 | Assembly of the metal section of the bridge's main deck. |
| October 1992 - October 1993 | Construction of the prestressed concrete deck section of the main bridge by cantilever construction. |
Notes
Part of the deck cantilevering out from the pylons was built as a hollow box made of prestressed concrete, but about two thirds of the deck are made of a steel.
Due to the earth's curvature and the great length of the bridge, the distance between the pylons is 2 cm greater at the top than at the base.
Participants
- Robert H. Scanlan (expert to the contractors)
- Charles Lavigne (architect)
- Alain Montois (architect)
- François Doyelle (architect)
- Alan G. Davenport
- Bernard Raspaud (structural engineer)
- Brice Girard (project manager) (pylon heads)
Owner
Client
Design
- CETE de Rouen
- Quadric
- SEEE
- Setec TPI
- SOFRESID
- SOGELERG
- Service d'Etudes Techniques des Routes et Autoroutes
Wind tunnel testing
Subconsultant
Co-contractor
- Bouygues Construction
- Campenon Bernard
- Dumez-GTM
- Monberg & Thorsen
- Quillery
- SOGEA
- Spie Batignolles TP
Subcontractor
- Bilfinger Berger SE (piles)
- Dillinger Stahlbau GmbH (pylon heads)
- Pont Equipement
- Prezioso sas
- S.D.E.M.
- Secométal S.A. (pylon heads)
Stay cables
Steel supplier
Cable steel supplier
- Bridon International (vibration damping cables)
Expansion joints
Roadway & drainage
Relevant Web Sites
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Bernd Nebel: Brücken: Brücken in Europa: Pont de Normandie
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Bridge Pros: Le Pont de Normandie
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Carte-Postale: Pont de Normandie
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LCPC Image Gallery: Normandy Bridge
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Planète TP: Le pont de Normandie
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SCMF: Pont de Normandie
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SETEC TPI: Références ouvrages d'art: Pont de Normandie
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Sétra: PILES: Pont de Normandie (1995)
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Wikipedia: Pont de Normandie
Relevant Publications
- Inauguration du Pont de Normandie: 20 janvier 1995, in "Ouvrages d'art", March 1995, n. 20
- Le projet du pont de Honfleur, in "Bulletin annuel AFPC", 1980- 1982
- La plus grande portée (856 m) de travée centrale d'un pont à haubans, in "Travaux", January 1992, n. 672
- Monitoring adjustment of the geometry and cable tension of cable-stayed bridges built using the balanced cantilever method, presented at Ponts suspendus et à haubans. Cable-stayed and suspension bridges, Deauville, 12.-15.10.1994.
- The pile foundation of the Pont de Normandie, presented at Ponts suspendus et à haubans. Cable-stayed and suspension bridges, Deauville, 12.-15.10.1994.
- High-performance Concrete (1st edition), E & FN SPON, London (United Kingdom), ISBN 0419192700, 1998
- Béton haute performance, Eyrolles, Paris (France), ISBN 221201323X, 2001
- Organization of the Pont de Normandie GIE Consortium, presented at Ponts suspendus et à haubans. Cable-stayed and suspension bridges, Deauville, 12.-15.10.1994.
- Ponts sur Seine, Editions des Falaises, Rouen (France), ISBN 284811083X, 2008; pp. 84-87
- L'implantation du pont de Normandie dans le remarquable milieu naturel de l'estuaire de la Seine, in "Travaux", May 1992, n. 676
- Wind studies for the Normandy Bridge, presented at Ponts suspendus et à haubans. Cable-stayed and suspension bridges, Deauville, 12.-15.10.1994.
- Erection of the main span segments for the Normandy Stay Cable Bridge, in "VSL News", 1999, n. 1 v. 10
- Erection of the main span segments of the Normandy stay cable bridge, in "VSL News", 1994, n. 1 v. 5
- Ten Years of Structural Engineering International, in "Structural Engineering International", February 2001, n. 1 v. 11
- Conception de la liaison entre les parties en acier et en béton du pont de Normandie, presented at .
- Conception de la liaison entre les parties en acier et en béton du pont de Normandie, presented at Symposium Leningrad. USSR. 11-14/09/1991.
- Le tassement des appuis du pont de Normandie, in "Bulletin des Laboratoires des Ponts et Chaussées", September - December 2003, n. 246-247
- Wind effects on the Normandie cable-stayed bridge: comparison between full aeroelastic model tests and quasi-steady analytical approach, presented at Ponts suspendus et à haubans. Cable-stayed and suspension bridges, Deauville, 12.-15.10.1994.
- The consistent safety of long span bridges against wind with special reference to "le Pont de Normandie", presented at Ponts suspendus et à haubans. Cable-stayed and suspension bridges, Deauville, 12.-15.10.1994.
- Normandie Bridge , presented at Long-Span and High-Rise Structures, IABSE Symposium, Kobe, 1998.
- Montage et gestion technique du projet, presented at Ponts suspendus et à haubans. Cable-stayed and suspension bridges, Deauville, 12.-15.10.1994.
- Design of Normandy Cable-Stayed Bridge, Near Honfleur, presented at International Conference on Cable-Stayed Bridges, Proceedings, November 18-20, 1987, Bangkok (Thailand).
- Le point sur le "Pont de Normandie", in "Ouvrages d'art", July 1991, n. 10
- Pont de Normandie: les travaux sont commencés, in "Travaux", July 1990, n. 655
- Le pont de Normandie s'élève, in "Travaux", July 1992, n. 678
- Le pont de Normandie. Pont à haubans sur la Seine entre Le Havre et Honfleur, in "Travaux", April 1989, n. 642
- Le pont de Normandie, altitude 215 m, in "Travaux", April 1993, n. 686
- Le Pont de Normandie, Le Cherche Midi Éditeur, Paris (France), ISBN 2862743348, 1995
- Design and construction of the Normandie Bridge, presented at Bridges — Interaction between construction technology and design, IABSE Symposium, Leningrad, USSR 1991.
- Le point sur le pont de Normandie, in "Annales de l'Institut Technique du Bâtiment et des Travaux Publics", September 1993, n. 516
- L'architecture et les ingénieurs, Moniteur, Paris (France), ISBN 2281190994, 1997; pp. 148
- The incremental launching method of the Pont de Normandie approach viaducts, presented at Ponts suspendus et à haubans. Cable-stayed and suspension bridges, Deauville, 12.-15.10.1994.
- Bridge engineering, Thomas Telford, London (United Kingdom), ISBN 0727732153, 2003; pp. 592, 627
- Contractors' general design and organization of the Pont de Normandie Consortium (GIE), presented at Ponts suspendus et à haubans. Cable-stayed and suspension bridges, Deauville, 12.-15.10.1994.
- Pont de Normandie, in "Bulletin ponts métalliques", 1994, n. 17
- Freyssinet cable-stayed structures, Freyssinet International, Vélizy-Villacoublay (France), 2004; pp. 12-13
- Du pont de Normandie (France) au pont de Ting Kau (Hong-Kong), presented at La Technique française du béton, XIIIe congrès de la FIB, Amsterdam 1998.
- Surveillance programme for stay cables (example of Normandy Bridge), presented at Extending the Lifespan of Structures, IABSE Symposium, San Francisco, August 1995.
- The Normandy Bridge stays, presented at Ponts suspendus et à haubans. Cable-stayed and suspension bridges, Deauville, 12.-15.10.1994.
- Synthèse des travaux du projet national BHP 2000 sur les bétons à hautes performances, Presses de l'Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris (France), ISBN 285978408X, 2005
- Pont de Normandie, in "Ouvrages d'art", November 1992, n. 13
- Die Ästhetik moderner Schrägseilbrücken, in "Baukultur", 1998, n. 3
- Building the Normandy Bridge. Construction of the two pylons, presented at Ponts suspendus et à haubans. Cable-stayed and suspension bridges, Deauville, 12.-15.10.1994.
- 100 Monuments du XXe Siècle, Editions France Loisirs, Paris (France), ISBN 2744134961, 2000; pp. 218-219
- Temperature in the Box Girder of the Normandy Bridge, in "Structural Engineering International", 2005, n. 3 v. 15
- Manufacture and erection of the steel main span, presented at Ponts suspendus et à haubans. Cable-stayed and suspension bridges, Deauville, 12.-15.10.1994.
- Les ponts modernes - vingtième siècle, Picard Éditeur, Paris (France), ISBN 2708404849, 1995; pp. 259-263
- Les plus beaux ponts de France, Bonneton, Paris (France), ISBN 2862532754, 2001; pp. 176-177
- Pont de Normandie, in "Ouvrages d'art", November 1994, n. 19
- Die Normandiebrücke über die Seinemündung bei Le Havre, in "Stahlbau", August 1995, n. 8 v. 64
- Le pont de Normandie, in "American Scientist", September 1995, n. 5 v. 83
- L'art de l'ingénieur, Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France), ISBN 2858509115, 1997; pp. 336-338
- Les grands ponts du monde: Ponts remarquables d'Europe, Brissaud, Poitiers (France), ISBN 2902170653, 1990
- Le Passage (1st edition), Everest Communication, Luxembourg (Luxembourg), ISBN 287996976X, 1999; pp. 82-85
- The Normandy Bridge. Finite element analysis, presented at Ponts suspendus et à haubans. Cable-stayed and suspension bridges, Deauville, 12.-15.10.1994.
- Up and away to a world record, in "Engineering News Record", 19 September 1994
- The French Composite: A Bridge for Normandy, in "Civil Engineering Magazine", February 1993, n. 2 v. 63
- Weitgespannte Brücken / Long-Span Bridges, in "Detail - Zeitschrift für Architektur + Baudetail", December 1999, n. 8 v. 39
- Die Normandie-Brücke, in "Bautechnik", January 1992, n. 1 v. 69
- Die Normandie-Brücke, in "Bautechnik", August 1995, n. 8 v. 72
- Die Normandie-Brücke (Pont de Normandie), in "Beton- und Stahlbetonbau", December 1995, n. 12 v. 90
- Building the Normandy Bridge: the concrete cantilevers, presented at Ponts suspendus et à haubans. Cable-stayed and suspension bridges, Deauville, 12.-15.10.1994.
- Schrägkabelbrücken (1st edition), Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH, Berlin (Germany), ISBN 3433029776, 2011; pp. 404-412
- The design of steel parts, presented at Ponts suspendus et à haubans. Cable-stayed and suspension bridges, Deauville, 12.-15.10.1994.
- Bridges - Ponts - Brücken, Atrium, Mexico City (Mexico), ISBN 8495692619, 2002; pp. 318-327
- Wind Design and Analysis for the Normandy Bridge, presented at Structural Engineering in Natural Hazards Mitigation (v. 1, Proceedings of papers presented at the Structures Congress 1993, Irvine, California).
- Le projet du Pont de Normandie, in "Annales des Ponts et Chaussées", 2nd Quarter 1989
- Normandie Bridge Design and Construction, in "Structures and Buildings", August 1993 v. 99
- Le point sur le pont de Normandie, in "Annales de l'Institut Technique du Bâtiment et des Travaux Publics", October 1993, n. 517
- Normandie Bridge, presented at Structures Congress XII - Proceedings v.1, Atlanta (Georgia), 1994.
- Design of cables for cable-stayed bridges: the example of the Normandy bridge, presented at La Technique française du béton, XIIIe congrès de la FIB, Amsterdam 1998.
- Normandie Bridge, France, in "Structural Engineering International", November 1994, n. 4 v. 4
- Les études du pont de Normandie, in "Travaux", April 1993, n. 686
- Design of the Normandy Bridge, presented at Ponts suspendus et à haubans. Cable-stayed and suspension bridges, Deauville, 12.-15.10.1994.
- Design and construction of the Normandie bridge, presented at .
- Design and construction of the Normandie bridge, presented at Symposium Leningrad. USSR. 11-14/09/1991.
- Le projet pont de Normandie, in "Bulletin ponts métalliques", n. 12
- Design and Construction of Normandy Cable-Stayed Bridge, Near Honfleur, presented at International Conference on Cable-Stayed Bridges, Proceedings, November 18-20, 1987, Bangkok (Thailand).
- 30 Bridges, Laurence King, ISBN 1856692175, 2002; pp. 174-179
- 30 Brücken, Callwey Verlag, Munich (Germany), ISBN 3766715011; pp. 174-179
Internal Information
| Structure-ID: | s0000048 |
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| Created: | 28/10/1998 |
| Last Updated: | 21/05/2013 |