Ting Kau Bridge
General Information
| Structural Type: |
Multiple-span cable-stayed bridge
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| Function / usage: |
Motorway bridge / freeway bridge
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| Built: | 1995 - 1998 |
| Status: | in use |
Geographic Information & Related Structures
| Location: |
Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, China, Asia Tsing Yi, Kwai Tsing, Hong Kong, China, Asia |
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Technical Information
Dimensions
| total length | 1 675 m | |
| cables | strands per cable | 20 - 60 (15 mm) |
| deck | width | 2 x 18.77 m |
| number of lanes | 2 x 3 | |
| main bridge | total length | 1 177 m |
| span lengths | 127 m - 448 m - 475 m - 127 m | |
| piers | height | max. 65 m |
| number of piers | 21 | |
| pylon Central | height | 194 m |
| pylon head Central | height | 31 m |
| weight | 190 m | |
| pylon head Ting Kau | height | 21 m |
| weight | 140 t | |
| pylon head Tsing Yi | height | 162 m |
| weight | 140 t | |
| pylon Ting Kau | height | 167 m |
| pylon Tsing Yi | height | 162 m |
| stay cables | number of cables | 384 |
Quantities
| volume of extracted material | 675 000 m3 | |
| volume of earthworks | 50 000 m3 |
Materials
| towers |
reinforced concrete
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| deck slab |
reinforced concrete
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| cross beams |
steel
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| girders |
steel
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Participants
Owner
Client
Design
Wind tunnel testing
Checking engineering
Co-contractor
- Cubiertas y MZOV
- Downer & Co. Ltd
- Ed. Züblin AG
- Entrecanales y Tavora S.A.
- Paul Y. Construction Co. Ltd.
Precastor
Subcontractor
Earthworks
Stay cables
Prestressing
Material supplier
Concrete supplier
Steel supplier
Reinforcing steel
Bearings
Expansion joints
Roadway cover
Formwork
Construction supervision
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- The Ting Kau Bridge in Hong Kong, presented at Long-Span and High-Rise Structures, IABSE Symposium, Kobe, 1998.
- Ting Kau Bridge, Hong Kong, in "Structural Engineering International", August 1996, n. 3 v. 6
- Ting Kau cable-stayed bridge: challenges in the construction process, presented at IABSE Conference, Malmö 1999 - Cable-stayed bridges. Past, present and future.
- leicht weit / Light Structures, Prestel Verlag, Munich (Germany), ISBN 3791329189, 2004; pp. 200-205
- Plus beaux, plus longs, in "Construction moderne", 2001
- Freyssinet cable-stayed structures, Freyssinet International, Vélizy-Villacoublay (France), 2004; pp. 26-27
- 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.
- The Art of Structural Engineering, Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart (Germany), ISBN 3930698676, 1997; pp. 193
- Ting Kau Crossing Finished Hong Kong's Airport Approach, in "Engineering News Record", 18 May 1998
- Erection of Cable-Stayed Bridges Having Composite Decks with Precast Concrete Slabs, in "Journal of Bridge Engineering (ASCE)", September - October 2001, n. 5 v. 6
- Balanceakt: Die Ting-Kau-Brücke in Hongkong, in "Deutsche Bauzeitung", May 1998, n. 5 v. 132
- Monoleg Towers with Transverse Stabilising Cables, in "Structural Engineering International", November 1998, n. 4 v. 8
- Ting Kau Bridge and Approach Viaduct(Video CD), Hong Kong (China), 1998
- Bridges - Ponts - Brücken, Atrium, Mexico City (Mexico), ISBN 8495692619, 2002; pp. 380-383
- Bridges with Multiple Cable-Stayed Spans, in "Structural Engineering International", February 2001, n. 1 v. 11
Internal Information
| Structure-ID: | s0000078 |
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| Created: | 28/10/1998 |
| Last Updated: | 05/03/2013 |