San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (West)
General Information
| Structural Type: |
Suspension bridge
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| Function / usage: |
Road bridge
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| Built: | 1933 - 1936 |
| Status: | in use |
Geographic Information & Related Structures
| Location: |
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA, North America Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA, North America |
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| Crosses |
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| Part of: | |
| Connects to |
Yerba Buena Tunnel (1936)
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Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 2 x 704 m | |
| length of side spans | 354 m |
Materials
| cables |
steel
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| pylons |
steel
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| deck truss |
steel
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Chronology
| 12 November 1936 | Opened to traffic. |
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Participants
Steel construction
Seismic retrofit
Structural engineering
Relevant Web Sites
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A Span for All Seasons: Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge
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A Span for All Seasons: San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
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Caltrans: Bay Bridge Photo Archive
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HAER: San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, Spanning San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
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Historic Bridges of the United States: San Francisco Bay Bridge (#33+0025)
Relevant Publications
- Les grands ponts en construction à San-Francisco, in "Ossature métallique", November 1934 v. 3
- Landmarks in American Civil Engineering History, in "Civil Engineering Magazine", November - December 2002, n. 11-12 v. 72
- High Steel, Celestial Arts, ISBN 0890878595, 1998
- Brücken, Könemann, Cologne (Germany), ISBN 3829004095, 1998; pp. 78-79
- Bridges, Black Dog & Leventhal, New York (USA), ISBN 1884822754, 1997; pp. 78-79
- Les ponts, Könemann, Cologne (Germany), ISBN 3829004109; pp. 78-79
- Les ponts de la baie de San Francisco, in "Ossature métallique", June 1936 v. 5
- Great American Bridges and Dams, John Wiley & Sons, New York (USA), ISBN 0471143855, 1984; pp. 273-274
- Seismic analysis and behavior of three major western-U.S. suspension bridges (San Francisco-Oakland West Bay Crossing, Golden Gate Bridge, Tacoma Narrows Bridge), presented at Ponts suspendus et à haubans. Cable-stayed and suspension bridges, Deauville, 12.-15.10.1994.
- Les grands ponts du monde: Hors d'Europe, Brissaud, Poitiers (France), ISBN 2902170688, 1990; pp. 144-145
- Die San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge wurde fünfzig Jahre alt, in "Stahlbau", July 1987, n. 7 v. 56
- Le nouveau pont reliant San Francisco à Oakland, in "La Technique des Travaux", March 1935, n. 3 v. 11
- Die Geschichte der San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, in "Bautechnik", April 2004, n. 4 v. 81
Internal Information
| Structure-ID: | s0000262 |
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| Created: | 19/05/1999 |
| Last Updated: | 05/03/2013 |
