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New River Gorge Bridge

New River Gorge Bridge
New River Gorge Bridge

General Information

Structural Type: Arch bridge
Function / usage: Road bridge
Built: 1974 - 1977
Status: in use

Geographic Information & Related Structures

Location: Fayetteville, Fayette County, West Virginia, USA, North America
Crosses
  • New River

Technical Information

Dimensions

main span 518 m
height 267 m
total length 924 m
deck deck width 22 m

Materials

deck steel
arch steel

Participants

Owner
Design

Relevant Web Sites

Relevant Publications

  • Picture this, in "Bridge Design & Engineering", 3rd Quarter 2005, n. 40 v. 11
  • New River Gorge Bridge: World's Longest Steel Arch, in "Civil Engineering Magazine", June 1978, n. 6 v. 48
  • Brown, David J. Bridges, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York (USA), ISBN 002517455X, 1993; pp. 145
  • Cortright, Robert S. Bridging the World, Bridge Ink, Wilsonville (USA), ISBN 0964196336, 2003
  • Leonhardt, Fritz Brücken / Bridges (4th edition), Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart (Germany), ISBN 3421025908, 1994; pp. 239-41
  • Picon, Antoine L'art de l'ingénieur, Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France), ISBN 2858509115, 1997; pp. 332

Internal Information

Structure-ID: s0000269
Created: 20/05/1999
Last Updated: 21/05/2013