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Structure-ID: s0000583
Created on: 12/28/99
Modified on: 02/16/04


Kärkistensalmi Bridge

Kärkistensalmi Silta
Completed in: 1997
Status: in use
Location: Korpilahti, Länsi-Suomen Lääni, Finland
Kärkistensalmi Bridge
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Structural Type:
Cable-stayed bridge
Function / usage:
Road bridge

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RoleNamePart of structure 
Designer Michel Virlogeux

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RoleNamePart of structure 
Design Insinööritoimisto Sormunen & Uuttu Oy
  Service d'Etudes Techniques des Routes et Autoroutes
  Société d'études R. Foucault et Associés
Structural engineering Insinööritoimisto Sormunen & Uuttu Oy
Contractor YIT - Yhtymä Oy
Stay cables Freyssinet International

Technical information
DescriptionValue
Construction materials used
cables  steel
Dimensions
  main span 240 m
  total length 776.6 m
  girder depth 1.60 m
deck   width 12.80 m
  deck slab thickness 0.26 m
pylons   pylon height 68 m - 95 m

Relevant Literature
* Freyssinet cable-stayed structures, Freyssinet International, Vélizy-Villacoublay (France) , 2004; pp. 19.
* Hoorpah, Wasoodev    Pont à haubans de Kärkistensalmi en Finlande, in "Bulletin ponts métalliques", 1996, n. 18 .
* Outteryck, Christophe   Modèle aux éléments finis des pièces d'ancrage des haubans du pont de Karkistensalmi (Finlande), presented at Ponts suspendus et à haubans. Cable-stayed and suspension bridges, Deauville, 12.-15.10.1994.
* Sormunen, R.   Le pont à haubans de Karkistensalmi, in "Ouvrages d'art", November 1993, n. 16 .
* Virlogeux, Michel   Design of Kärkistensalmi bridge (Finland), presented at Ponts suspendus et à haubans. Cable-stayed and suspension bridges, Deauville, 12.-15.10.1994.

 
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