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General Information

Beginning of works: 1994
Completion: 28 September 1997
Status: in use

Project Type

Location

Location: , ,
Crosses:
  • Yangtze River
Coordinates: 31° 56' 42.08" N    120° 16' 10.59" E
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Technical Information

Dimensions

main span 1 385 m
total length ca. 3 km
clearance 50 m
pylon pylon height 190 m

Quantities

structural steel 35 300 t

Materials

cables steel
deck steel
pylons reinforced concrete
deck of approach viaducts prestressed concrete

Chronology

1995

Construction of substructures begins

28 September 1999

Opened to traffic

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Jiangyin Yangtze River Bridge (Chinese: 江陰長江大橋) is a suspension bridge over the Yangtze River in Jiangsu, China. The bridge has a main span of 1,385 metres (4,544 ft) connects Jiangyin south of the river to Jingjiang to the north. When the bridge was completed in 1999, it was the fourth longest suspension bridge span in the world and the longest in China. Several longer bridges have since been completed in China and abroad but it still ranks among the ten longest bridge spans in the world. The bridge was also the furthest downstream on the Yangtze until the completion of the Sutong Yangtze River Bridge in 2008 and the Chongming–Qidong Yangtze River Bridge in 2011.

Locale

Located in the centre of the Jiangsu Province, the bridge carries traffic on the G2 Beijing-Shanghai Expressway. There are three lanes in both directions and pedestrian sidewalks. The location was selected due to the narrow width of the river at the bridge. The height clearance for river navigation is 50 metres (164 ft).

History

The bridge was planned so that it would be completed in time to mark the 50th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution of 1947. It was the first long-span bridge of ist kind to be designed in China. Foundation work began in 1994. Engineering, manufacture and construction of the bridge was completed in just less than three years. The concrete towers are 190 metres (623 ft) tall, roughly equivalent in height to a 60 story building. The main span, constructed by Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company, is made of flat streamlined steel box girders. The steel deck was erected by raising pre-assembled units weighing up to 500 metric tons with jacks. (pictures) The total investment of the bridge adds up to 2.728 billion yuan. The bridge opened on September 28, 1999. Jiang Zemin entitled the bridge and cut the ribbon. Goodwin Steel Castings manufactured the cable bands for the bridge.

In 2002 the bridge received an award at the International Bridge Conference for "…outstanding achievement in bridge engineering that, through vision and innovation, provides an icon to the community for which it was designed."

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Jiangyin Yangtze River Bridge" and modified on 22 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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  • Structure-ID
    20001751
  • Published on:
    18/08/2001
  • Last updated on:
    19/04/2016
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