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Structure-ID: s0004686
Created on: 27/08/02
Modified on: 28/02/07


Puente General Artigas

Built: 1970 - 1975
Location: Between Colón, Entre Ríos, Argentina and Paysandú, Uruguay
Crosses: Uruguay River
Puente General Artigas<br>(photographer: Pablo D. Flores)
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Structural Type:
Cantilever bridge
hollow box, haunched
Function / usage:
Road bridge

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RoleNamePart of structure 
Consultant Fritz Leonhardt

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Design Estudio Cabjolsky-Heckhausen
Co-contractor Ademar H. Soler
  EACA Empresa Argentina de Cemento Armado
Prestressing BBR Systems

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DescriptionValue
Construction Method(s)
  Balanced cantilever method
Construction materials used
superstructure  prestressed concrete
Dimensions
  total length 2 350.44 m
  clearance 34 m
  length of main bridge 334 m
  span lengths of main bridge 97 m - 140 m - 97 m

Chronology
10 December 1975
Inauguration by the President of Argentina, Isabel Perón.

Relevant Literature
* Prade, Marcel   Les grands ponts du monde: Hors d'Europe, Brissaud, Poitiers (France) , ISBN 2902170688, 1990; pp. 190-191.

 
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