Minami Bisan-Seto Bridge
General Information
| Structural Type: |
Suspension bridge
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| Function / usage: |
Motorway bridge / freeway bridge
Railroad (railway) bridge |
| Original name: | 南備讃瀬戸大橋 (Minami Bisan-Seto Ōhashi) |
| Other name(s): | 南備讃瀬戸大橋 (Minami Bisan-Seto Ōhashi) |
| Completed in: | 1988 |
| Status: | in use |
Geographic Information & Related Structures
| Location: |
Japan, Asia |
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| Part of: |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 1 100 m | |
| length of side spans | 2 x 274.0 m | |
| total length | 1 723.0 m |
Materials
| cables |
steel
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|---|---|
| deck truss |
steel
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Participants
Design
Construction
- Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.
- Yokogawa Bridge Corporation
Steel construction
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- Bridge Engineering Handbook, CRC Press, Boca Raton (USA), ISBN 0849374340, 1999; pp. 66-26
- Tierra sobre el agua, Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Madrid (Spain), ISBN 8438001483, 1999; pp. 514-516
- Aesthetic design on the Seto Ohashi Bridge, presented at Interaction between Major Engineering Structures and the Marine Environment, IABSE Colloquium, Nyborg, 1991.
- Bridges - Ponts - Brücken, Atrium, Mexico City (Mexico), ISBN 8495692619, 2002; pp. 126-131
- Ten years' maintenance of Seto Ohashi Bridges, presented at Long-Span and High-Rise Structures, IABSE Symposium, Kobe, 1998.
Internal Information
| Structure-ID: | s0001333 |
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| Created: | 18/02/2001 |
| Last Updated: | 05/03/2013 |