Marghera Bridge
General Information
| Structural Type: |
Cable-stayed bridge with curved deck
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| Function / usage: |
Road bridge
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| Other name(s): | Venezia-Marghera Bridge |
| Built: | 2003 - 2006 |
| Status: | in use |
Geographic Information & Related Structures
| Location: |
Marghera, Venice, Venezia, Veneto, Italy, Europe |
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| Coordinates: | 45° 28' 23.00" N 12° 14' 14.00" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 126.00 m | |
| total length | 420 m | |
| span lengths | 42.00 m - 105.00 m - 126.00 m - 30.00 m - 2 x 42.00 m - 36.81 m | |
| deck | width | 23.70 m |
Quantities
| structural steel | 4 170 t |
Cost
| cost of construction | Euro 21 000 000 |
Notes
The stay cables form a single conical plane, suspending the deck in its central axis. The deck itself is a steel-concrete composite structure consisting of an I-girder grid with bottom bracings, and is covered and protected by a stainless steel enclosure giving to the deck cross section a trapezoidal shape.
Participants
Original design
Structural design
Construction engineers
Main contractor
Relevant Web Sites
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Relevant Publications
- The Venice commercial port bridge, presented at Steelbridge 2004, Millau, 23-25 June 2004.
- Finite Element Modelling of a Curved Deck Cable Stayed Bridge in Venice from Operational Modal Analysis, presented at 17th IABSE Congress, Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, Chicago, September 17-19, 2008.
- La realizzazione del ponte strallato del Porto Commerciale di Venezia, in "Strade e Autostrade", July 2007, n. 64
- Construction of the Cable-Stayed Bridge in the Commercial Port of Venice, Italy, in "Structural Engineering International", February 2010, n. 1 v. 20
Internal Information
| Structure-ID: | s0056156 |
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| Created: | 02/04/2010 |
| Last Updated: | 05/03/2013 |