What Bridge is This?
Is this for real? I've been told it's in France.
Amazing!
Update: It's the Viaduct of Millau (southern France). Thanks to Ken Moore, I now have a Power Point slide show of the construction.
Here's a link to one of many articles about the bridge. A lot of them are in French, so have your translator handy!
343 meters: total height at the top of the pylons.
270 meters: height of the apron above the Tarn.
2,460 meters: overall length.
Eight spans on the whole (six of 342 meters and two of 204 meters), resting on seven piles, are supported by stays fixed at seven 90 meters height pylons each one.
36,000 tons of metal frame, is seven times the Eiffel tower, constitutes the steel apron. 85,000 cubic meters of concrete, whose more than 50,000 of concrete high performance, were used for the realization of the piles and of the abutments, that is to say on the whole more than 205,000 tons of concrete.
Amazing!
Update: It's the Viaduct of Millau (southern France). Thanks to Ken Moore, I now have a Power Point slide show of the construction.
Here's a link to one of many articles about the bridge. A lot of them are in French, so have your translator handy!
343 meters: total height at the top of the pylons.
270 meters: height of the apron above the Tarn.
2,460 meters: overall length.
Eight spans on the whole (six of 342 meters and two of 204 meters), resting on seven piles, are supported by stays fixed at seven 90 meters height pylons each one.
36,000 tons of metal frame, is seven times the Eiffel tower, constitutes the steel apron. 85,000 cubic meters of concrete, whose more than 50,000 of concrete high performance, were used for the realization of the piles and of the abutments, that is to say on the whole more than 205,000 tons of concrete.
posted by Aaron at 9:42 PM
1 Comments:
It's somewhere where French is tha Language, I have a powerpoint presentation showing various stages of construction.
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