Installation of the largest stay cable system in Poland – the Rędziński bridge in Wrocław
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Paweł Hawryszków
Maciej Hildebrand |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | 18th IABSE Congress: Innovative Infrastructures – Towards Human Urbanism, Seoul, Korea, 19-21 September 2012 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress Seoul 2012 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 811-818 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137912805111186 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The City of Wrocław has been surrounded by the highway bypass since the year 2011. There is a large cable-stayed bridge along that way across the Odra River including two main spans each 256 m long. The height of the pylon is 122 m. The deck is supported from 160 stays Freyssinet HD2000 type. Total quantity of steel in stays reached about 1500 tons. The installation of stay cables was arranged according to Freyssinet Isotension procedure, as well as the specialized equipment supplied by Freyssinet was widely used. Time period consumed for installation was extremely short, it lasted about two months. As the result a modern elegant bridge appeared enriching the landscape of Wrocław peripheries. |
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| Keywords: |
cable-stayed bridge bridge construction concrete superstructure stays installation
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