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Shuixing Zhou
School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, China
Xiaoping Du, Dan Li and Yongsheng Duan
Chongqing Highway Group Corporation, Yudong Construction Branch, Chongqing, China
ABSTRACT: Daning River Bridge has a 400meter span and is the longest arch bridge having
steel truss deck in China. The main arch comprises of three arch trusses connected by bracings
and the spandrel is a steel-concrete composite structure. The trusses were installed by means of
non-framework cable hoisting. In order to ensure accurate fabrication of all arch truss segments
and components, an iteration method of segmental elevations was proposed based on the cable
one-time tensioning technique. In practice, all truss segments and components have been
fabricated precisely by using this method. This paper focuses on the design and construction
control technology and the stability of the tall columns in Daning River Bridge.
1 INTRODUCTION
The Daning River Bridge locates at the expressway between Wushan and Fengjie of Chongqing
city. The entire bridge is 681 meters long and its main structure is a steel truss deck catenary
arch bridge having a clear span of 400 meters (Fig.1). The arch axis is a centenary with a
coefficient of 1.9 and the ratio of rise to span f 0 L0 is 1/5.
奉节
宜昌 Yichang 全桥长68100 Yi h Fengjie
yichang 500 5*3000 16*2700 3*3000 400
el+dl
Q Ⅰ2-2
305.689
9 弱风化灰岩
Ⅰ2-2 294.362
含砾石粘土 150 290.759 288.843
Ⅶ-3
Ⅶ-2 150 Ⅰ
1-2 277.439 180
274.362
强风化溶崩角砾灰岩
0 弱风化灰岩
260.759 180 261.388 261.343
Ⅶ-3 1 Ⅶ-2 8
248.939
弱风化溶崩角砾灰岩 180 244.375 180
2
234.856
232.388
180 219.944 7 Ⅶ-3
3
弱风化溶崩角砾灰岩 219.944
Ⅶ-3 213.875
Ⅶ-3 4
201.944
40000 201.944 弱风化灰岩
25°∠23° 5 6000 6
1000
el+dl
Q Ⅰ1-2
Ⅶ-3 弱风化灰岩
Ⅶ-3
Ⅶ-3
Ⅶ-3
The approaches consist of 5×30m and 3×30m T-beams and the pavement width is 24.5m, as
shown in Figs.1 and 2. It should be mentioned that Daning River Bridge is the first
steel-truss-deck arch bridge having triple ribs and super long span in China. This span length is
less than that of the New River Gorge Bridge in the United States whose main span is 518.3
meters long, whereas the latter bridge is a double-rib-deck steel truss arch bridge.
Table 1 : Dimensions of the web components and the transverse bracings of the chord
Wing thickness Web Thickness
Component Height /mm
/mm /mm
Web components 998 20 18
Bracings 688 16 12
Cross Web components
600 16 12
Between trusses
2.2 Columns
The columns are made of steel frames and each of them comprises three steel box columns. The
width of each steel box is 1.0 m(identical to that of the chord)in the transverse direction, while
the height is 1.7 m to1.9 m in the longitudinal direction. The wall thickness is 16 mm. There are
also longitudinal stiffening ribs and transverse diaphragms arranged inside the box. When the
column is higher than 18 m, double diagonal members welded by I-shape steel are used to
connect two columns. Similarly, the bent caps of the columns are also steel box structures.
There is a double-transverse slop of 2% at the cap top. The height at the highway center line is
1.75 m and the width is 1.2 m. The thickness of the top and bottom steel plates is 20 mm, while
that of the web is 16 mm. Similarly, the bent cap box also has longitudinal stiffening ribs.
To improve the stability of the columns, the steel stringers at two transition piers are installed
on the sliding bearings and the others are consolidated with the columns.
on the Fengjie site when the main arch reached its closure. Meanwhile, the maximum lateral
deviation is only 5 mm, as shown in Table 2.
0 1
N
1 2
Y
N
Whether the displacement of cable tower are allowed
Y
Output cable forces and cambers
The elastic stability coefficients and the buckling modes for Daning River Bridge were showed
in Table 3.
Table 3 : Tall column stability coefficients and buckling modes of Daning River Bridge
stability
No. Buckling Mode
Coefficient
1 13.648 In-plane buckling of the first column at the Fengjie side
2 14.353 In-plane buckling of transition pier at the Fengjie side
3 16.297 In-plane buckling of the first column at the Yichang side
4 17.98 In-plane buckling of Transition pier at the Yichang side
5 23.543 First-order dissymmetry in-plane buckling of the main arch
6 24.587 Out-of-plane symmetry buckling of the main arch
7 25.11 Torsional buckling of the first column at the Fengjie side
8 28.484 In-plane buckling of the second column at the Fengjie side
9 29.074 Torsional buckling of the first column at the Yichang side
10 32.563 In-plane symmetry buckling of the main arch
It can be seen that there are 7 buckling modes just right for the tall columns. The tall columns
stability plays a control role in the construction of deck arch bridges having super long spans.
Hence, how to raise the stability of tall columns is a key issue for such arch bridges.
5 CONCLUSION
This paper describes the design and construction control of the main arch, the columns and the
spandrel structure in Daning River Bridge. According to the characteristics of the triple-ribbed
arch bridge, whose main arch was erected using the non-framework cable erection method and
all the bracings were dispersively installed, a forward iteration method for determining cable
forces and cambers is proposed. This method can meet the requirements of the cable one-time
tensioning method. The measured deformations of the arch status agreed well with the
theoretical predictions. And the lateral deviation is only 5 mm. For deck arch bridges having
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long spans, their tall columns may control the structure stability. Therefore, this point has to be
paid attention by bridge designers.
6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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