Services:
Bid design
Detailed design and
construction supervision of
steel superstructures
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Superstructure
The highway carried by the bridge is
designed as a 4-lane motorway with
emergency footways on either side
supported on cantilevered brackets.
The effective width between the crash
barriers is 9 m in each direction.
Basically, the cross-sections of the
two bridges are identical, except that
the central reserve on the Far-Falster
bridge is 1 m wider than on the Zealand-Far bridge to allow for the cables of the cable stayed bridge.
The cross-section of the bridge
girders consists of a single-cell box
composed of a few main elements
which, with few variations, are used
over the entire length of the bridge,
thereby allowing industrialized fabrication.
Box Fabrication
The girder structure is fabricated at a
shipyard in 80 m full span sections
and 16 m sections for the navigation
span of the cable-stayed bridge. A total of thirty-nine 80 m sections, twelve
16 m section, and two final 10 m sections have been constructed.
Erection
The bridge girders are floated by
barge to the bridge site approximately
80 km from the shipyard in Nakskov.
After positioning of the barge between the piers - with the 600 t girder
segment positioned at a high level the girder is lowered onto temporary
supports by hydraulic jacks.
In the cable-stayed bridge, two 80
m segments are used for each 120 m
side span with 40 m cantilevered into
the main span from the pylon. The remaining 210 m of the main span are
erected by alternate erection and
welding of 16 m long bridge segments to each cantilever and erection
of cable-stays, until continuity is
achieved at midspan.