Construction information Miedia Always First! India’s We. 1 Construction Portal Yew orice issue (PF) ie. Design of Longest Span Cable Stayed Bridge Ss Sengupta, Orector Span Consutents Pt. Lid. Sangalre very cose to Ge can The rer teparates the state capital tawre Pana forthe alpen. 963 sete te Subeenuenty, the ni Don fora tourlane new bridge on ha rver adjcert tothe avsting one desged on fxorassnay stancard, There ents navigation| requrement for the Cossing and fourm being one oF the mest mporart actives ofthe sate, authorties have taken fleeson to conmnucra andrark braze atts setter nie frm of 9 ng span case Stayea onge She investi ns & Alignment Options Poor to any planningidesan acihites, cetales ste nvastaatone were cares out ‘+ Topographic suney using computentes Tota) Staton, Satelite Communication ‘auiprent(6P8) and rver soundings ‘+ Supsot investigation inthe rvarbac, anc on ans + Tac survey for economic and franca vabity analyse Two stamative akgoments have been studled in detale regard to land acquiion robles, over oer, tollng sation layout, rete moverment lan, cennecion to rast highway and the second akeratie has Deen finaly adopeed as © provides umbers ot sence acventages over the Art one. The approach slonmerts, and General layout pan ofthe brage was subsequertly develozed ar te inal abgnrant woe staeeg on Sroune Choice of Man Span Spptocatey 2¢0m wi certain Graught ‘taoremert ‘or tha sem going esses Saopung 1 longer rain span and cating the man pyane cozer tote shore nave the vonage of salon water depen Sno ease of Constvng 6 heavy wel isundatons. tts to be noted that the veal ict for navigational varteln De Sol Ofc Publican |(@X CON) Wa have 120 puestsenine itfvstng bridge Is 4 spans of 120 m Lo. Wwen'a skew atgnment, with navgatonal ram pylon. foundaens. substan, fentsion tre mverent ot the veseele Undemeath the Brgge suet a sores. of Wrollouncatone cose to. nawgational Chanvel may hag to unintentional pact fer any staying snp during fop/mi ote and cause major damage to te exsting a nd proposed brdge founcasons. Proposed a8 420muwth side spans af 30m each Subsequent during the detaled projec preparation, * was fe that ierease ithe rman span by 30m with marginal shifting of tre lon foundacin towards Panay side Mri sohe the problem of touet-acess to th pylon on top of which & ravoMing restaurant wil be constvcted. This nas resuked mn central span of 500m and brow oot ng exes ty am he sore ough wich out ce easy ‘acu approach spans on each end ofthe cable stayed portan, canstucton of Hh {benimene i plsce of approach Maduc pens hed to be fled out ew af {Eechorous subsoil of alice cotton or raft day stata suscepti to long corm Seiden The wut caus tne a seo 380m nih on ao Se Moris out to 1500'm. gre 1 snows the gener! nyo lan and gure? shows the Sevebon ofthe wast. Praserty, this is the hngest span cable stayed brie designe Ina. The previcusly fommplsted longest saan brlge war the 2nd Hooghly cable stayed bridge in Calta ‘wv conta pan of 457m. eck Cross-Section & Post-Tensioning wits an open sousrsecton wth edge Seam housing te sessing end af te stay {ables wth inet daphrgme ane seck sb wth fotpath on sach ite, rfor Figure brdge n Gangalre where the author was again the team leader ofthe design soup. Footpath vats segregated fom the vehubr Uae by reserving 1.0 mice cabb Snetorage zone an asch edge beam Uroughout the bridge length To reduce the butting eect of wind onthe vereal ace of ecge beam 9 sraliwind facing nese Mae Aernatve-2 foneiorea Ia. twin’ trapezolgal box connected by daphragn an ded SD er boeing effect aganst coss wind due to {aH tckence to toes care af ne sping forces and separated from ootpat rte DY Ineane of an RE dwarf wal and cosh Darr, mia cross sedion was finaly edoted Ber eenyng out wind tunnel cers ‘The spacing of the stay cables at the deck levels 10 m fe whi the duphragms are Spaced at5 mcf. The deck grdrhas been provides with postensioing cables near the centalzane af the S00 meantal span where the normal fates due to stay tension Is not avalble. Al the stu dphragre are transversely postensoned with 2 nos 1905 (19x 05" dia HTsvands) tendons feficnts of it, dag ané moment eonsigeres in the detains design of te Sr. She tast was conducted at the Wind Tunnel facies of indan instute of Tecnoleny, (ata) AsereceSintar test was earler caved out at the same ‘dy for the dace section of 2nd Hooghly Gable Stayed fridge in Catatta mie central span af 457m. A representative Ianath ofthe deer ofthe wnége scaled at 1'50 was picecm the open orev Boundary rootn low-traulenee fom (turbulence Ineentty of 9) & smoke generator wa ued {a get visual picture of ue tow aroune the deck The Model was proviged with ting faclty tothe deck st the dosed angle of sttac ofthe coming wins. Compete aot tt nstrumentation was proved fr measurement of wind velchy, drag fore and rroment, Mt free ond digea integrators with date sequstion system were sed Fecorang oftes ata (3) ‘The stati force co-ticlents for drag, Mt and moment ae aven by (1) Co =0.5p v6 ceo spveoure come 0.59 V/s V=mean wind veloc, mis ‘Aerodynamic Considerations ‘Re bos cek der const navy a acceyerialy send sain. favorable separation ofthe forsianal Tequency tom veal bending equeney forthe (eometrcal shape selected. The Mattar snd vortex oualotans were found to ext at {nl go angles of attack are at wind valcty much above ere design volocty ‘Asmar study was earler conducted IIR wind tunnel aly on 2 secsonal meee of (abi stoves brage wien a central span of 457m over river Hooghly n Caleta, Ina. rage. Ao, a5 is wel estabishec, the wine nonce angle mfvenced te behavior Sed ans erate 3 th seraeyeme stabi ofthe secon rn as ‘The rcommended vals ofthe force caatcents and the design fore obtined using (ase couticens ora deaklevel wing speed of 150 mph are given Table 1 Computer Simulation Carried Out and Compsrizon of results with Model Test ‘A analteal computerized wine sinulatin study ofthe Zuati bidge has abo been fariee aut using a prosretary satware OUMFLOW (developed by Com Consul Denmark) and used nether cable stayee brage projects. Ths ges very intresting results for design of ture long spon eable stayed bridge a Nghighted bebo. Stmuiation Mode tha test. minor devations may east betwe fersgure 5) tnd the model Soss-tection due to nino EeAMBGNY Ap THE geomELPTANARTInthe saan Se paeioN ec ‘he cash borers are assumes permeable fr te nuts top part ani, as seen n Fgures ——— a x @; Wind Load Coeficiente Se Cooticents nthe mage tests areas defined eave, The keene with and depth ot