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Vietnam

Can Tho Bridge

Project description

The Can Tho Bridge, inaugurated 2010, is a cable-stayed bridge over the Hau (Bassac) River, the largest distributary of the Mekong River. The 2,750m (total 15.85km), four-lane bridge has two 2.75m wide walkways. It is located in Binh Minh District, Vinh Long Province, opposite Can Tho, approximately 170km south of Ho Chi Minh City. The 26m wide bridge deck is of pre-stressed concrete. Span lengths are 2x40m - 150m - 550m - 150m - 2x40m while the total pylon height is 175.3m. The bridge replaces the ferry system that currently runs along National Road 1A and links Vinh Long Province and Can Tho City. The bridge is considered to be one of the largest engineering projects in Vietnam‘s history ever and overtook the title of Vietnam‘s longest bridge.

Delivered products

The bridge is equipped with 7 mageba expansion joints with length of 23.1m each: 1 x RS-B80 single cell joint (movement capacity 80mm), 1 x RSFD-B230 Finger Joint (movement capacity 230mm), TENSA®MODULAR Expansion Joints of types 1xLR3 (movement capacity 240mm), 2xLR4 (movement capacity 320mm each) and 2 x type LR10 (movement capacity 800mm each). All expansion joints were produced at mageba’s 100% owned subsidiary in Shanghai, China. Due to the very tight bridge construction schedule all expansion joints had to be designed, produced, delivered and installed within the very short period of only 3 months.

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Ready installed TENSA®MODULAR expansion joint LR10 – length 23.1 m

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mageba finger joint type RSFD-B230 ready for shipment

Key Data

Products:

TENSA®MODULAR, TENSA®GRIP RS, TENSA®FINGER RSFD

Features:

movement bet. 80 and 800 mm

Installation:

2009

City:

Mekong-Delta

Bridge:

Cable-stayed bridge

Length:

2‘750m

Owner:

Ministry of Transport and Communication of Vietnam

Contractor:

Taisei Corporation, Kajima Construction

Architect:

CHODAI Co.