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Poland

Vistula River Bridge

Project description

The Vistula River Bridge near the city of Grudziądz in Poland carries a major national motorway across Poland’s longest river. The structure, which opened to traffic in 2011, is the longest bridge of its kind in Poland, with a total length of almost two kilometres. The main part of the bridge, excluding approaches at each end, has a main span of 180 m and side spans of 110 m each. The northern approach has 21 spans and the southern one has 12 spans, each approximately 50m long. The main span was constructed by the cantilever method (overhang concrete pouring).

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In 2010, mageba supplied four TENSA-MODULAR expansion joints for the construction of this bridge – two with eight movement gaps each for one end of the bridge, and two with nine gaps each for the other end. All of the joints feature noise-reducing surface plates ­(“sinus plates”) which provide a continuous driving surface, avoiding wheel impacts and thus minimising the noise from over-rolling traffic. The mageba designations LR8-LS and LR9-LS indicate, with the suffix “LS”, that the joints feature noise-reducing surfacing.

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Construction of the bridge in 2010

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A TENSA-MODULAR joint of type LR9-LS (with noise-reducing surface plates), as installed

Key Data

Products:

TENSA-MODULAR expansion joints of types LR8-LS and LR9-LS

Features:

Noise-reducing surface

Installation:

2010

City:

Grudziądz

Completed:

2011

Type:

Post-tensioned PSC

Length:

1954 m