The Viaduct of the Zalalövő – Bajánsenye - State
Border Railway Line has been built in 1999-2000.
The superstructure is a prestressed concrete box
section multispan beam. The whole bridge consist of
three structures: a 16 span straight bridge, a14
span curved (R=2300 m) bridge, and a 2 span bridge
in between them. The sidal bridges have been
constructed by the incremental launching method
started from the abutments, the intermediate bridge
has been built on falsework after the removal of the
steel noses. The independent statical check of the
bridge has been made by Pont-TERV Engineering
Consultants.
The analysis
has been made with the RM7 program of TDV Austria,
invented for the analysis of prestressed concrete
bridges. The program is based on a spaceframe FEM
program, but contains special modules for the
analysis of the cross-sections, the tendon geometry,
the prestressing actions and losses and for the time
dependent modelling of the creep and shrinkage
behaviour.
The
prestressing tendons of the bridge consist of three
groups: parallel construction cables in the deck and
the bottom slab, curved continuity cables in the
webs and external continuity cables lead in the box
on saddles. The program allows the exact modelling
of the creep and shrinkage as well.
The outer fibre stresses, the principal stresses and
the ultimate moments has been computed for the
characteristic cross sections. The bridge has been
checked for both of the final and the construction
stages (this later is governing for most of the
cross sections due to the incremental launching
technology). |