New innovative bridge placed in the Netherlands

[PA5COR]

http://nos.nl/artikel/347223-a27-krijgt-megaviaduct.html
Video of the placement is there.
Longest bridge lightweight bridge in the world.
140 meters long in one section, 6.2 meters wide, made from steel and composite material, good for the heaviest traffic.
Weighing in at 200 metric tonnes.

A normal bridge would weigh 7 times more, the new bridge is 20 times stronger and needs little maintenance.
Lots of interest from all over the world for this new concept.

http://content.nos.nl/data/image/xxl/2012/03/02/347216.jpg

[NQ6U]

Interesting tech, but kind of boring visually.

[PA5COR]

Use some paint to fresh it up ;)
No problem to make a different configuration, it is the innovative use of composite materials and combined with inner steel that makes it news certainly the low weight.

[KC2KFC]

Still I agree with Carlo. It's visually boring.

[PA5COR]

Demand specifications of the costumer.
No problem to make it in any form or shape, even more possebilleties because of the strength and lightness of the used materiials, new forms impossible to build and work with the old construction will now be possible.
I see some demand here ;)

[XE1/N5AL]

Interesting. Was the bridge assembled in one location (i.e., a factory) and then transported as one piece to its destination?

[KK4AMI]

I think it is less boring if it was vertical and with an antenna on top!

[kf0rt]

Still I agree with Carlo. It's visually boring.

Prototypes generally are.

[PA5COR]

Build in sections combined them on the spot as far i could get any info on it.
It mimics another half that is already there, that is why they picked that design.
They can make any form or shape, and any length or wide you wish.

[XE1/N5AL]

I think it is less boring if it was vertical and with an antenna on top!Or, build a second bridge, of the same size, and you'll have an indestructible half-wave dipole for the new WRC-12, 600 meter amateur band.

[NQ6U]

Or, build a second bridge, of the same size, and you'll have an indestructible half-wave dipole for the new WRC-12, 600 meter amateur band.

I'd like to see the rotor used to turn it.

[n2ize]

Interesting tech, but kind of boring visually.

I agree. It may be well engineered and very functional but it lacks the more ornate quality that I like to see in a bridge.

[W5GA]

I'd like to see the rotor used to turn it.
At 600m, you'd never be able to get it high enough to need to turn it. Put enough power into it, and you'd probably be able to transmit through the earth, though.

[kb2vxa]

"I'd like to see the rotor used to turn it."

[PA5COR]

^and how am i supposed to bolt that to my mast???? ;)

[ab1ga]

^and how am i supposed to bolt that to my mast???? ;)

You don't. You bolt it to the ground and watch the earth turn. :)

[kb2vxa]

A really big mast and a crane?

[KG4CGC]

I like Cor's bridge. It's better than anything we got.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/4c10db6a.jpg

[kf0rt]

Technically cooler maybe, but it's hard to beat Glenwood Canyon for amazing bridges.

http://protophoto.com/images/i70/DCP_5986.JPG

[KG4CGC]

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/Dog%20Walk/d290752c.jpg

[PA5COR]

Ours is just another railway bridge! what effing form do you want to give it when there is already the same one up there?
;)

[kf0rt]

Ours is just another railway bridge! what effing form do you want to give it when there is already the same one up there?
;)

Needs moar cowbell. :rofl:

[KG4CGC]

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/Train_Easley/Tressel_Saluda_01.jpg

[NQ6U]

Ours is just another railway bridge! what effing form do you want to give it when there is already the same one up there?
;)

Forgive me, Cor. I grew up in San Francisco so I have a rather high threshold when it comes to admiring bridges.

[PA5COR]

I know, here it's functionality.
But we do have our fine bridges too.
;)

[NQ6U]

http://bridgehunter.com/photos/15/73/157392-L.jpg