Challenges and Innovations in the Sutong Bridge Foundation Project

You Qingzhong、Dong Xuewu and Wu Shouchang

Strategic Study of CAE ›› 2008, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (1) : 15-22.

Strategic Study of CAE ›› 2008, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (1) : 15-22.

Challenges and Innovations in the Sutong Bridge Foundation Project

  • You Qingzhong、Dong Xuewu and Wu Shouchang
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This article introduces three outstanding innovations, i.e. utilization of the steel casing for the piles to establish a construction platform for Sutong Bridge’s large and deeppile groups; 5000 ton steel cofferdam lowered as a whole and used as a protective structure against impact from ship collision; Permanent scour protection. This article also presents economical and reasonable design method for large bridge foundation and explains the significance of innovation and technical integration to large and complicated project construction based on the above theory.

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foundation / construction platform / steel cofferdam / ship collision / lowering of steel cofferdam / permanent scour protection

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You Qingzhong,Dong Xuewu and Wu Shouchang. Challenges and Innovations in the Sutong Bridge Foundation Project. Strategic Study of CAE, 2008, 10(1): 15‒22

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