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This list ranks the world's
cable-stayed bridges A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, normally forming a fan-like pattern ...
by the length of main span, i.e. the distance between the suspension towers. The length of the main span is the most common way to rank
cable-stayed bridge A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, normally forming a fan-like pattern ...
s. If one bridge has a longer span than another, it does not mean that the bridge is the longer from shore to shore, or from anchorage to anchorage. However, the size of the main span does often correlate with the height of the towers, and the
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complexity involved in designing and constructing the bridge. Cable-stayed bridges with more than three spans are generally more complex, and bridges of this type generally represent a more notable engineering achievement, even where their spans are shorter. Cable-stayed bridges have the second-longest spans, after
suspension bridge A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern examples of this type of bridge were built in the early 1800s. Simple suspension bridges, which lack vertical ...
s, of bridge types. They are practical for spans up to around . The Russky Bridge over the
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in
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,
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, with its span, has the longest span of any cable-stayed bridge, displacing the former record holder, the Sutong Bridge over the
Yangtze River The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest river in Asia, the third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains (Tibetan Plateau) and flows ...
in the
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on 12 April 2012.


Completed cable-stayed bridges

This list of largest cable-stayed bridges includes all bridges with a main span of at least in length. This list only includes bridges that carry vehicular traffic, such as
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s or trains. It does not include
suspension bridge A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern examples of this type of bridge were built in the early 1800s. Simple suspension bridges, which lack vertical ...
s,
footbridge A footbridge (also a pedestrian bridge, pedestrian overpass, or pedestrian overcrossing) is a bridge designed solely for pedestrians.''Oxford English Dictionary'' While the primary meaning for a bridge is a structure which links "two points at ...
s or pipeline bridges.


Cable-stayed bridges under construction


Planned and proposed bridges


Longest cable-stayed bridge decks

The definition of cable-stayed bridge deck length used here is: A continuous part of the bridge deck that is supported only by stay-cables and pylons, or are free spans. This means that columns supporting the side span a
for example
found in
Pont de Normandie The ''Pont de Normandie'' ( en, Normandy Bridge) is a cable-stayed road bridge that spans the river Seine linking Le Havre to Honfleur in Normandy, northern France. Its total length is – between the two piers. It is also the last bridge to ...
, excludes most of the side span decks from the cable-stayed deck length. There are some bridges with long bridge decks whose span lengths have not been published, and therefore are missing.
Extradosed bridge An extradosed bridge employs a structure that combines the main elements of both a prestressed box girder bridge and a cable-stayed bridge. The name comes from the word ''extrados'', the exterior or upper curve of an arch, and refers to how the " ...
s are not included. The thirty longest decks are:


Timeline of world record lengths

Many early
suspension bridge A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern examples of this type of bridge were built in the early 1800s. Simple suspension bridges, which lack vertical ...
s included cable-stayed construction, including the 1817 footbridge
Dryburgh Abbey Bridge Dryburgh Abbey Bridge was a cable-stayed footbridge of significant historical interest erected near Dryburgh Abbey, in the Borders of Scotland. It connected the villages of Dryburgh and St. Boswells (part of a ribbon of settlements, including ...
, James Dredge's patented Victoria Bridge, Bath (1836), and the later Albert Bridge, London (1872), and
Brooklyn Bridge The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/ suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first fixed crossing of the East Rive ...
(1883). Their
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s found that the combination of technologies created a stiffer bridge. Albert Caquot's 1952 concrete-decked cable-stayed bridge over the Donzère-Mondragon canal at Pierrelatte is one of the first of the modern type, but had little influence on later development. The steel-decked
Strömsund Bridge The Strömsund Bridge ( Swedish: ''Strömsundsbron'') is a cable-stayed road bridge, bringing road E45 over Ströms vattudal, in Strömsund, Jämtland, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Exper ...
designed by
Franz Dischinger Franz Dischinger (8 October 1887 - 9 January 1953) was a pioneering German civil and structural engineer, responsible for the development of the modern cable-stayed bridge. He was also a pioneer of the use of prestressed concrete, patenting the t ...
(1956) is therefore more often cited as the first modern
cable-stayed bridge A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, normally forming a fan-like pattern ...
. This list tracks the bridge having the longest cable-stayed main span through time. :''This list may be incomplete and detailed sources for pre-modern cable-stayed bridges may not be available, so the timeline might not be accurate.''


See also

*
List of cable-stayed bridges in the United States This List of cable-stayed bridges in the United States includes notable cable-stayed bridges, both existing and destroyed, in the United States of America, organized by name. A * Abraham Lincoln Bridge * Arthur J. DiTommaso Memorial Brid ...
*
List of spans The following is a list of spans, either used for overhead line crossings of rivers, sea straits or valleys, as antenna or for aerial tramway An aerial tramway, sky tram, cable car, ropeway, aerial tram, telepherique, or seilbahn is a typ ...
— list of remarkable permanent wire spans


References

*Nicolas Janberg, '' Structurae.com'', International Database for Civil and Structural Engineering *Others references


Further reading

* — includes a list of major cable-stayed bridges by length * * *


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cable Stayed Bridges * Lists of bridges Lists by length Bridges, cable-stayed Bridge, Cable-stayed Bridges, cable-stayed