The Pentele Bridge or M8 Danube Bridge is a highway
bridge
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spanning river
Danube
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between
Dunavecse
Dunavecse is a town and municipality in Bács-Kiskun County in southern Hungary.
Croats
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and
Dunaújváros
Dunaújváros (; also known by other alternative names) is an industrial city in Fejér County, Central Hungary. It is a city with county rights. Situated 70 kilometres (43 miles) south of Budapest on the Danube, the city is best known for its ...
. Construction was completed on 13 March 2007. The Pentele Bridge got her name after the village Dunapentele (now part of Dunaújváros). The bridge is in length and wide, its main basket handle
tied-arch span of ranks 60th among the
longest arch bridge spans. It is part of the planned
M8 motorway, connecting
M6 motorway
The M6 motorway is the longest motorway in the United Kingdom. It is located entirely within England, running for just over from the Midlands to the border with Scotland. It begins at Junction 19 of the M1 and the western end of the A14 at t ...
on the west and highway 51 on the east bank.
Design and construction
The bridge's full length is , of which the approaches make up on the right bank (From Dunaújváros) and on the left, while the main river span is a steel
basket handle tied-arch of length. The river bridge's superstructure rests on two reinforced concrete pillars in the river bed, the right approach is supported by 14, the left one by 5 pillars. The deck is wide and carries 2×2 road lanes (3.75 m), 2×1 stopping lanes (3.5 m) a 3.6 m-wide separating line, and on both sides, a 2.4 m-wide pedestrian and bike path. The river bridge is high, and weighs about 8600 tonnes with all the structures excluding pavement. The arches rise 47.6 meters above the carriageway and are tilted inwards at an angle of 16.5° from vertical resembling a basket handle. The suspension cables run parallel, in the plane of the arches.
The main section of the bridge was assembled on the shore and floated in place using 8 barges of 1600 ton capacity each.
File:Construction of Pentele Bridge (Hungary) - 6 Dec. 2006 - (5582672308).jpg, Floating crane '' Clark Ádám'' building the Pentele Bridge
Image:Pentelehíd.jpg, Entrance to the bridge, showing a sign for the M8 motorway
See also
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List of crossings of the Danube River
This is a list of crossings of the Danube river, from its source in Germany to its mouth in the Black Sea. Next to each bridge listed is information regarding the year in which it was constructed and for what use it was constructed (foot bridge ...
External links
Dunaújvárosi Bridge's web camera
Bridges over the Danube
Bridges completed in 2007
Bridges in Hungary
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