The Bosideng Bridge () is a highway bridge over the
Yangtze River
The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest list of rivers of Asia, river in Asia, the list of rivers by length, third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in th ...
in
Hejiang County
Hejiang () is a county in the southeast of Sichuan Province, China, bordering Guizhou province to the south and Chongqing Municipality to the north and northeast. It is under the administration of Luzhou city.
History
Hejiang County has a histo ...
,
Sichuan
Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...
, China. It is the
third longest arch bridge in the world with a span of . The bridge carries traffic on the
G93 Chengdu–Chongqing Ring Expressway
The Chengyu Ring Expressway (), officially the Chengyu Region Ring Expressway () and designated G93,Standardization Administration of China, Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China. Mark rules of highway route and number of ...
.
Construction
The Bosideng Bridge is a concrete filled steel tubular
arch bridge
An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its loads partially into a horizontal thrust restrained by the abutments at either side. A viaduct ...
. It is the longest bridge of this design, surpassing the
Wushan Yangtze Bridge.
See also
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Yangtze River bridges and tunnels
The bridges and tunnels across the Yangtze River carry rail and road traffic across China's longest and largest river and form a vital part of the country's transportation infrastructure. The river bisects China proper from west to east, and ever ...
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List of largest arch bridges
This list of the longest arch bridge spans ranks the world's arch bridges by the length of their main span. The length of the main span is the most common way to rank bridges as it usually correlates with the engineering complexity involved in des ...
References
Bridges in Sichuan
Bridges over the Yangtze River
Bridges completed in 2013
Arch bridges in China
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