VOL 01 | JUNE-JULY 2013 | = 100 ticiont MMIPASIMUICTURE —_—————— The trade magazine on Infrastructure Technology —————— WORLD’S TALLEST RAILWAY PROJECT -imervew publishiindustry*POU recrwovocy ORLD'S TALLEST ‘The Chenab Railway Bridge Project, slated to be the world’ tallest railway bridge post completion, has brought with it many architectural design innovations. Covering this world record in the making, a report ascertaining the geographic challenges and technological solutions implemented to tackle the rough J&K terrain, he Konkan Railway Corporation has taken up a " issoetimr aty=comet state of Jammu & Kashmir with the rest of the country. ‘The Kashmir Railway project is one of the most difficult new railway ine project under construction in India in the present time, One of the major landmarks inthis project isthe bridge that is being built on the ferocious Chenab River. Part of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Railway Project, the bridge on the Chenab River is situated near Kauri Village Called the Chenab Railway Bridge project, this railway line crosses the river at about 359 m above the riverbed. The total length of the bridge is 1315 m consisting of an arch span of 469 m across the Chenab River. As per AFCON: to be designed and constructed consid the bridge had that are unique, Some of the considerations were the high wind forces, location of the bridge in highly active seismic zone ofrechnoosy [EISEN RAILWAY BRIDGE India, possibility of terrorist attacks, provision for future track, continuous monitoring systems, ete. Likely to be completed by 2016, the main span of the Chenab Bridge will be an arch, made from large steel trusses. The chords of the trusses will be sealed steel boxes, filled with concrete to assist in controlling wind-induced forces on the bridge. The boxes will be stiffened internally. The designers have considered the aesthetic merit of the bridge and made a strong attempt to bring « natural cadence to the site, Also, a greater emphasis has been placed cn the structural response to wind forces, Wind tum 1 tests ‘were conducted at Force Technology Laboratory, Denmark, to establish the topogeaphic effects of the site on the reference wind speeds the static force coefficients; the occurrence of a elastic effects such as vortex shedding, galloping and fluter; the effects of gust-bulfeting The design of the bridge is as per the approved design basis, note prepared specially for this bridge, drawing the experiences gained from various projects abroad and international codes and practices. BS: 5400 is the basic platform on which the design and construction of the Chenab Bridge will be carried out, Design innovation n for this project has been done by WSP ). while Leonhardt Andra and Partners Group (Finla (Germany) have come up with the design of arch. As per Pekka Palkkinen, Business Area Directorand Head ~ Bridges & Ground Engineering, WSP Group (Finland), Indian Railway Standards IRS Standards) have been used while designing the bridge, For final structural anglysis, full-scale models of the bridge were prepared and the test results of the bridge were used to extract ‘equivalent static wind loads. Pulkkinen elaborates, “The analysis