GODAVARI ARCH BRIDGE

Presented
JAYA THILAK G18MSE001
GOKUL RAJ S 18MSE0018
Godavari Arch bridge
 Carries : Single Railway lane
 Crosses : Godavari River.
 Located : Rajamundry Andhra Pradesh
 Owner: Indian Railways.
 Maintained by: Indian Railways.
bridge
characteristics
1. Design: Bowstring Girder
2. Total length: 9006ft
3. Longest span: 320ft
4. No of spans : 28 twin arches
5. Piers in water :28
History
 Designer : BBR
 Constructed by : Hindustan construction company.
 Construction: start 1991 end 1997
 Replaces: Havelock bridge.
specification
 The twin arches, box girder and struts are made of
prestressed concrete.
 The twin arch have a constant width of 2ft 7 inches.
 There are 28 twin arches of parabolic profile spaced at 18ft
and each of 318ft width center to center of the piers and
runs for length of 2.7 km.
specification
 The effective span of center to center of bearing is 308ft
 Each girder is of 313.49 ft long.
Design aspects
 The superstructure of the bridge is of the bow-string girder
type. While designing, the projected speed for the trains was
taken as 160 km per hour.
 Taking into consideration the cyclonic conditions, the wind
speed considered without live load was 200 km/hr, and
with dead load the speed considered was 158 km/hr. As the
location of the bridge is in the Seismic Zone I, seismic
load has not been accounted for in the design.
Arches
 The arches are designed to share 80% of the dead
load and live load transferred from the hangers and thus a
plays a critical role of relieving the flexural and shear stresses
on the girder.
 Twelve sinking supports are provided at each hanger location
connecting with the girder.
Hangers
 Each span of the bridge has 24 hangers, which are further
divided into six types depending on their length.
 Each Dina Hangar is made of 49 high tensile steel wires of 7
millimeters (0.28 in) diameter each.
 These wires run parallel to each other and are encased in a
high tensile polythene pipe, which is cement grouted.
Girders
 The box girders are made of M42 grade concrete.
Each girder was prestressed with 16 longitudinal cables,
which in turn were prestressed to a force of 2950 kN each.[1]
 The final dimensions of the box girder are 95.462 metres
(313.20 ft)×5,200 millimetres (200 in) (bottom) with
thickness of the top slab of 296 millimetres (11.7 in), the
web of 300 millimetres (12 in) thickness and with the
bottom
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Bearings
 The bridge has been provided with pot bearings, of
1050 tonnes capacity. One each pier, the girder is supported
on four pot bearings of three types: PNa, PNe, PN.
 The PNa type bearing (which facilitates free sliding in both
directions) on one pier and PNe type (slides only in one
direction) in the succeeding pier and PN type which is fixed
type.
Bearings
 The PNa and PNe type of bearings have been pre-set for 60
millimetres (2.4 in) movement in the longitudinal direction
and 10 millimetres (0.39 in) in the lateral direction and the
centre line of top plate has been fixed relatively by 60
millimetres (2.4 in)/10 millimetres (0.39 in) with respect to
centre line of bottom plate of the bearing which will permit
the movements due to creep, shrinkage and elastic
deformation.[7] Their placement ensures that only
longitudinal movement takes place without permitting any
lateral moment.[