PARROTTS FERRY BRIDGE: PIONEER IN LIGHTWEIGHT, PUMPED CONCRETE

Spanning the Stanislaus River in Northern California, this bridge includes a 640-ft center span that is the world's longest span in lightweight concrete and the longest bridge span ever built in the U.S. using the segmental cantilever construction method. Its use of economical lightweight concrete in the bridge superstructure is a unique design feature. The extraordinarily tall and graceful bridge rests on piers rising 350 feet above the stream bed. The height and length of the spans required long distance concrete pumping on a scale rarely attempted. The bridge is the best example in this country of a cast-in-place, segmentally constructed concrete box girder bridge.

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  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Weddell, G C
  • Kavanaugh, P F
• Publication Date: 1980-6

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 8
• Serial:
  • Civil Engineering
  • Volume: 50
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0885-7024
  • Serial URL: http://www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/newce/html

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Box girders; Bridge design; Bridge superstructures; Bridges; Cast in place structures; Concrete bridges; Girder bridges; Lightweight concrete; Pumped concrete; Structural design
• Uncontrolled Terms: Bridge spans
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Design; Highways; Materials; I24: Design of Bridges and Retaining Walls;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00319315
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 30 1980 12:00AM