THE BRIDGE IN THE STRAIT OF MESSINA

 

The plan of the Bridge

The only span bridge suspended with light of 3.300 m has exceptional characteristics of resistance and service: it is in a position to resisting without damages to sisma a correspondent to degree 7.1 of the Richter scale (stricter of the devastating earthquake that hit Messina in 1908) and to face, thanks to the own aerodynamic characteristics, twenty with 216 advanced speed to Km/h. Its street platform to three corsie for every sense of march can smaltire a traffic of 9.000 motor vehicles for hour, that is beyond 140.000 in the 24 hours. The railroad to binary double quantity can concur the transit of 200 trains with the day. They are moreover to disposition, beyond to the corsie of emergency for the freeways, two roads of service for the railroad and the two for the maintenance and emergency. In highway total, 12 corsie and 2 railway lines, on impalcato wide 60 m with one horizontal surface of approximately 22 hectares.
The previewed constructive technologies use techniques and materials consolidate to you and long it experiments to you in this field of engineering. Much important one is the resource to the processes of prefabrication in plant which offer the best guarantees than quality, control of the times of execution, minimizzazione of the impact on the atmosphere in the phase of construction.
The fundamental aspects of the planning regard:

The impalcato one

The suspension system

The towers

The anchorage blocks

Other images of the plan:

The longitudinal section of the bridge


Image from satellite of the Strait with the tracings of plan