AKASHI KAIKYO BRIDGE

CONSTRUCTION OF

AKASHI KAIKYO BRIDGE

SUBMITTED BY

GOMATHI.R

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

DESIGNS AND CONSTRUCTION

IMPROVEMENTS

INTERESTING FACTS

REFRENCES

INTRODUCTION

THE AKASHI-KAIKYO BRIDE WAS BUILT IN THE YEAR 1988. THE BRIDGE WAS DONE ON 1998.

AKASHI-KAIKYO IS IN JAPAN, CONNECTING CITY OF KOBE TO AWAJI-SHIMA ISLAND.

DESIGNS AND CONSTRUCTIONSTEPS IN CONSTRUCTION

EXCAVATION

FOUNDATION

LAYING OF TOWERS

CABLES

DECK

FOUNDATION

LAYING OF TOWERS

CABLES

DECK

5TH APRIL 1998

IMPROVEMENTS

INTERESTING FACTS!!!!!!!

IT COST $4.3 BILLION.

IT'S LENGTH IS 12,828 FEET.

IT'S PURPOSE WAS IT WAS A ROADWAY.

ABOUT 24,901 CARS PASS ON IT EVERYDAY.

HAS SIX TRAFFIC LANES.

THE STEEL CABLE USED FOR THE BRIDGE, CAN CIRCLE THE WORLD SEVEN TIMES.

REFERENCES

ARTICLE A MASTER OF MANY BY ROADS & BRIDGES MAGAZINE

GENERAL INFO OF AKASHI-KAIKYO BRIDGE BY HTTP://HOMEPAGE1.NIFTY.COM/MOMOTAROH/E_SUB07_1

HTML AND ROADS & BRIDGES MAGAZINE HTTP://WWW.ROADSBRIDGES.COM/AKASHI-KAIKYO-

LAYING DOWN CAISSON CONSTRUCTION METHOD BY TTP://HOMEPAGE1.NIFTY.COM/MOMOTAROH/E_SUB07_1

HTML AND ROADS & BRIDGES MAGAZINE HTTP://WWW.ROADSBRIDGES.COM/AKASHI-KAIKYO INFORMATION ABOUT FOUNDATION AND ANCHORAGE BY AND ROADS & BRIDGES MAGAZINE

HTTP://WWW.ROADSBRIDGES.COM/AKASHI-KAIKYO-BRIDGE-ARTICLE1145

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