The bottom of the No. 5 pier of the Changzhou-Taizhou Yangtze River Bridge in East China's Jiangsu Province, which has the world's largest underwater open caisson foundation, recently completed its concreting process.
A smart monitoring system developed by the company was used during the concreting. More than 200 monitoring components were installed inside the caisson, collecting real-time monitoring data.
Following the concreting, the caisson weighs more than 320,000 tons. This means it will be capable of supporting the bridge, which will have a main span of more than 1,000 meters.
The project was contracted by CCCC Second Harbor Engineering Company Ltd., a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Company Ltd (CCCC).
The Changzhou-Taizhou Yangtze River Bridge is the first of its kind to integrate an expressway, an ordinary highway and an inter-city railway on the river.
A view of the construction site of the No. 5 pier of the Changzhou-Taizhou Yangtze River Bridge in Jiangsu Province [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
(Executive editor: Wang Ruoting)
