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The Hejiang Yangtze River Highway Bridge, currently under construction in Sichuan Province, China, features the world's largest span fly-bird CFST arch bridge with a main span of 507 meters. This document details the structural design, including the main and side arch ribs, construction methods such as the vacuum assisted pumping-up pouring technique, and the overall project overview. The authors aim to provide insights for future designs of similar arch bridges.

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Designand Constructionofthe Hejiang

The Hejiang Yangtze River Highway Bridge, currently under construction in Sichuan Province, China, features the world's largest span fly-bird CFST arch bridge with a main span of 507 meters. This document details the structural design, including the main and side arch ribs, construction methods such as the vacuum assisted pumping-up pouring technique, and the overall project overview. The authors aim to provide insights for future designs of similar arch bridges.

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Design and Construction of the Hejiang Yangtze River Highway Bridge

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Design and Construction of the Hejiang
Yangtze River Highway Bridge

Junping Liu1(&), Shaobin Lu1, and Jianming Yuan2


1
Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China
liujunping@fzu.edu.cn
2
CSCEC AECOM Consultants Co., Ltd., Lanzhou 730000, China

Abstract. The Hejiang Yangtze River Highway Bridge is located in Hejiang


County, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province, China, whose main bridge will be the
largest span of fly-bird CFST arch bridge in the world, with the span arrange-
ment of 80.5 m + 507 m + 80.5 m, which is currently under construction. The
arch rib for middle span is a half-through concrete-filled steel tube truss rid arch,
and the arch ribs for side span are half-arches of concrete cantilever with
concrete-filled steel tube skeleton inside. This paper mainly introduces the
structures and design features of the main arch rib and side arch ribs of the
bridge, its construction method, especially, the vacuum assisted pumping-up
pouring method is also introduced. It is hoped to provide reference for the
design of other such type arch bridges.

Keywords: Concrete-filled steel tube  Fly-bird arch bridge  Design features 


Construction methods

1 Project Overview

The Hejiang Yangtze River Highway Bridge is located in Hejiang Town, Hejiang
County, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province. The main bridge is a fly-bird-type CFST arch
bridge with span arrangement of 80.5 m + 507.0 m + 80.5 m, whose main span length
is the largest span at present. The side spans are cantilever half arches made of concrete
with CFST skeleton inside. The axis of the main arch is a catenary line with coefficient
m of 1.5, and the rise-to-span ratio is 1/4. The overall layout is shown in Fig. 1.

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(a) over layout

(b) the cross-section

Fig. 1. Overall layout and the cross-section of the main bridge of Hejiang Yangtze River
Highway Bridge

2 Structural Design

2.1 The Main Arch Rib and Cross Bracings


The CFST arch ribs have advantages of light weight, high bending efficiency and
strong spanning ability, etc. [1]. Figure 2 shows the typical sections of main arch rib,
the section height of arch crown and arch springing are 7.0 m and 14.0 m, respectively,
and the width of rib is 4.0 m. Each rib is composed of two upper and two lower CFST
chords with diameter of U1300 mm. Chords are transversely connected by U760 mm
steel tubes and vertically connected by U660 mm steel tubes. The structural sections of
main arch rib are shown in Fig. 2.
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The center distance between the two arch ribs is 25.3 m. “K”-shaped steel tubular
bracings are set on the upper chord plane and “I”-shaped steel tubular vertical bracings.
Two concrete cross beams are set at the intersection of deck and arch ribs. The lateral
bracings arrangement is shown in Fig. 3.

(a) general section (b) section at hangers

Fig. 2. The sections of main arch rib

Fig. 3. Layout of lateral bracings

2.2 The Side Arch Rib


In order to generate a large horizontal thrust, side arch ribs generally use reinforced
concrete structures [2]. The side arch ribs of the bridge also use concrete structures with
CFST skeleton inside, as shown in Fig. 4.
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(a) general section ( b) section at the arch spring

Fig. 4. The sections of side arch rib

2.3 Hangers and Tied Cables


The hangers are epoxy-sprayed steel strands with diameter of 15.2 mm, and the ulti-
mate tensile strength of the steel strand is 1960 MPa. The two ends of the hangers are
respectively anchored on the upper edge of the upper arch and the lower flange of the
main cross beam of deck system.
Tied cables bear the most of the horizontal thrust of the arch, which is an important
component of the overall structural [3]. The tied cables are made of epoxy sprayed steel
strands with diameter of 15.2 mm. Each main arch rib has a total of 12 cables of
55U15.2 mm, and a total of 24 cables are used for the bridge.

2.4 Bridge Deck Systems


Steel-concrete composite deck with steel lattice girders is used for the bridge deck
system. The bridge steel lattice girders consists of two main longitudinal girders, two
secondary longitudinal stringers, main cross beams and three secondary cross girders.
Steel lattice beams are all made of I-sections. A steel-concrete composite deck is used
as the bridge deck. It is composed of steel sheet at the bottom surface and cast-in-site
concrete slab. The steel sheet has a thickness of 8 mm, and the total thickness of the
deck (including concrete slab and steel plate) is 15 cm, where it is 26 cm thick at the
support, and the pavement is 5 cm thick modified asphalt concrete.

2.5 Substructures
The main piers are the gravity structure made of the pile foundation, the cap, the pier
and the arch spring. The cap adopts a framing structure. Ten bored piles with a
diameter of U250 cm are placed under each half of the cap. The pier adopts the
separated reinforced concrete structure at the upstream and downstream. Two rein-
forced concrete “arched” crossbeams are connected at the top of the pier.
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3 Construction Methods
3.1 Erection for Main Arch and Side Arches
The ordinary erection methods used in CFST arch bridges are the cable-stayed can-
tilever method and swing method [4]. Because there are many cable cranes with large
hoisting capacity in China, therefore, the cable-stayed cantilever method is used for the
bridge, as shown in Fig. 5.

Fig. 5. Overall layout of the main and side arch installation system

The specific erection method for side arches is as follows: firstly, the CFST
skeleton was hoisted by the crane, then concrete was pumped into the steel tubes,
finally, the concrete encased the CFST skeleton was cast-in-site.

3.2 Pumping Concrete into Steel Tubes


For long-span CFST arch bridges, the pumping method is a more feasible solution [5].
In construction, in order to improve the adhesion and bonding of steel tube and core
concrete, against debonding between them, vacuum assisted pumping-up pouring
method was proposed and applied in the bridges, as shown in Fig. 6. The field tests
shown that the core concrete casted by this method with a negative pressure of
−0.07 MPa to −0.09 MPa is much more compact than the concrete casted with the
conventional method [6].

Fig. 6. Vacuum assisted pumping-up pouring method


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4 Conclusion

At present, the Hejiang Yangtze River Highway has the longest main span of fly-bird-
type CFTS arch bridges. A brief description of the main structural design and con-
struction method of the bridge are introduced in this paper. It is hoped to provide as
reference for the design and construction of the same type of bridge in the future.

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