Vale Flores viaduct



CONCEPTUAL DESIGN / SERVICES CARRIED OUT

Bridge deck constructed with pre-fabricated pre-tensed concrete girders, with pre-fabricated pre-tensed concrete panels and a “in-situ” concrete pouring of the remaining slab. Over the intermediate supports there is continuity pre-stress at the slab level. The deck is divided longitudinally in the half length of the viaduct and transversally for each of road-ways, in a total of four independent structures.
The infrastructure of each deck is realised with two piers with circular cross section and a superior beam forming a frame. Two kinds of foundations were used: pier-pile; and a longitudinal binary of piles.
The two abutments are spill through type, with great robustness, to allow the connection to the decks through hydraulic dissipating seismic energy devices.

LOCATION

Carregado, Portugal

SERVICE DATE

2006

GENERAL FEATURES

Length: 1184 m (left deck), 1174 m (right deck)
Main span: 35,2 m
Width: 36,13 m (total of the two decks)