Girder bridges

Girder bridges are the simplest bridge type in structure and consist of steel beams shaped to an I-

section or box section, called a plate girder bridge or a box girder bridge, respectively. Girder

bridges are comprised of deck slabs, on which vehicles and people pass, and of main girders

supporting the deck slabs. Deck slabs include RC deck slabs, steel deck slabs, composite deck

slabs, and PC deck slabs. Bridges where the deck slabs and the main girders work together to

resist loads are called composite girder bridges, and bridges designed to resist loads with the main

girders only are called non-composite girder bridges. In general, effective spans of about 25 to

150 meters are applied, but the Costa e Silva Bridge (Brazil) was built with the longest effective

span of 300 meters. JFE Engineering has the most experience in the manufacture and construction

of bridges of this type.

Construction examples

Name Kannonji Viaduct

Year completed 2011

Bridge type (Bridge No. 5) 3-span continuous open-section box girder

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Kinki Regional Development

Client
Bureau

Bridge length Bridge No. 3: 118 m, Bridge No. 5: 196 m, Bridge No. 8: 219 m

Features Steel-concrete composite deck slabs used

Name Iwo Jima Bridge

Year completed 2011

Bridge type 3-span continuous steel deck curved box girder

 Client Nagasaki Prefecture

Bridge length 480 ｍ

Marine single-operation erection of large block by floating crane

Features
(Maximum block length: 163 m)

Name Kizugawa Bridge

Year completed 2007

Bridge type 6-span continuous composite open-section box girder

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Kinki Regional Development

Client
Bureau

Bridge length 439 m

・Open-section box girder bridge

Features ・U-rib composite deck slab
・Weather-resistant bridge (CUPTEN COAT M)

Name Kashiogawa Bridge

Year completed 2001

Bridge type 3-span continuous non-composite box girder

Client Yokohama City

Bridge length 131 m

Features Grading deck slabs used

 Name Kuwana Interchange

Year completed 2001

Bridge type 5-span continuous plate girder

Client Mie Prefecture

Bridge length 185 m

Features High Ni-based weather-resistant steel used

Name Senryo Bridge

Year completed 2000

Bridge type 4-span continuous non-composite minimized I girder

Client Nagano Prefecture

Bridge length 255 m

Name Sabae Elevated Bridge

Year completed 1995

Bridge type 3-span continuous steel deck girder

Client Ministry of Construction Kinki Regional Development Bureau

Bridge length 93 m
 Name Minatomachi South Exit

Year completed 1995

Bridge type 3-span continuous steel deck box girder

Client Hanshin Expressway Public Corporation

Bridge length 486 m

Name Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line

Year completed 1995

Bridge type Multi-span continuous steel deck box girder

Client Trans-Tokyo Bay Highway Corporation

Bridge length 7004 m

・Titanium clad steel coating used for bridge piers

Features
・TMD installed as a measure against vortex shedding oscillation

Name Nanadaru Viaduct

Year completed 1981

Bridge type Sextuple 3-span continuous box girder, etc.

Client Shizuoka Prefecture

Bridge length 512 m

 Features Loop bridge

Related technology

 Short-period construction of bridges

 Rapid erection technology for multi-level crossing bridges
 Design and construction of steel/concrete composite deck slab bridges
 Bridges
o Girder bridges
 

o Suspension bridges
 

o Cable-stayed bridges
 

o Truss bridges
 

o Arch bridges
 

o Rigid-frame (Ramen) bridges

 

o Composite deck slab bridges

 

o I-shaped steel grating deck slabs

 

o Monorails and new transportation systems

 Coastal structures
o Hybrid caissons and L-shaped caissons (for quays)
 

o Jackets (for piers)

 

o Jackets (breakwaters, wave dissipaters)

 

o Steel caissons, L-shaped caissons (for land reclamation and bank protection,
bulkhead bank protection)
 

o Hybrid pontoons, steel pontoons

 

o Hybrid immersed tunnel elements

 

o Jacket type artificial ground

 
o Hybrid tide embankments

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