Posted by *Jojo*
Even after you see it, it is still hard to believe !
WaterBridge in Germany .... What a feat!
Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long.......
now this is engineering!
This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and
joins the former East and West Germany ,
as part of the unification project.
It is located in the city of Magdeburg , near Berlin .
The photo was taken on the day of inauguration.
To those who appreciate engineering projects,
here's a puzzle for you armchair engineers and physicists.
Did that bridge have to be
designed to withstand the additional weight
of ship and barge traffic, or just the weight of the water?
Answer:
It only needs to be designed to withstand the weight
of the water!
Why? A ship always displaces an amount of water that
weighs the same as the ship,
regardless of how heavily a ship may be loaded.
image:
Posted by fatreg
a water bridge is known as a aquaduct Jn..
fatreg
Posted by lamont
hehe yup its just a big aqueduct with a walk way
Posted by *Jojo*
Aqueduct, aquaduct, ugly duck or Donald Duck . . . it still LOOKS like a BRIDGE to me mates
. . .
Posted by bart
its german, their will be a mistake in the design, no doubt about it
Posted by lamont
haha it is a bridge, just a special bridge called an 'aqueduct'
yup will probably fall down within the next week
Posted by fatreg
ooooh..
i can't spell.. its an aqueduct..
intresting.
fatreg
Posted by *Jojo*
I hope that a German PEEP (Esatonian) can confirm this one if it's really a BRIDGE or a DUCK
Posted by lamont
i wrote aquaduct but iv got a spell check on my computer which now is present on most programs, god knows where it came from. Anyway it told me it was wrong
Posted by Xugaa
I can't say that it's terribly beautiful, but none the less it is a clever bit of architecture.
Posted by *Jojo*
@xugaa - if it's TOO good to be TRUE . . . perhaps it's - photoshop
I hope that peeps from Germany can confirm it's authenticity 
Posted by london-uk
On 2007-03-09 00:28:48, *Jojo* wrote:
@xugaa - if it's TOO good to be TRUE . . . perhaps it's - photoshop
I hope that peeps from Germany can confirm it's authenticity
Fairly certain it's real http://www.dillinger.de/dh/re[....]/stahlbau/01057/index.shtml.en
Posted by djtwistter
imagine it brakes
Posted by bart
imaging it would be frozen, now that would be fun
Posted by *Jojo*
Imagine . . . all the PEOPLE living in this world - huhuhuhuhu . . . .
@london-uk - Thanks for the LINK, so it's REAL after all . . . just got it from MAIL
Posted by Marly
There's even a webcam :
http://www.magdeburg.de/index[....]1&ffmod=tx&object=tx|37.1536.1
not much to see at this time, though
.
Posted by *Jojo*
I'm still confused
as it's been mentioned there that it's a : BRIDGE and an AQUEDUCT too 
Which is which
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Canal Bridge Magdeburg
Facts and figures
Country:
Germany
Quality:
S355J2G3
Building owner:
Wasserstraßenneubauamt Magdeburg
Length:
918 m
Engineer’s society:
Prof. Hering, Braunschweig
Delivered quantity:
24,000 t
Planning of the steelplate structure:
Dillinger Stahlbau GmbH - DSD -, Saarlouis; Ingenieurbüro HRA, Bochum; Ingenieurbüro Meyer und Schubart
The essential part of the project is Europe's longest aqueduct with a total length of 918 m, which connects the Eastern part of the channel \"Mittellandkanal\" with the Western part of the channel \"Elbe-Havel-Kanal\" across the river Elbe.
This construction, which makes possible direct East-West-traffic independent of the river Elbe for the whole year for motorships and push tows, consist of a 228 m-long main bridge, which is constructed out of three sections (57,1 m/106,2 m/57,1 m) and a 690 m-long approach bridge with 16 sections.
The main bridge is a continuous girder and consists of a through bridge and the two exterior main grider boxes. The main girder boxes are divided into 11 constructional sections with lengths from 13.8 m up to 30 m. The cross-section consists of the upper boom, the bottom boom, the sides of the through bridges as well as the post and diagonals of the framework.
The approach bridge is also constructed as a continous girder of 16 sections with equidistant spans of 42.85 m. The through bottom of the approach is longitudinally oriented as a result of the small spans (7 longitudinal girders). The lateral through sides are reinforced at the upper bord with a box girder, which at the same time is a traffic route.
For the steel construction of the main bridge and the construction of the approach bridge respectively 10,000 t and 14,000 t of heavy plate type S355J2G3 (with acceptance certificate 3.1.C) were used. Concerning the dimensions, plate thicknesses ranging from 10 to 80 mm, widths up to 4,500 mm and lengths up to 28,000 mm were used.
About 6,000 t of the total tonnage were delivered as longitudinally profiled plates. These are plates with a continous variable thickness in the longitudinal direction. The maximum difference in thickness of the employed LP-plates is 30 mm.
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Posted by Ranjith
that bridge is awsome!!!!
R
Posted by fatreg
Jn..
aqueduct
bridge
lookey there...
fatreg
Posted by *Jojo*
@fat - I guess I'll be calling it: Aque-Bridge !