Taiwan ROC - Kaoping River Cable-stayed Bridge 高屏溪斜張橋

 

Stamp Issue : 2000-02-02 

The Kaoping River cable-stayed bridge across Kaoping River is situated at the border of Kaohsiung and Pingtung Country. The total length of the bridge is 2,617 meters. The western section of it has a nonsymmetrical cable-stayed bridge design. The pylon, its main structure, is a single tower with an A-frame design, with a height of 183.5 meters. It has a side span of 180 meters that uses a prestressed concrete box beam. Its main spain is an extremely long 330 meters, and uses a completely welded steel-frame box beam. The middle section of the bridge, for which a balanced-cantilever design has been employed, has long spans. The eastern section of the bridge, which employs an advancing-shoring design, has spans of medium length. This magnificent and powerful design of the bridge as a whole is a triumph both of structural mechanics and esthetics.

高屏溪斜張橋位於臺灣高雄、屏東兩縣交界處，橫跨高屏溪，全長2,617公尺；西段採單塔不對稱式斜張橋設計，主體結構橋塔Ａ字型，高183.5公尺，側跨跨徑180公尺，為預力混凝土箱型梁，主跨跨徑330公尺採全焊接式鋼結構箱型梁；再由西至東分段採大跨徑之懸臂工法橋及中等跨徑之支撐先進工法橋設計，深具結構力學與美學特色。