EUGENE TALMADGE MEMORIAL BRIDGE

Location:

Savannah, Georgia, USA

Description:

The Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge crosses the Savannah River in the City of Savannah, Georgia.

Total length: 621 m (2037 ft.)
Main span: 335 m (1100 ft.)

Owner:

State of Georgia

Client:

Guy F. Atkinson Construction Company

Scope of Work:

Buckland & Taylor Ltd. provided construction engineering to the Contractor for the balanced canteliver erection scheme and designed the form travellers for this cast-in-place concrete cable-stayed bridge. The Company used the wind analysis results derived from our step-by-step erection analysis to develop and design the temporary cable restraint system for the partially erected structure. This restraint system had to be designed to withstand hurricane force winds. A water ballast system in the 200 ton form travellers controlled bridge stresses and geometry to an accuracy of +- 25 mm (1 inch) during segment casting.

Two senior Buckland & Taylor Ltd. engineers were cited by Engineering News Record Magazine for the construction engineering of this bridge.

Completed in 1991.

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