An enormous mountain overpass standing at a whopping 565 metres high on a gorge (1,854 feet) opened to traffic today in south-west China.





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-4073400/Now-s-HIGH-way-world-s-highest-bridge-standing-1-850-feet-gorge-opens-traffic.html

The Beipanjiang Bridge, which reportedly cost 1.023 billion yuan (£120 million) to build, overtook the 560-metre-high (1,837 feet) Sidu River Bridge, also in China, to become the highest bridge in the world,

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Don't look down: At 1,340 metres (4,396 feet) long, the four-lane structure is billed as the world's highest bridge in the world.

The completion of the ambitious project means that eight of the world's 10 highest completed bridges are now located in China almost all are situated in remote mountainous provinces, according to highestbridges.com.

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The Beipanjiang Bridge, which reportedly cost 1.023 billion yuan (£120 million) to build, overtook the 560-metre-high (1,837 feet) Sidu River Bridge, also in China, to become the highest bridge in the world,

If you've ever been to Montreux Switzerland, you'd find something as tall as this there,may not be the longest though.

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Among the top ten, the other two bridges are in Papua New Guinea and Mexico, claimed the same website.

The Beipanjiang Bridge took the Chinese bridge experts three years to build and was completed on Saturday.

Location of the bridge.




SKY IS THE LIMIT: THE WORLD'S TOP 10 HIGHEST BRIDGES (IN FEET)

1. Beipanjiang Bridge Duge, China 1,854 feet (2016).

2. Jinshajiang Bridge, China, 1,680 feet (2021).

3. Sidu River Bridge, China, 1,627 feet (2009).

4. Puli Bridge, China, 1,591 feet (2015).

5. Yachi Bridge, China, 1,444 feet (2016).

6. Qingshuihe Bridge, China, 1,332 feet (2016).

7. Hegigio Gorge Pipeline Bridge, Papua New Guinea, 1,542 feet (2005).

8. Baluarte Bridge, Mexico, 1,280 feet (2013).

9. Balinghe Bridge, China, 1,214 feet (2009).

10. Beipanjiang Bridge Guanxing, China, 1,200 feet (2003).

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Wow.. Just wow!
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WARNING: Call me an ambulance at ur own risk
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#ProudlyEngineer!

But why is it not breaking at the middle despite the heavy vehicles that will be plying it, because i can't see any support here.

see bridge

... Woaw! A place I can sit to reflect.
One 9ja mum would be like; Chukwudi, make ground do you waka ooo. That thing wey dem mount for there, make breeze no blow you climb am ooo. My enemies won kee theirselves say na me.

wow most of the bridge are from the east [asia]

Explorers:
But why is it not breaking at the middle despite the heavy vehicles that will be plying it, because i can't see any support here.

I Think that is the work of those steal cable .they are creating a kind of equillibrum in the middle .you will notice the pillars at which the bridge is suspended on is.not sitting at exactly 90° .

I watched the documentary. It is really amazing how they precisely align the edges of the bright together.

I watched the documentary. It is really amazing how they precisely align the edges of the bridge together.

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I Think that is the work of those steal cable .they are creating a kind of equillibrum in the middle .you will notice the pillars at which the bridge is suspended on is.not sitting at exactly 90° .

Amazing engineering at its peak.

Funny thing, do you believe that each of those cables will be as thick as the attached picture?

It belongs to Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco.

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Amazing engineering at its peak.

Funny thing, do you believe that each of those cables will be as thick as the attached picture?

It belongs to Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco.

I can believe this

Scary af, don't see myself on it

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Amazing engineering at its peak.

Funny thing, do you believe that each of those cables will be as thick as the attached picture?

It belongs to Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco.

wow maybe so because it need to withstand stress

Explorers:
But why is it not breaking at the middle despite the heavy vehicles that will be plying it, because i can't see any support here.

Suspension cables.. The loads are transferred through the cables to the piers, which in turn transmit the loads down to the foundations.

Explorers:
But why is it not breaking at the middle despite the heavy vehicles that will be plying it, because i can't see any support here.

F=ma...

force is equal to the product of mass × acceleration (due to gravity).

Those steel cables attached to the braces by the side of the bridge at specific intervals makes up for the equilibrium position of the places without pillar support...

The structural and civil engineers would have calculated the expansivity of the asphalt used, total tensile stress and strain against the force of gravity and mass of the total number of vehicles and their acceleration to manufacture the steel cables strong enough to compliment the weight and tip the total equilibrium position of the bridge to "balance"...


I'm just saying.

Explorers:


Amazing engineering at its peak.

Funny thing, do you believe that each of those cables will be as thick as the attached picture?

It belongs to Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco.

Yes.I think d pics below should explain better.The main steel cables are extremely thick. Each main cable is composed of smaller cables bound together to form an extremely strong single cable.

Amazing!

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Location of the bridge.




SKY IS THE LIMIT: THE WORLD'S TOP 10 HIGHEST BRIDGES (IN FEET)

1. Beipanjiang Bridge Duge, China 1,854 feet (2016).

2. Jinshajiang Bridge, China, 1,680 feet (2021).

3. Sidu River Bridge, China, 1,627 feet (2009).

4. Puli Bridge, China, 1,591 feet (2015).

5. Yachi Bridge, China, 1,444 feet (2016).

6. Qingshuihe Bridge, China, 1,332 feet (2016).

7. Hegigio Gorge Pipeline Bridge, Papua New Guinea, 1,542 feet (2005).

8. Baluarte Bridge, Mexico, 1,280 feet (2013).

9. Balinghe Bridge, China, 1,214 feet (2009).

10. Beipanjiang Bridge Guanxing, China, 1,200 feet (2003).

And this guys are naturally short.

This is simply amazing.