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Yangenhe Bridge is the second highest crossing on the one of two nearly equal sized beam bridges along the Xigou River canyon just a kilometer apart on the spectacular G42 expressway near Wushan City in the 3 Gorges region of the Yangtze River.  The other beam span is the Jiaoziping Bridge.
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Yangenhe Bridge is the second highest crossing on the one of two nearly equal sized beam bridges along the Guiyweng expressway between Guiyang city and Weng'an.  The route is far more famous for the spectacular Qingshuihe suspension bridge to the west but the Yangenhe Bridge still has some impressive stats with piers 108 and 104 meters tall supporting a configuration of 2x40 +86+160+86+ 4x40 meters.
  
What makes the Jiaoziping and Yangjiawu Bridges unnerving is the precariously steep slopes that would seem to be impossible to build on.  Yet there they are - piers as tall as 93 meters, planted into the side of a mountain.  The western slopes are especially steep with nearly 15 meters of the foundation piles exposed below the bottom of the piers.   
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The bridge is located several kilometers west of Weng'an city at kilometer 97.   
  
The two bridges may cross very similar canyons but the pier engineering is different with Jiaoziping having a closed box for the lower half with the upper 40 meters consisting of an open box composed of two parallel walls that are each 1.5 meters thick.  For the Yangjiawu #2 Bridge the piers are open all the way up the pier but the two walls are approximately double the thickness of Jiaoziping.
 
 
 
The stretch of the G42 expressway west of Wushan in Chongqing Province was completed in 2009 while the eastern stretch of the G42 in Hubei Province opened in 2013.  Both Jiaoziping and Yangjiawu #2 Bridges were completed in early 2012 but did not open to traffic until 2013. 
 
 
  
 
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Yangjiawu #2 Bridge Elevation<br />
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Yangenhe Bridge Elevation<br />
 
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The Western piers of Yangjiawu Bridge #2 were built on slopes that are between 60 and 80 degrees.
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Yangenhe Bridge satellite image.
  
  
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Yangjiawu Bridge #2
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Yangenhe Bridge location map.
 
 
 
 
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Nearby neighbor Jiaoziping Bridge with a similar height of 150 meters and a span of 150 meters.
 
  
  

Revision as of 05:45, 13 March 2014

Yangenhe Bridge
岩根河大桥
Weng'an, Guizhou, China
(500) feet high / (152) meters high
525 foot span / 160 meter span
2017


Yangenhe Bridge is the second highest crossing on the one of two nearly equal sized beam bridges along the Guiyweng expressway between Guiyang city and Weng'an. The route is far more famous for the spectacular Qingshuihe suspension bridge to the west but the Yangenhe Bridge still has some impressive stats with piers 108 and 104 meters tall supporting a configuration of 2x40 +86+160+86+ 4x40 meters.

The bridge is located several kilometers west of Weng'an city at kilometer 97.



Yangenhe Bridge Elevation


Yangenhe Bridge satellite image.



JiaozipingEngineers.jpg

Yangenhe Bridge location map.


JiaozipingEngineers.jpg