Tampico Bridge
| Tampico Bridge | |
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Bridge and Pánuco River
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| Coordinates | 22°13′42″N 97°50′13″W / 22.22833°N 97.83694°WCoordinates: 22°13′42″N 97°50′13″W / 22.22833°N 97.83694°W |
| Crosses | Pánuco River |
| Locale |
Tampico, Tamaulipas & Pueblo Viejo Municipality, Veracruz, Mexico |
| Official name | Puente Tampico |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Cable-stayed bridge |
| Total length | 1,543 m (5062 ft) |
| Width | 18 m (59 ft) |
| Height | 55 m (180 ft) |
| Longest span | 360 m (1181 ft) |
| History | |
| Opened | 1988 |
The Tampico Bridge (Spanish: Puente Tampico) is a vehicular cable-stayed bridge connecting the Mexican states of Tamaulipas and Veracruz in eastern Mexico.
I would suggest that the Tampico bridge was not yet built in 1988. I crossed the Panuco River with my motorcycle on the ferry in 1989, and there was no bridge at that time. One can not overstress the importance of this bridge as route 180 is the main north-south road along the east coast of Mexico. Prior to completion of the bridge, cars and trucks were lined up in both directions for many miles waiting to cross the river on the ferry. The wait to cross took days, not hours. Now there is no wait, just a small toll.
The bridge crosses the Pánuco River near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
It connects the city of Tampico in Tamaulipas and Pueblo Viejo Municipality in Veracruz.
The bridge has been in service since 1988 and was designed by Professor Modesto Armijo from COMEC, a Mexican engineering company. It was designed to withstand the severe Atlantic hurricanes from the Gulf of Mexico.
The bridge uses an orthotropic steel deck girder for a central section of the 360 metres (1,180 ft) long main span, while the rest of the main span and the short lateral spans are a prestressed concrete girder. Both steel and concrete deck girders have the same external shape. This original design principle was later used for the 756 metres (2,480 ft) main span of the Pont de Normandie, a cable-stayed bridge in Normandy, France.
The dynamic analysis of the bridge under turbulent cyclonic winds, as well as the revision of the structural project, and the geometry plus stress control of the bridge during erection, were achieved by Alain Chauvin from Sogelerg, using the French "Scanner" computer program.
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