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New Bridge ()

Project description mageba scope Highlights & facts The River, which forms part The bridge’s deck is supported by ten of the border between Luxembourg RESTON®SPHERICAL bearings, two at each mageba products: and , has for many years been of five axes including the two abutments. Type: RESTON®SPHERICAL crossed by a road bridge between the Resistance to transverse movement at the and RESTON®FORCE towns of Grevenmacher in Luxembourg abutments is provided, not by the spherical bearings and Wellen in Germany. In the early bearings at those locations which are Features: Uplift protection years of this century, it became apparent designed as Type KA (free sliding) bearings, Installation: 2013 that the existing bridge needed to be but by separate RESTON®FORCE Type F Structure: demolished and rebuilt. A new bridge was horizontal force bearings. These resist only City: Grevenmacher / Wellen therefore designed, for vehicular, cycle transverse forces, of up to 350 kN, while Country: Luxembourg / Germany and pedestrian traffic, and constructed in allowing longitudinal movements of up to Completed: 2013 2013. The new structure is an arch bridge 210 mm. Type: Arch bridge of length 213 m. Fabricated some distance The RESTON®SPHERICAL bearings are Length: 213 m away, the superstructure was transported designed to carry loads of up to 21,000 kN, to site on a barge, rotated through 90 and a number feature uplift protection, degrees and fixed in place. resisting upward forces of up to 900 kN.

The bridge crosses the Moselle River on the border Two RESTON®SPHERICAL bearings (at sides) and one A RESTON®FORCE Type F bearing as installed, secu- between Luxembourg and Germany. RESTON®FORCE bearing, at one abutment. ring the deck transversely at an abutment.

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