The Strömsund Bridge ( Swedish : Strömsundsbron ) is a cable-stayed road bridge, bringing road E45 over Ströms vattudal , in Strömsund , Jämtland , Sweden .
6-524: The bridge is 332 m (1,089 ft) long, with a 182 m (597 ft) main span. Differing from what is stated almost throughout, the bridge was not designed by the German civil engineer Franz Dischinger , who at the time was already deceased. Instead, the design was submitted in 1953 for an international competition by the German steel construction company Demag (which had previously cooperated intensively with Dischinger). The structure, which opened in 1956,
12-431: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Franz Dischinger Franz Dischinger (8 October 1887 - 9 January 1953) was a pioneering German civil and structural engineer , responsible for the development of the modern cable-stayed bridge . He was also a pioneer of the use of prestressed concrete , patenting the technique of external prestressing (where the prestressing bars or tendons are not encased in
18-502: Is considered to be the world's first large cable-stayed bridge of the modern type and was built by Demag together with the Swedish concrete construction company Skanska. The bridge is colloquially referred to as "Jämtland's Golden Gate". 63°50′59″N 15°32′46″E / 63.84972°N 15.54611°E / 63.84972; 15.54611 This article about a bridge in Sweden
24-840: The Technische Hoschschule Dresden (now TU Dresden ), Germany. In 1922, he designed the Zeiss Planetarium in Jena with Walther Bauersfeld , using a thin-shell concrete roof in the shape of a hemisphere . Their system was subsequently patented, and Dischinger published a paper on the relevant mathematics in 1928. Since the previous stay and cable bridges in Dischinger's opinion were both flawed technically and disturbing looking, he decided to publish his own cable stayed bridge. This design has been used ever since, more than 100 of these cable stayed bridges have been built. For
30-464: The 1938 design of a rail suspension bridge (not built), he had studied historical bridges incorporating inclined stay elements, such as those by Ferdinand Arnodin and John Roebling . He went on to design the 183 m span Strömsund Bridge in Sweden , completed in 1955 and generally considered the first of the modern tradition of cable-stayed bridges, although there had been many isolated examples of
36-610: The concrete) in 1934. After completing Gymnasium in Karlsruhe , Germany, Dischinger went to the Technische Hoschschule Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ) where he studied and received a degree in building engineering. After getting his degree in 1913, he then started working for Dyckerhoff & Widmann A.G. , an engineering firm in Germany. In 1928 Dischinger went back to school to receive his doctorate at
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