ASCE will be sunsetting the Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) in the coming months. We encourage you to start using the ASCE Library to perform content searches. In the ASCE Library, you can save your search results as well as receive email content alerts when new content relevant to your area of interest is published. Try it out today at https://ascelibrary.org.

 

Bridge

Serial Information: Civil Engineering—ASCE, 1984, Vol. 54, Issue 7, Pg. 31-33


Document Type: Feature article

Abstract:

Named Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement of the Year, the Luling-Destrehan Bridge across the Mississippi River, twelve miles north of New Orleans, has a 1,222 ft. main span that is the world's second longest. Built of weathering steel, it was designed to withstand 200mph hurricane winds. One caisson was designed to be constructed by the floating mehtod.

Subject Headings: Bridge engineering | Wind engineering | Weathering | Steel | Rivers and streams | Hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones | Caissons

Services: Buy this book/Buy this article

 

Return to search