This list ranks the world's
cable-stayed bridge
A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which wire rope, cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or wikt:stay#Etymology 3, stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, norm ...
s by the length of main span, i.e. the distance between the suspension towers. The length of the main
span is the most common way to rank
cable-stayed bridge
A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which wire rope, cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or wikt:stay#Etymology 3, stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, norm ...
s. If one bridge has a longer span than another, it does not mean that the bridge is the longer from shore to shore, or from anchorage to anchorage. However, the size of the main span does often correlate with the height of the towers, and the
engineering
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complexity involved in designing and constructing the bridge.
Cable-stayed bridges with more than three spans are generally more complex, and bridges of this type generally represent a more notable engineering achievement, even where their spans are shorter.
Cable-stayed bridges have the second-longest spans, after
suspension bridge
A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck (bridge), deck is hung below suspension wire rope, cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern examples of this type of bridge were built in the early 1800s. Simple suspension bridg ...
s, of bridge types. They are practical for spans up to around . The
Russky Bridge
The Russky Bridge () is a cable-stayed bridge in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia. The bridge connects the Russky Island and the Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula sections of the city across the Eastern Bosphorus strait, and with a central span of ...
over the
Eastern Bosphorus in
Vladivostok
Vladivostok ( ; , ) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai and the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia. It is located around the Zolotoy Rog, Golden Horn Bay on the Sea of Japan, covering an area o ...
,
Russia
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, with its span, has the longest span of any cable-stayed bridge, displacing the former record holder, the
Sutong Bridge
The Sutong Yangtze Bridge (; , ) is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the Yangtze in China between Nantong and Changshu, a satellite city of Suzhou, in Jiangsu province.
Design and construction
The Sutong Yangtze River Bridge was designed by Dr. ...
over the
Yangtze River
The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ) is the longest river in Eurasia and the third-longest in the world. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and flows including Dam Qu River the longest source of the Yangtze, i ...
in the
People's Republic of China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
on 12 April 2012.
Completed cable-stayed bridges
This list of largest cable-stayed bridges includes all bridges with a main
span of at least in length. This list only includes bridges that carry
vehicular
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traffic, such as
automobile
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s or
trains
A train (from Old French , from Latin">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... , from Latin , "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles th ...
. It does not include
suspension bridge
A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck (bridge), deck is hung below suspension wire rope, cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern examples of this type of bridge were built in the early 1800s. Simple suspension bridg ...
s,
footbridge
A footbridge (also a pedestrian bridge, pedestrian overpass, or pedestrian overcrossing) is a bridge designed solely for pedestrians.''Oxford English Dictionary'' While the primary meaning for a bridge is a structure which links "two points at a ...
s or
pipeline bridges.
Cable-stayed bridges under construction
Planned and proposed bridges
Longest cable-stayed bridge decks
The definition of cable-stayed bridge deck length used here is: A continuous part of the bridge deck that is supported only by stay-cables and pylons, or are free
spans. This means that columns supporting the side span a
for examplefound in
Pont de Normandie
The ''Pont de Normandie'' () is a cable-stayed road bridge that spans the river Seine linking Le Havre to Honfleur in Normandy, northern France. Its total length is – between the two piers. It is also the last bridge to cross the Seine before ...
, excludes most of the side span decks from the cable-stayed deck length.
There are some bridges with long bridge decks whose span lengths have not been published, and therefore are missing.
Extradosed bridge
An extradosed bridge employs a structure that combines the main elements of both a prestressed box girder bridge and a cable-stayed bridge. The name comes from the word ''wikt:extrados, extrados'', the exterior or upper curve of an arch, and refe ...
s are not included. The thirty longest decks are:
Timeline of world record lengths
Many early
suspension bridge
A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck (bridge), deck is hung below suspension wire rope, cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern examples of this type of bridge were built in the early 1800s. Simple suspension bridg ...
s included cable-stayed construction, including the 1817 footbridge
Dryburgh Abbey Bridge
Dryburgh Abbey Bridge was a cable-stayed bridge, cable-stayed footbridge of significant historical interest erected near Dryburgh Abbey, in the Scottish Borders, Borders of Scotland. It connected the villages of Dryburgh and St. Boswells (part o ...
,
James Dredge's patented
Victoria Bridge, Bath (1836), and the later
Albert Bridge, London
Albert Bridge is a road bridge over the River Thames connecting Chelsea, London, Chelsea in List of sub-regions used in the London Plan, Central London on the north Bank (geography), bank to Battersea on the south. Designed and built by Rowlan ...
(1872), and
Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is a cable-stayed suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first fixed crossing of the East River. It w ...
(1883). Their
designer
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s found that the combination of technologies created a stiffer bridge.
Albert Caquot
Albert Irénée Caquot (; 1 July 1881 – 28 November 1976) was a French engineer. He received the “Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)” (military honor) and was Grand-croix of the Légion d’Honneur (1951). In 1962, he was awarded the Wi ...
's 1952 concrete-decked cable-stayed bridge over the
Donzère-Mondragon canal at
Pierrelatte is one of the first of the modern type, but had little influence on later development.
The steel-decked
Strömsund Bridge designed by
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 t ...
(1956) is therefore more often cited as the first modern
cable-stayed bridge
A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which wire rope, cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or wikt:stay#Etymology 3, stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, norm ...
.
This list tracks the bridge having the longest cable-stayed main
span through time.
:''This list may be incomplete and detailed sources for pre-modern cable-stayed bridges may not be available, so the timeline might not be accurate.''
See also
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List of longest suspension bridge spans
The world's longest suspension bridges are listed according to the length of their main span (i.e., the length of suspended roadway between the bridge's towers). The length of the main span is the most common method of comparing the sizes of ...
*
List of cable-stayed bridges in the United States
*
List of spans
The following is a list of spans, either used for overhead line crossings of rivers, sea straits or valleys, as antenna or for aerial tramways.
Powerline spans in flat areas with high pylons
At these spans the sag of the conductors is less th ...
— list of remarkable permanent wire spans
*
Floating cable-stayed bridge
*
Cable-stayed suspension bridge
A cable-stayed suspension bridge or CSS bridge merges the designs of cable-stayed bridges and suspension bridges. The suspension bridge's architecture is better at handling the load in the middle of the bridge, while the cable stayed bridge is b ...
References
*Nicolas Janberg, ''
Structurae.com'', International Database for Civil and Structural Engineering
*Others references
Further reading
* — includes a list of major cable-stayed bridges by length
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External links
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Lists of bridges
Lists by length
Bridges, cable-stayed
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