METHOD FOR SETTING OF FLOATING BRIDGE Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: bridge-building industry. SUBSTANCE: method implies movement by floating of pontoon-carried bridge structure to place of setting, installation of bridge structure onto supports by immersing it by way of filling its ballast compartments with water. Prior to that, assembled pontoon-carried bridge structure is position afloat in waiting chamber located along ground surface roadway and connected to water flow bed. Before start of moving pontoon-carried bridge structure to bridge setting place, it is brought for its entire length into water flow bed. At place of bridge setting, after alignment of bridge structure axis with axis of ground surface roadway, bridge structure is fixed to shore abutments made in line with ground surface roadway, then pontoon-carried bridge structure is installed on supports made in shore abutments. EFFECT: high efficiency. 6 dwg