CONSTRUCTION OF AKASHI KAIKYO BRIDGE

1. CONSTRUCTION OF AKASHI
KAIKYO BRIDGE
SUBMITTED BY
GOMATHI.R

2. CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
 DESIGNS AND CONSTRUCTION
IMPROVEMENTS
INTERESTING FACTS
 REFRENCES

3. INTRODUCTION
 THE AKASHI-KAIKYO BRIDE WAS BUILT IN THE YEAR
1988. THE BRIDGE WAS DONE ON 1998.
 AKASHI-KAIKYO IS IN JAPAN, CONNECTING CITY OF
KOBE TO AWAJI-SHIMA ISLAND.

5. DESIGNS AND CONSTRUCTION
STEPS IN CONSTRUCTION
EXCAVATION
FOUNDATION
LAYING OF TOWERS
CABLES
DECK

6. FOUNDATION

9. LAYING OF TOWERS

10. CABLES

14. DECK

17. 5TH APRIL 1998

18. IMPROVEMENTS

19. INTERESTING FACTS!!!!!!!
 IT COST $4.3 BILLION.
 IT'S LENGTH IS 12,828
FEET.
 IT'S PURPOSE WAS IT
WAS A ROADWAY.
 ABOUT 24,901 CARS
PASS ON IT EVERYDAY.
 HAS SIX TRAFFIC
LANES.
 THE STEEL CABLE
USED FOR THE BRIDGE,
CAN CIRCLE THE
WORLD SEVEN TIMES.

20. REFERENCES
 ARTICLE A MASTER OF MANY BY ROADS & BRIDGES MAGAZINE
GENERAL INFO OF AKASHI-KAIKYO BRIDGE BY
HTTP://HOMEPAGE1.NIFTY.COM/MOMOTAROH/E_SUB07_1
HTML AND ROADS & BRIDGES MAGAZINE HTTP://WWW.ROADSBRIDGES.COM/AKASHI-
KAIKYO-
LAYING DOWN CAISSON CONSTRUCTION METHOD BY
TTP://HOMEPAGE1.NIFTY.COM/MOMOTAROH/E_SUB07_1
HTML AND ROADS & BRIDGES MAGAZINE
HTTP://WWW.ROADSBRIDGES.COM/AKASHI-KAIKYO INFORMATION ABOUT
FOUNDATION AND ANCHORAGE BY AND ROADS & BRIDGES MAGAZINE
HTTP://WWW.ROADSBRIDGES.COM/AKASHI-KAIKYO-BRIDGE-ARTICLE1145

22. THANK YOU