China says it has completed a load test that includes dozens of trucks on the world’s highest bridge, a steel suspension structure in the province of Guizhou.
The five -day tests were completed on August 25, with details of the project available to the media.
A test team drove 96 trucks to places designated on the bridge, reports the BBC.
Lei min, director of loading testing, told CCTV based on China that “we simulate extreme conditions with 3,360 tons of load to activate the maximum capacity of the bridge structure under normal use”.
It is planned to open in September, the bridge is in the autonomous prefecture of Qiannan Buyi and Miao.
The roof of the bridge is 2,083 feet on a river, which the BBC said “will set a record for both the highest bridge in the world and a larger extension over a mountainous area.”
According to an impression on bridge loading tests published by the Transport Research Board in 2019, bridge loading tests date back to history. Loading tests have also been part of the bridge inspection procedures dating to 1891.
According to the introduction of the printing, “at times when engineering models were not as accurate and available as today, a critical step in the construction of a bridge was to load the test before the opening or during the opening ceremony.”
“Performing the load test and measurement of measuring demonstrated to the public that the bridge was safe,” says the printing. Several bridges, such as a steel frame on the Morava river, near Ljubitschewo, Serbia, a bridge on the road near Salez, Switzerland and a suspension bridge in Maurin, France, collapsed during these loading tests.
