Historical and architectural interest bridges
edit| Name | Burmese | Distinction | Length | Type | Carries Crosses |
Opened | Location | Division | Ref. | ||
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1 | U Bein Bridge | ဦးပိန် တံတား | Longest teak bridge in the world | 1,200 m (3,900 ft) | Trestle Wood |
Footbridge Taungthaman Lake |
1851 | Amarapura 21°53′29.1″N 96°03′21.8″E / 21.891417°N 96.056056°E |
Mandalay | [S 1] [1] |
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2 | Goteik viaduct | ဂုတ်ထိပ်တံတား | Highest bridge in Myanmar Height : 102 m (335 ft) |
689 m (2,260 ft) | Trestle Steel |
Railway bridge Gohtwin Stream |
1901 | Nawnghkio 22°20′35.5″N 96°51′33.8″E / 22.343194°N 96.859389°E |
Shan | [S 2] [2] [3] |
Major bridges
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List by state
edit- Ayeyarwady Division
- Bago Division
- Kachin State
- Kayah State
- Thanlwin Bridge (Hpasawng) (Hpasawng Bridge)
- Chin State
- Kettel Bridge
- Mon State
- Rakhine State
- Sagaing Division
- Shan State
- Yangon Division
See also
editNotes and references
edit- Notes
- ^ Also called Korea-Myanmar Friendship Bridge.
- ^ Also called Ayeyarwady Bridge or Yadanabon Bridge.
- ^ The bridge was replaced by a steel box girder bridge with new intermediate piles in 2022.[32]
- ^ The Irrawaddy Bridge at Nyaungdon is a mixed road / rail bridge which has a common part over the river, the two tracks branch off on either side of the central structure. The road section measures a total of 3,296 meters, the rail section 6,262 meters and the main truss structure 2,256 meters.
- ^ The Irrawaddy Bridge at Pakokku is a mixed road / rail bridge which has a common part over the river, the two tracks branch off on either side of the central structure. The road section measures a total of 4,126 meters, the rail section 6,278 meters and the main truss structure 3,484 meters.
- ^ The Ava Bridge (also called Inn Wa Bridge or Inwa Bridge) was the only bridge spanning the 2,200 kilometres (1,400 mi) of the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar until the 1990s.
- ^ The Thanlyin Bridge is a mixed road / rail bridge which has a common part over the river, the two tracks branch off on either side of the central structure. The road section measures a total of 2,151 meters, the rail section 2,938 meters and the main truss structure 1,808 meters.
- ^ The Thanlwin Bridge is a mixed road / rail bridge which has a common part over the river, the two tracks branch off on either side of the central structure. The road section measures a total of 3,528 meters, the rail section 6,596 meters and the main truss structure 2,347 meters.
- Nicolas Janberg. "International Database for Civil and Structural Engineering". Structurae.com.
- ^ "U Bein Bridge".
- ^ "Goteik Viaduct".
- ^ "Gyaing River Bridge".
- ^ "Aung Zeya Bridge".
- ^ "Twantay Bridge".
- ^ "Irrawaddy Bridge".
- ^ "Myaungmya River Bridge".
- ^ "Myittha Bridge".
- ^ "Ahtayan River Bridge".
- ^ "Maha Bandula Bridge".
- ^ "Bayint Naung Bridge".
- ^ "Minbu Bridge".
- ^ "Pakokku Bridge".
- ^ "Ava Bridge".
- ^ "Sittaung Bridge".
- ^ "Yangon-Thanlyin Bridge".
- ^ "Thanlwin Bridge".
- Others references
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- ^ "Gokteik Railway Viaduct, Nawnghkio, Shan, Myanmar". Highestbridges.com.
- ^ Wohlers, David C.; Waters, Tony (September 26, 2022). "The Gokteik Viaduct: A Tale of Gentlemanly Capitalists, Unseen People, and a Bridge to Nowhere". Social Sciences. 11 (10). doi:10.3390/socsci11100440.
- ^ International Highway in Mekong Region 3, "Figure 6.5.8 Configurations of Steel Cable Stayed Bridge(Gyaing Zathapyin Bridge)" (PDF). pp. 6–55.
- ^ a b "လူမှုစီးပွားဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှုကို အထောက်အကူဖြစ်လာစေမည့် ဂျိုင်း(ဇာသပြင်)နှင့် အတ္တရံတံတား" [Jai (Zathaphain) and Atram Bridge, which will help socio-economic development]. Mdn.gov.mm - Myanmar Digital News (in Burmese). Retrieved April 23, 2023.
- ^ a b International Highway in Mekong Region, "Current Condition of Bridge" (PDF). p. S-7.
- ^ a b International Highway in Mekong Region, "Gyaing Zathapyin Bridge & Atran Bridge" (PDF). p. S-16.
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- ^ Myint, Kayan Soe; Hlaing, Moe Myint (July 19, 2010). "Leinli: highest suspension bridge on Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana-Pinlaung motor road" (PDF). The New Light Of Myanmar. 18 (89): 1 & 8.
- ^ Bridge Engineering Training Centre Project, "Aungzaya(INSEIN)Br" (PDF). p. 34.
- ^ Bridge Engineering Training Centre Project, "Pathein Br" (PDF). p. 42.
- ^ Kitratporn, Nuntikorn; Takeuchi, Wataru; Matsumoto, Koji; Nagai, Kohei (2018). "Structure Deformation Measurement with Terrestrial Laser Scanner at Pathein Bridge in Myanmar". Journal of Disaster Research. 13 (1): 40–49. doi:10.20965/JDR.2018.P0040. S2CID 126144158.
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- ^ Myanmar's Bridge Work, "Twantay Bridge" (PDF). p. 44.
- ^ Mon, Yi Yi; Khaing, San Yu (2017). "Evaluation of Safety Performance of Fractured Joints in Steel Truss Bridge" (PDF). American Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences (ASRJETS). 36 (1): 24–44. ISSN 2313-4410.
- ^ Bridge Engineering Training Centre Project 2, "Yadanabon Br" (PDF). p. 51.
- ^ Detailed Design Study on the Bago River Bridge Construction Project (PDF) (Report). Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). December 2017. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
- ^ Detailed Design Study on the Bago River Bridge Construction Project - Package 2 Volume 4 Drawings (PDF) (Report). Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). October 2017. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
- ^ International Highway in Mekong Region 3, "Figure 6.5.7 Configurations of Extradozed Bridge (Atran Bridge)" (PDF). pp. 6–54.
- ^ Bridge Engineering Training Centre Project 2, "Myaungmya Br" (PDF). p. 44.
- ^ Myanmar's Bridge Work, "Myaungmya Bridge" (PDF). p. 19.
- ^ "Ministry Blames Fatal Bridge Collapse On Outdated Design". Irrawaddy.com. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
- ^ Bridge Engineering Training Centre Project 2, "Lapuda Br" (PDF). p. 46.
- ^ "State Counsellor attends launch of Labutta (Pinlal Lay) Bridge in Ayeyawady delta". Globalnewlightofmyanmar.com. Archived from the original on December 25, 2019.
- ^ International Highway in Mekong Region 3, "Figure 6.5.6 Configurations of Extradozed Bridge (Gyaing Kawkareik Bridge)" (PDF). pp. 6–53.
- ^ "JICA/Japan join the actual construction works of East-West Economic Corridor at Gyaing-Kawkareik Bridge". Jica.go.jp.
- ^ "Construction of Gyaing (Kawkareik) Bridge". Myanmarbyfiets.wordpress.com. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
- ^ a b "ပုသိမ် - ကံကုန်း - မြင်းကဆိပ် - မြောင်းမြလမ်းပေါ်ရှိ ပမ္မဝတီတံတားအား တံတားခံနိုင်ဝန်တန် (၆၀)သို့ အဆင့်မြှင့်တင် တည်ဆောက်သွားမည်" [The Pammawati Bridge on the Pathein - Kankone - Myengkay - Surrey road will be upgraded to Naiwanton (60)]. Myanmardigitalnewspaper.com (in Burmese). Retrieved April 23, 2023.
- ^ Bridge Engineering Training Centre Project 2, "Panmawaday Br" (PDF). p. 48.
- ^ International Highway in Mekong Region, "Current Condition of Bridge" (PDF). p. S-6.
- ^ International Highway in Mekong Region, "Gyaing Kawkareik Bridge" (PDF). p. S-15.
- ^ "လူမှုစီးပွား ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှုကို အထောက်အကူပြုလာစေမည့် ဧရာဝတီတံတား (သရက်-အောင်လံ)" [The Irrawaddy Bridge (Tharek-Aung Lam) which will contribute to socio-economic development]. Myanmar Digital News (in Burmese). Retrieved April 23, 2023.
- ^ "သံလွင်တံတား(ချောင်းဆုံ) မြစ်ကူးတံတား တည်ဆောက်ပြီးစီးပါက မော်လမြိုင်-ချောင်းဆုံ ဥဒဟိုသွားလာနိုင်မည်". moi.gov.mm (in Burmese).
- ^ "တစ်နှစ်အတွင်း အောင်မြင်စွာတည်ဆောက်ခဲ့သည့် မြောင်းမြတံတားသစ်ကြီး ဖွင့်တော့မည်" [The new Myaungmya Bridge, which was successfully built within a year, is about to open]. Mdn.gov.mm - Myanmar Digital News (in Burmese). Retrieved April 23, 2023.
- ^ "ပုသိမ်တံတားအမှတ် (၂) တည်ဆောက်ရေး လုပ်ငန်းများ ပြီးစီးပြီဖြစ်ပြီး သြဂုတ် ၂၂ ရက်တွင် တံတားခံနိုင်ဝန်အား စမ်းသပ်မည်" [The construction work of Pathein Bridge No. 2 has been completed and the bridge will be tested on August 22nd]. News-eleven.com (in Burmese). Retrieved April 23, 2023.
- ^ Myanmar's Bridge Work, "Mahar Bandoola Bridge" (PDF). p. 32.
- ^ Myanmar's Bridge Work, "Bayinaung Bridge" (PDF). p. 15.
- ^ Myanmar's Bridge Work, "Tha Yu-Pa‐PA done Bridge" (PDF). p. 48.
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- ^ Myanmar's Bridge Work, "Maubin Bridge" (PDF). p. 21.
- ^ Myanmar's Bridge Work, "Bomyatun Bridge" (PDF). p. 24.
- ^ Myanmar's Bridge Work, "Shwe Pyithar Bridge" (PDF). p. 33.
- ^ Bridge Engineering Training Centre Project, "List of completed bridges, 180ft and above in length, since 1988" (PDF). p. 4.
- ^ "Golden nut fixed at first truss of Ayeyawady River Bridge (Nyaungdon)" (PDF). The New Light Of Myanmar. 18 (284): 1 & 8. January 30, 2010.
- ^ Bridge Engineering Training Centre Project 2, "Pakokku Br" (PDF). p. 60.
- ^ "Ayeyawady Bridge (Pakokku), the longest of its kind in Myanmar, put into service" (PDF). The New Light Of Myanmar. 19 (255): 1 & 8. January 1, 2012.
- ^ "ลาว-พม่าเปิดใช้สะพานมิตรภาพข้ามโขงแห่งแรกวันเสาร์ 9 พ.ค.นี้" [The first Lao-Myanmar friendship bridge across the Mekong will be opened this Saturday, May 9]. Manager.co.th (in Thai). Archived from the original on April 13, 2016.
- ^ "Lao-Myanmar Bridge". Ltec.com.la. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
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- ^ "Thanlwin Bridge (Mawlamyine), longest and largest in Myanmar, emerges to serve interests of State and region" (PDF). The New Light Of Myanmar. 12 (296): 1, 6, 7, 11, 16. February 6, 2005.
- ^ "Bridges, roads not for economic profit, but for regional development Mawlamyine Railway Station, Thanlwin Bridge (Mawlamyine) rail bridge open". Missions.itu.int. Archived from the original on April 15, 2012.
- ^ Bridge Engineering Training Centre Project 2, "Malun Br" (PDF). p. 63.
- ^ Bridge Engineering Training Centre Project, "Ngawun Br" (PDF). p. 40.
- ^ Naing, Win (July 29, 2009). "Sittaung Bridge (Motpalin), Gateway to Mon State" (PDF). The New Light Of Myanmar. 17 (104): 1 & 7.
- ^ Bridge Engineering Training Centre Project, "On-the-Job Training" (PDF). p. 18.
- ^ "Preparatory Survey Report on the Project for Construction of New Thaketa Bridge in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar" (PDF). Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). November 2014. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
- ^ Bridge Engineering Training Centre Project, p.141
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Further reading
edit- Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
- Research Study on Review and Application of the Bridge Engineering Training Centre Project in Myanmar - Part 1 (PDF) (Report). September 2012.
- Part 2 (PDF) (Report).
- Preparatory Survey for the Project for Strengthening Connectivity of International Highway in Mekong Region - Part 1 (PDF) (Report). December 2016.
- Research Study on Review and Application of the Bridge Engineering Training Centre Project in Myanmar - Part 1 (PDF) (Report). September 2012.
- "Current Situation and Issues of Myanmar's Bridge Work" (PDF). Japan Infrastructure Partners (JIP). September 2012.
- Khin, Maung Zaw (November 24, 2017). Rehabilitation of major steel bridges in Myanmar under seismic risks (PDF) (Thesis). Kyoto University. doi:10.14989/doctor.k20760. hdl:2433/228234.
- Oo, Myint Myat; Kyi, Cho Cho Thin; Zin, Win Win (November 2019). "Historical Morphodynamics Assessment in Bridge Areas using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques". Civil Engineering Journal. 5 (11). doi:10.28991/cej-2019-03091429. ISSN 2676-6957.
- Zaw, U Han (October 30–31, 2013). Panel Discussion of Bridge (PDF). 30th Japan Road Conference, Toshi Center Hotel.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to List of bridges in Myanmar.
- "Ministry of Construction - Department of Bridge". Construction.gov.mm (in Burmese).
- "Brücken in der Myanmar" [Bridges in Myanmar]. Brueckenweb.de (in German).
- Denenberg, David. "Suspension Bridges of Myanmar". Bridgemeister.com.
- Sakowski, Eric. "Category: Bridges in Myanmar". Highestbridges.com.