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Where the cables hold the bridge
Each stay cable is anchored inside a steel box in the pylon. We made 60 of them, 18 T each, for the Missing Link cable-stayed bridge.
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The steel boxes inside a cable-stayed bridge pylon that anchor the stays: E410 plate, anchor tubes at each stay’s angle, machined bearing plates and shear studs.
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Each stay cable is anchored inside a steel box in the pylon. We made 60 of them, 18 T each, for the Missing Link cable-stayed bridge.
Scroll to see how it is built · drag to turn it round
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E410 plate cut and bevelled, welded into a stiff box, matched course to course so the stack goes up true.
Used here for: The box
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Each tube set at its stay’s angle in a jig; an error here is an error in the bridge.
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The plates the anchors bear on, machined flat.
Used here for: Bearing plates
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Studs on the outer faces tie the box into the concrete.
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Boxes, tubes, bearing plates and studs.
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