Zuoz Bridge

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Zuoz Bridge

bridge, Switzerland

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Maillart’s innovations
…over the Inn River at Zuoz, he designed a curved arch and a flat roadway connected by longitudinal walls that turned the complete structure into a hollow-box girder with a span of 37.5 meters (125 feet) and with hinges at the abutments and the crown. This was the first concrete…
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…over the Inn River at Zuoz, he designed a curved arch and a flat roadway connected by longitudinal walls that turned the complete structure into a hollow-box girder with a span of 37.5 meters (125 feet) and with hinges at the abutments and the crown. This was the first concrete…
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