New Hoover Dam Bridge

Between Nevada and Arizona

Hoover Dam

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Nevada

Hoover Dam
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Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam Bridge

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Nevada

State line
Time zone line

Arizona
Hoover Dam

Hoover Dam Bridge

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New method to build

a reinforced concrete
bridge without the
conventional
temporary shoring

The suspension cables for temporary support

suspension cable

High line
cable conveyor

Reusable metal
sliding formwork

Suspension cables
temporary support
System

The concrete Arch designed for carrying

the temporary and permanent load

Conventional scaffold system, too expensive ! !

Steel strut

Reinforced concrete twin Arch

connected by steel struts

Steel Box Girders and

concrete roadway deck

Colorado
River

Lower twin arch was completed

Cut off the suspension

cables, when concrete
up to its strength

Reusable metal
sliding formwork
for reinforced
concrete columns

The upper deck

columns, build
on the top of the
lower twin arch

Steel Box
Girders

Pre-stressed concrete
and steel box
composite Girders

Hoover Dam Bridge over Colorado River

Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge

Opened Oct. 19, 2010

The center line of Colorado River and Hoover Dam Bridge was
State Line of Nevada and Arizona, and also a Time Zone
divided line of Pacific and Mountain Time, If drive from west to
the east, when you pass the bridge, you will enter Arizona and
gain one extra hour.
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Name of the Bridge

In the beginning called : Hoover
now the official name was :

Dam Bypass Bridge

Mike OCallaghan Tillman Killey

Memorial Bridge
Mike O'Callaghan Joined the Marines at sixteen, 1952 he lost
part of his left leg in the battle of Korean War, 1971 to 1979 was
Governor of Nevada, later he was the Executive Editor at the
Las Vegas Sun newspaper, he died on March 5, 2004.
Tillman Killey Arizona famous NFL football player, he gave up
his well paid job and joined the army, he died by a friendly fire
in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004.
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Hoover Dam Bridge technical information

Designer : T. Y. Lin International ( )

1988 finished the investigation and environmental report.
The design work start in July 2001 & finish two years later.
Bridge length : 1900 ft ( 580 m ).
Arch span : 1060 ft ( 320 m ).
Bridge width : Four lane highway.
Bridge height : 840 ft ( 263 m ) , 2nd height of U.S.
Bridge away from Hoover Dam : 1600 ft ( 550 m).
Construction began on Feb. 2005 and completion on Oct.2010.
Construction cost : 114 million.
This is the first Concrete-and-steel composite arch bridge built in
United State.
Pedestrian access is provided over the bridge for tourists.
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Hoover Dam technical information

Hoover Dam was built after 1930 Great Depression, it was a
project to increased job for American worker.
Type : Concrete gravity - arch dam
Top width : 45 ft ( 14 m), Base width : 660 ft ( 200 m)
Dam height : 726 ft ( 230 m), and 1245 ft (380 m) long
Construction begin at 1931 and finish at 1936
Total cost : 49 million
Reservoir : 28,537,000 Acre ft (35,200 Kilo cubic meter)
Power annual generation : 4.2 Billion kwh
Worker : Hired 5500 construction workers, Chinese labor was
forbidden by construction contract.
Hoover Dam was a tour spot, every year more than million of
peoples visit there.
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