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The bridge, which cost €60 million, [10] is named for Irish writer Samuel Beckett (1906–1989). It was officially opened to pedestrians on 10 December 2009 by Dublin Lord Mayor , Emer Costello [ 1 ] [ 11 ] and to road traffic at 7 am the following day.
The Samuel Beckett bridge is a cable stayed, steel box girder structure with a span of 123m over the Liffey. Designed by Santiago Calatrava in conjunction with Roughan O’Donovan (Dublin); the bridge was built by Graham Hollandia Joint Venture Contractors. Graham constructed the abutments, river pivot pier and the roadworks.
- Graham Hollandia Joint Venture
- Steel
- Santiago Calatrava
- Cable-stayed (swing)
- Introduction
- Geometry
- Concept
- Structural Design
- Construction Process
- References
The Samuel Beckett Bridge is one of the many bridges that crosses over the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland. It joins Sir John Rogerson’s Quay on the south side to Guild Street and North Wall Quay in the Docklands area. The bridge was named after Samuel Beckett, Nobel Laureate, to complement the sister bridge, James Joyce, located up stream. It is a...
Cross section of the deck
The width of the bridge is around 27 m, and it has two pedestrian and cycle tracks plus four lanes for vehicles. Two of these lanes can be adapted to accommodate trams in the future. It is a steel multi-cell box girder from which the ribs and steel decking forming the pedestrian and cycle tracks cantilever. The top plate of the box is only 14 mm thick, but it has 12 mm trapezoidal stiffeners every 0.5 m. The back span houses the counterbalance (concrete and steel) and the plates are not stiff...
Cables
The cable-stays are locked coil cables, that is, they are formed by strands arranged in concentric layers about a central one. The front span is supported by 25 cables of 60 mm in diameter set in a ‘harp’ formation. There are 6 stronger cables in the back with a diameter of 145 mm.
Pylon and foundation
Its support consists of a circular concrete pier of varying diameter sitting on a foundation made out of bored concrete piles and a concrete pile cap. The concrete pier has an outer diameter of 8,6 m at the base and 15 m at the top, with a height of 10 m. Inside, there is a 10 m long central steel tube with a diameter of 2,5 m and a plate thickness of 120 mm, which is welded to the deck below the base of the pylon, to transfer the load to the pile cap below. There is a main vertical bearing a...
When the bridge is closed, it sits on a continuous horizontal elastomeric bearing ring on the rim of the support pier, and it is kept into position by two pairs of locking pins at each end, that are inserted into housings cast into the abutments. The expansion joints at each end of the bridge are formed by movable steel boxes, which are controlled ...
This special bridge was designed for two different situations, as it has to resist live loads (traffic and pedestrians) when closed, but it also has to bear its own weight when it’s opened and only supported on the pylon. The worst case of analysis is the opened situation, where forces and deflection of pylon and deck had to be minimized by designi...
The construction started with an installation of a 20 m square AZ46 sheet piled cofferdam, driven to the top of the bedrock (about 3 m deep in the soil), in order to build the foundation. Walers and struts were progressively installed as the cofferdam was dewatered. It was necessary to place concrete as a bottom strut before the cofferdam could be ...
https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/10.1680/bren.2011.164.3.133 http://www.bridgesofdublin.ie/bridges/samuel-beckett-bridge/design-and-engineering http://dofengineers.com/project/samuel-beckett-bridge/
The Samuel Beckett bridge is a cable stayed, steel box girder structure with a span of 123 meters over the Liffey, which rotates through 90 degrees. The pylon curves northwards to a point 48 meters above the water level with 25 cables set in a harp formation. The deck consists of two pedestrian and cycle tracks, two traffic lanes and two lanes ...
The Samuel Beckett Bridge was co-funded by Dublin City Council, the Dublin Docklands Authority and the Department of Environment, Heritage and Culture. The cost, including approach road upgrades, was €60 million. The opening ceremony, on December 10th, 2009 was attended by Beckett’s niece and nephew and by Nobel Laureate, the late poet ...
The bridge is inspired by traditional Irish harp. The harp is a true symbol of Ireland in its design so the cables are reminiscent of the strings and so the bridge is a mixture of symbolism and modernity. Calatrava Bridge was named for Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.
They were anxious for Beckett, in time, to enter the family business. Instead Beckett chose exile and writing. Or perhaps they chose him. Either way, whereas the man left Dublin, his writings reveal that Dublin never left the man. The Samuel Beckett Bridge was so named by Dublin City Council, twinning Beckett with his friend Joyce whose ...
