Anji Khad Bridge is India’s first cable-stayed railwaybridge.

Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw at this time shared a timelapse video of the making of the Anji Khad bridge, which is now prepared to be used. This is India’s first cable-stayed rail bridge, which has 96 cables. The complete size of cable strands is 653 km.

The timelapse video was shared with a caption that reads, “In 11 months, India’s first cable-stayed rail bridge is ready. All 96 cables are set! #AnjiKhadBridge PS: Total length of cable strands 653 km”.

In 11 months, India’s first cable stayed rail bridge is prepared.
All 96 cables set! #AnjiKhadBridge
PS: Total size of cable strands 653 km🌁 pic.twitter.com/CctSXFxhfa

— Ashwini Vaishnaw (@AshwiniVaishnaw) April 28, 2023

Every single cable’s placement, from the primary to the final, is seen within the video.

The bridge is constructed within the Reasi district of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir underneath probably the most difficult Udampur-Srinagar-Baramulla-Rail Link (USBRL) Project of Indian Railways.

The bridge is about 80 kilometres by street from Jammu.

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— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 29, 2023

Anji Khad Bridge is the nation’s “first cable-stayed bridge” on Indian Railways, connecting Katra and Reasi in Jammu and Kashmir. The bridge is part of the nationwide challenge, the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) Project.

The bridge is situated within the younger fold mountains of the Himalayas, which have extraordinarily advanced, fragile, and daunting geological options within the type of faults, folds, and thrusts, moreover the seismic proneness of the area. Detailed site-specific investigations have been carried out by IIT, Roorkee, and IIT, Delhi.

Slopes of the mountain supporting one basis of the primary span have been stabilised by a particular hybrid basis on the Katra finish on account of house constraints.

The main portion of the bridge works, together with the primary pylon with a 40-metre-deep hybrid basis, the central embankment, and the ancillary viaduct, have been carried out on the Srinagar finish.

The complete size of the bridge is 725.5 metres. Considering the benefit of development and typical website situations, the bridge has been divided into 4 components: a 120 m lengthy strategy viaduct (referred to as an “ancillary viaduct”) on the Reasi aspect, a 38 m lengthy strategy bridge on the Katra finish (CA2), the primary bridge, crossing the deep valley (473.25 m cable-stayed portion), and the central embankment (94.25 m), situated between the primary bridge and an strategy (ancillary) viaduct.

The primary bridge over Anji is a cable-stayed bridge with a complete size of 473.25 m and a primary span of 290 m. Anji Khad Bridge connects tunnels T2 and T3 on the Katra-Banihal Section of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link challenge.

This bridge has a single primary pylon of 193 metres in peak from the highest of the muse, standing at a peak of 331 metres above the river mattress.

The complete size of the bridge is 725 m, consisting of the primary bridge with a size of 473.25 metres, an ancillary viaduct of 120 metres in size, an strategy bridge of 38 metres on the Katra finish, and the central embankment of 94.25 metres in size.

It is an asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge balanced on the axis of a central pylon. The complete deck width of the bridge is 15 metres.

The Anji khad Bridge has the assist of 96 cables, with cable lengths starting from 82 m to 295 m. The micropiles of 40-metre depth throughout the circumference of the 20-metre hybrid effectively basis have been utilized in the primary pylon development.

The bridge shall carry a single railway line plus a 3.75 m-wide service street; there’s a 1.5m vast footpath on either side of the deck with an total width of 15 m.

The Anji Khad Bridge has been designed to deal with heavy storms with robust winds. The design wind velocity thought-about is 213 kmph.

Various distinctive methods and gear are getting used, like DOKA Jump-Form Shuttering and Pump Concreting Systems, to extend effectivity, present larger employee security, and save development time by about 30 p.c.

A state-of-the-art tower crane (imported from Spain) of 40 T capability with an extendable peak of as much as 205 metres is getting used for enhancing development actions at heights as much as 193 m. The Anji Khad Bridge has an built-in monitoring system by way of quite a few sensors put in at numerous places on the bridge.

The work for Detailed Design and Construction Supervision (DDC) of this iconic bridge has been assigned to the Italian firm ITALFERR (an organization belonging to the Italian State Railways Group “Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane”), and proof checking was assigned to the corporate COWI, UK. The design has been based mostly on Indy, began by Photo by Eurocodes, the place mandatory.

The design velocity of the road is 100 km/h, a restrict that doesn’t pose issues for the train-structure interplay.

Site-specific earthquake parameter research have been carried out by the Department of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, to outline the seismo-tectonic framework for the area.

Due to the significance of the bridge, a lot of sensors will probably be positioned on it to watch the structural well being of the bridge throughout service.

(With inputs from ANI)