karnafuli bridge

Karnafuli Bridge

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Karnafuli Bridge a 919.48m long road bridge over the Karnafuli watercourse at Chandgaon upazila, metropolis district. essentially it's a steel span on steel pile foundation. 

The folks of metropolis and its conterminous space were apprehensively searching for a bridge over the watercourse Karnafuli to increase the town on the far {side} the Karnafuli watercourse to the southern side and to link Cox,s Bazar and different areas by road.
The Government of Bangla Desh negotiated with the Royal Dutch Government of The Netherlands for constructing the Karnafuli Bridge with their help. The Dutch Government found the project economic, possible and in agreement to construct a bridge over the Karnafuli in metropolis by reusing a 922m portion of their japanese river Bridge underneath the Dutch Grant BD/86/030. A contract was signed in Dhaka in Jan 1988 with a Dutch venture Interbeton/HCG b.v. for the development of the bridge. The bridge was scheduled to be completed in Dec 1989. As per terms of the mutual affection between the 2 governments the approach roads were to be created by the Bangla Desh Government. However, the most bridge was completed in June 1989. Recently the bridge has been named as monarch Amanat Bridge.
The location of the most bridge is concerning 700m upstream of Iqbal steps, about 1.5 klick upstream of Sadarghat and concerning seven klick downstream of Kalurghat Railway Bridge, Chittagong. The roadway is 7m wide and is 2 laned. The walk is one.5m on either facet. the ground or decking of the bridge is created from Azobe timber with protecting hydrocarbon stone drips coating. direction clearance (ie distinction between watercourse water level and base of the bridge) is twelve.2 m. The Bridge will resist the wind force upto two hundred klick per hour. On account of earthquake allowable horizontal force on the bridge is zero.10 G. most allowable speed of current is a pair of.5m/sec. most allowable temperature variation is 45'C. Allowable utility line loading is three KN/m. Total value of the project together with main bridge and approach roads was Tk 1415.3 million, whereas total value of the most bridge was Tk 775.4 million. The length of the roads from metropolis facet is five klick and from patiya facet is ten.5 km. Total length of the roads together with bridge is sixteen.5 km. The dimension of the pavement from Bahaddarhat to Fakirer Tek is seven.3m and between Patiya and Anwara road portion is five.48 m. The crest dimension of road from Bahaddarhat to Fakirer Tek is twelve.2m and between Patiya and Anwara is nine.75m. On detection of crack on the surface planks of the bridge the plying of significant vehicles was created restricted from 2000. The bridge is currently operative.
The construction of the third Karnafuli Bridge began in August 2006 underneath the joint support of the govt of Bangla Desh and of Kuwait. The length of the bridge is 950 m and also the breadth is twenty four.4 m. the most bridge with its four-track pathway and dividers measures 830 m of that the bridge is a hundred and twenty m. the price of construction of the bridge together with the connecting roads on each side was calculable at 590 large integer Bangladeshi monetary unit, out of that the Kuwait government has paid Bangladeshi monetary unit 372 crores as loan. The balance is borne by the Bangla Desh government. the full expenditure incurred for the development of the bridge stands as Bangladeshi monetary unit 380 crores. The bridge has been created by the China Major Bridge Engineering Company restricted. Out of a complete of 10 pillars of the bridge, four pillars ar at the central purpose of the watercourse and 6 pillars ar on its north and southern sides. it's the sole bridge of the country engineered underneath additional Dose Cable Straid technology. The 3 years termed project although scheduled to be completed in 2009 couldn't be finished in time thanks to late in constructing the connecting roads. The bridge was created open for vehicles in Sep 2010. The bridge can create the communication easier for the folks of the region together with south metropolis and Cox's Bazar, and can have positive influence on the economy of the country.