Bridge across the river Wall at Nijmegen (Netherlands)

Bridge across the river Wall at Nijmegen (Netherlands)


purpose:road bridge
load-bearing structure:steel beam stiffened with an arch; lower box section bridge deck
span:285 m
weight:6 040 t
investor:the City of Nijmegen
commissioning:2013

Complex basic geometry and camber created many surfaces, which could not be simply developed. The developed sheets had to be processed using a special function for developing doubly curved bodies (software Siemens NX).