Puli Bridge - Revision history

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 ,060 foot span / 628 meter span<br />
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 这座桥是G56杭瑞高速公路一部分，这段高速公路从云南宣威通到贵州六盘水，直到毕节联结G76厦蓉高速公路。这一云南/贵州边界地区将成为中国山地高桥的新热点。除普立特大桥外，附近还有都格北盘江大桥（2016年建成后会取代普立成为世界最高桥），北盘江铁路桥，水盘高速北盘江大桥，抵母河大桥等。

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 Puli Bridge surprised and shocked the bridge community when it become the world's second highest suspension bridge in 2015 with a deck 485 meters over the surface of Puli creek.  The inaccessible terrain on the east and west slopes along Puli Creek made it difficult for the bridge engineers to create an exact topographic model of the bottom of the Puli Creek canyon and once rock stability was ensured near the towers there was little need for them to find out how far down the elevation of the creek was.  In 2014 I was able to measure the height from the construction catwalk of the main cables confirming a vertical drop of 485 meters.  With the center of the span at around 1,828 meters, the bottom of the nearby Gexiang River Gorge is approximately 600 meters lower at around 1,228 meters elevation.
-The main span of 628 meters is unique among China's highest suspension bridges in that it has a thin, steel box deck girder instead of the usual truss.  The Longjiang Bridge - also in Yunnan Province - utilizes an aerodynamic box deck girder.  The entire main span of Puli is composed of 52 segments of 12 meters in length.  Puli Bridge will remain the highest bridge in Yunnan Province until the Jinshajiang Bridge Jin'an surpasses it in 2021.
+The main span of 628 meters is unique among China's highest suspension bridges in that it has a thin, steel box deck girder instead of the usual truss.  The Longjiang and Lvzhijiang Bridges - also in Yunnan Province - also utilize an aerodynamic box deck girder.  The entire main span of Puli is composed of 52 segments of 12 meters in length.  The towers have a maximum height of 156.5 meters supporting two main cables composed of 91 full-length cable strands.  The steel box girder is an orthotropic design with a width of 28.5 metes and a depth of 3 meters.  The thickness of the steel plate on the deck is 16mm while the bottom plate is 10mm thick.  The wire hangars are spaced 12 meters apart.  The slope of the deck is 1.65%.
 The first pilot line for the main cable was shot across the canyon tethered to the back end of a rocket in early 2013.  This is only the 3rd time this has ever been done after the Siduhe and Lishuihe Bridges.
-The span is part of the new G56 expressway that connects the city of Xuanwei, Yunnan with Liupanshui, Guizhou as well as the G76 expressway in Bijie, Guizhou.  This entire Yunnan/Guizhou border region is becoming a new hot spot of high Chinese bridges.  In addition to Puli they include the nearby Beipanjiang Bridge Duge which is the World's Highest Bridge as well as the Beipanjiang Railway, Beipanjiang Shuipan and Dimuhe Bridges.
+The span is part of the great G56 Hangrui Expressway that connects the city of Xuanwei, Yunnan with Liupanshui, Guizhou as well as the G76 expressway in Bijie, Guizhou.  This entire Yunnan/Guizhou border region is becoming a new hot spot of high Chinese bridges.  In addition to Puli they include the nearby Beipanjiang Bridge Duge which is the World's Highest cable stayed bridge as well as the Beipanjiang Railway Bridge Shuibai, Beipanjiang Shuipan and Dimuhe Bridges.

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	这座桥是G56杭瑞高速公路一部分，这段高速公路从云南宣威通到贵州六盘水，直到毕节联结G76厦蓉高速公路。这一云南/贵州边界地区将成为中国山地高桥的新热点。除普立特大桥外，附近还有都格北盘江大桥（2016年建成后会取代普立成为世界最高桥），北盘江铁路桥，水盘高速北盘江大桥，抵母河大桥等。		这座桥是G56杭瑞高速公路一部分，这段高速公路从云南宣威通到贵州六盘水，直到毕节联结G76厦蓉高速公路。这一云南/贵州边界地区将成为中国山地高桥的新热点。除普立特大桥外，附近还有都格北盘江大桥（2016年建成后会取代普立成为世界最高桥），北盘江铁路桥，水盘高速北盘江大桥，抵母河大桥等。
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