Railway arch span Kerch Bridgeremoved from the slipway, where it had been assembled for a year. Builders move the span, weighing more than 6 thousand tons, using elements of rods and pushing devices horizontally over a distance of almost 90 m. This complex process is carried out gradually, during the day and at night, with technical breaks. The arch will be loaded onto a floating system, which will transport it to the fairway supports of the bridge across the Kerch Strait, the Crimean Bridge information portal reports.
The railway arch consists of more than 400 large elements. To assemble it, almost 4 km of butt welds of the first category were made, over 600 thousand pieces (or 380 tons) of high-strength bolts were tightened. During the assembly, quality control specialists carried out more than 100 work inspections. The relocation operation began immediately after the completion of the arch span.
