土木工程(桥梁)专业跨越世纪之桥大学毕业论文外文文献翻译及原文.docxVIP

毕业设计（论文）外文文献翻译 文献、资料中文题目：跨 文献、资料英文题目： A Bridge For All Centuries 文献、资料来源： 文献、资料发表（出版）日期： 院（部）: 专 业： 班 级： 姓 名： 学 号： 指导教师： 翻译日期： 2017.02.14 毕业设计 外文翻译 题 目跨越世纪之桥 专 业 土木工程（桥梁） A Bridge For All Centuries An extremely Ion g-a nd record sett in g-ma in spa n wasdesig ned for the sec ond bridge to across the PanamsCanal in order to meet the owner s requirement that no piers be placed in the water.Because no disruption of canal traffic was permitted at any time,the cable-stayed bridge of cast-in-place cancrete was carefully constructed using the balanced-cantilever method. In 1962 ,the Bridge of Americas(Puente de las America) opened to traffic,serving as the only fixed link across the PanamaCanal .The bridge was designed to carry 60,000 vehicles per day on four lanes, but it has beenoperating above its capacity for many years.Toalleviate bottlenecks on the route that the bridge carries over the canal-the Pan-American Highway(Inter-American Highway)-and promotegrowth on the western side of Panama,the country s Ministry of Public Works(Ministerio de Obras Publicas,or MOP )decided to build a new highway systerm linking the northern part of PanamaCity,on the eastern side of the canal, to the town of Arraijan,located on the western side of the canal.The Centennial Bridge -namedto commemoratelOO years of Panamanian independence-has noe been constructed and, when opend, will carry six lanes of traffic. This cable-stayed bridge of cast-in-place cancrete features a main span of 42Om,the longest such span for this type of bridge in the Western Hemisphere. In 2OO the MOP invited international bridge design firms to compete for the design of the crossing, requesting a two-package proposal:one techinical, the other financial. A total of eight proposals were received by December2OOO from established bridge design firms all over the world. After short-listing three firms on the basis of the technical merits of their proposals, the MOPselected T.Y.Lin International, of San F