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Third Street Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Concrete arch bridge over Pipe Creek on 3rd Street in Minneapolis
- Location
- Ottawa County, Kansas
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1915
- Design
- Closed-spandrel arch
- Dimensions
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Span length: 80.0 ft.
Total length: 80.0 ft.
Deck width: 18.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.12322, -97.71243 (decimal degrees)
39°07'24" N, 97°42'45" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/611300/4331240 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Minneapolis South
- Land survey
- T. 11 S., R. 4 W., Sec. 1
- Average daily traffic (as of 2001)
- 400
- Inventory numbers
- KS 000720779704206 (Kansas local bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 18364 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of January 2018)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 30.6 (out of 100)
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The Melan system used a series of parallel arched steel reinforcing, often small trusses. See fig. 5 here:
http://www.bma.arch.unige.it/pdf/construction_history_2009/v...
Although the steel may be covered by concrete it is sometimes possible to see a series of lines running parallel to the direction of travel indicating where the metal is beneath (above) the concrete.
Luten strategically placed his steel in the areas under highest tension, e.g. the bottom of the highest part of the arch, saving weight.