Strand Jacks Pull Their Weight On Tough Nevada Crossing

摘要

Construction engineers finishing up the country's longest cathedral-arch bridge in a tough, rocky patch of northern Nevada say they have found a new way to capitalize on the slow-and-steady power that strand jacks provide.rnC.C. Myers Inc., Rancho Cordova, Calif., is using a dozen of the 85-ton jacks fabricated by Milwaukee, Wis.-based En-erpac to lower falsework for the 1,722-ft-long Galena Creek Bridge.