Steel-Concrete Composite Bridges in High-speed Railways--Matsubara Bridge: Erection under Severe Conditions

摘要

As mentioned above, construction of the Shinkansen lines in Japan has been in progress on a sustained base. An outline of Shinkansen projects is shown in Fig.l (a). The red lines in the figure show the recent construction of Shinkansen. The extension of the Tohoku Shinkansen to the northern part of Japan was completed in December 2010, and that of the Kyushu Shinkansen to the southern part of Japan is slated in March 2011. The inauguration of these new lines means that all regions from the northern area of Honshu to the southern area of Kyushu will be connected by highspeed railways, and thus the mobility is expected to significantly increase throughout Japan (note: Hokkaido Island will be connected by Shinkansen in 2015).