Kien Stay Cable Bridge – Vietnam

The first SSI 2000 in Vietnam.

▲ Kien Stay Cable Bridge in the opening ceremony

The Kien bridge is located just bridge, which is presently also under Due to the tight cycle schedule and
outside Hai Phong City, about 102 construction. the very short time allotted to VSL for
km east of Hanoi and 7 km west of stay cable erection
Hai Phong. With more than 700 m of approach
bridge and 370 m
This first stay cable bridge in the (85 m + 200 m + 85 m) of main
North of Vietnam is crossing the Cam bridge, Kien Bridge is a key project
River, approximately 3 km upstream on No. 10 Highway Project.
of the Binh stay cable
The bridge deck is build using
precast segments 16.7 m
wide with free cantilever
Scope of works performed erection method and supported by 72
cable stays from
• Detailed design of the stay cable two 90 m pylons.
components, with materials and
corrosion protection. The VSL team is a truly international
• Supply and installation 220 tons one with Vietnamese project
of VSL SSI 2000 stay cable manager supported by a site team
system with size from 6-37 featuring a Vietnamese site engineer,
to 6-55. an Indonesian production manager, a
• Provision for individual strand Swedish stay expert and experienced
forces for installation and strand Philippines stay cable supervisors.
elongation for adjustment.
• Execution of fatigue test
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for 6-37. ▲ 700 m of approach bridge and 370 m of

main bridge
the decision was made to pre-cut
strands into final length on the bridge
deck rather than pulling them from
coils. The strands have been
installed using the single strand
installation technique.
More specifically, the de-tensioning
work in adjustment was performed
by using VSL multi-strand jack ZPE-
1000 with
special lifting beam designed and OWNER
fabricated by TCAA. Vietnam S.R Government - PMU 18
Kien Bridge was a good challenge ENGINEER
Nippon Koei - TEDI in Association
for VSL Vietnam Ltd. and created a
premise for the wide application of MAIN CONTRACTOR
stay cable bridge in Vietnam. Sumitomo Mitsui - Thang Long JV
VSL ENTITY
Construction time: 05 months VSL Vietnam Ltd.
(from May 2003 to Sep 2003)

▼ Installation of Multi-Strand Jack ZPE-1000 SA6-55 using special lifting beam

▼ Strand-by-Strand Installation from Pre-cut Strands

Edited 2008

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