Английская Википедия:Friarton Bridge
Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use Scottish English Шаблон:Infobox Bridge Шаблон:Commons category The Friarton Bridge is a steel box girder bridge with a concrete deck, across the River Tay on the southeastern outskirts of Perth, Scotland. It is located approximately Шаблон:Convert upstream of the Tay Road Bridge.
Design
The bridge was constructed by the Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company with Miller Group as the foundation and concrete sub-contractor, while it was designed by Freeman Fox & Partners, with the team being led by Dr Oleg Kerensky and the resident engineer H Binnie. The site manager for Cleveland was J Robinson and for Miller it was R Gormley.
The bridge consists of a pair of steel box girders (one under each carriageway) Шаблон:Convert wide overlaid by a lightweight concrete deck. The bridge is Шаблон:Convert long, with a river span of Шаблон:Convert. The river span provided a Шаблон:Convert head room for a width of Шаблон:Convert of the Шаблон:Convert wide navigation channel. The boxes vary in depth between Шаблон:Convert, with the deeper section located close to the river.
It forms part of the eastern spur of the M90 between junctions 10 (Craigend) and 11 (Broxden), the most northerly motorway junction in the UK. It also forms part of the important east coast road corridor from Edinburgh through to Dundee and Aberdeen. It was the single largest structure on the M90, a title it held until the completion of the Queensferry Crossing in 2017. It was the first large box girder bridge to be built to the Merrison Rules, which were introduced in 1973 after the collapse during construction of three box girder bridges during the 1970s. The bridge was strengthened during the 2000s to cope with modern traffic loadings.
The bridge spans the river, the Dundee-Perth railway line, a number of warehouses and the A85 high above the surrounding plain.
It is a two-lane dual carriageway; unusually for a motorway (although not unusually for the M90) neither carriageway has a hard shoulder. When it was built in 1978, it was designated as the M85 motorway. When the A85 from the north end of the bridge to Dundee was renumbered in the early 1990s to A90 through to Dundee, the motorway's designation changed to M90 to provide a continuous route number from Edinburgh through to Fraserburgh.
Gallery
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Another view from Kinnoull Hill, showing the M90's junction with the A85
References
The Journal of the institution of Structural Engineers ; The Structural Engineer Volume 58A Number 12 December 1980; Design and construction of Friarton Bridge Шаблон:River Tay
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