Gjemnessund Bridge (Gjemnessundbrua) is a suspension bridge that crosses Gjemnessundet between Gjemnes on the mainland and Bergsøya in Møre og Romsdal county in Norway. This article is concerned with a particular type of suspension bridge the suspended-deck type Gjemnes is a municipality in the county of Møre og Romsdal, Norway on the Romsdal peninsula. is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Sogn og Fjordane. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional It is the longest suspension bridge in Norway, although it is not the longest span. The bridge is 1257 metres long, the main span is 623 metres, and the maximum clearance to the sea is 43 metres. The bridge has 21 spans.
Gjemnessund Bridge was opened in 1992. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) It was built as part of Krifast, the town of Kristiansund's road connection to the mainland. Kristiansund is a city and municipality on the western coast of Norway, in the Nordmøre district of the county Møre og Romsdal
Many bridges slowly deteriorate and need to be repaired because the salty seawater damages the concrete and the iron inside it. Gjemnessund Bridge has had a problem with seabirds, whose manure contain salt and ammonia. The salt and ammonia damages the concrete. To prevent this, the bridge is cleaned, and the critical parts of the concrete are covered with an elastic membrane that protects the concrete against the manure and the harmful content. [1]
See also
- List of bridges in Norway
- List of bridges in Norway by length
- List of bridges
- List of bridges by length
- List of largest suspension bridges
- Bergsøysund Bridge
- Straumsund Bridge
External links
- A page about Gjemnessund Bridge (in Norwegian)
- A picture of the bridge
- Gjemnessundbrua in the Structurae database
- The World's Longest Tunnel Page (bridge section)
