The Design and Construction of Jamuna Bridge, Bangladesh.

Tappin, R G R; Duivedijk, J Van; Haque, Mohammad Mahfujul

doi:10.1680/icien.1998.30822

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“…The Jamuna Multipurpose or Bangabandhu Bridge crosses the Jamuna downstream of Sirajganj. It was constructed between 1996 and 1998 [19], with an upstream railway bridge now being planned some 20 years after the bridge inauguration. The Padma Multipurpose Bridge crosses the Padma River near Mawa [3].…”

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“…As part of these investigations Inglis studied the performance of aprons consisting of angular and rounded rock and indicated the launching on 1V:2H slopes in single layer, first discussed in the paper of Gales, 1938 [16] and finally published in 1949 [32]. At the Jamuna crossing, a number of flow slides developed during construction along the dredged slope of the western guide bund [19]. As a result of these slides the underwater slope was changed from 1V:3.5H to 1V:5H or 1V:6H.…”

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A Century of Riverbank Protection and River Training in Bangladesh

Oberhagemann¹,

Haque

Thompson³

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Protecting against riverbank erosion along the world’s largest rivers is challenging. The Bangladesh Delta, bisected by the Brahmaputra River (also called the Jamuna River), is rife with complexity. Here, an emerging middle-income country with the world’s highest population density coexists with the world’s most unpredictable and largest braided, sand-bed river. Bangladesh has struggled over decades to protect against the onslaught of a continuously widening river corridor. Many of the principles implemented successfully in other parts of the world failed in Bangladesh. To this end, Bangladesh embarked on intensive knowledge-based developments and piloted new technologies. After two decades, successful, sustainable, low-cost riverbank protection technology was developed, suitable for the challenging river conditions. It was necessary to accept that no construction is permanent in this morphologically dynamic environment. What was initially born out of fund shortages became a cost-effective, systematic and adaptive approach to riverbank protection using improved knowledge, new materials, and new techniques, in the form of geobag revetments. This article provides an overview of the challenges faced when attempting to stabilize the riverbanks of the mighty rivers of Bangladesh. An overview of the construction of the major bridge crossings as well as riverbank protection schemes is detailed. Finally, a summary of lessons learned concludes the impressive progress made.

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A Century of Riverbank Protection and River Training in Bangladesh

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Haque

Thompson³

2020

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References have been split by chapter to ease sourcing material for the reader. This has entailed some references being repeated in a number of chapters. The two most heavily used references have abbreviated titles: ENR is the magazine Engineering-News Record, published by McGraw-Hill, and NCE is the magazine New Civil Engineer, published by Emap. Chapter 1 Batchelor, C. (2000) Construction: global growth in civil engineering to top 6%. Financial Times 11/2/00.

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