World's tallest bridge completes load test in South West China
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in southwest China's Guizhou Province, set to become the world's tallest bridge, had completed a key load test as of Monday.
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00:00this record-breaking bridge in southwest china is nearly ready for traffic the huajiang grand canyon bridge in jiwejiyo province set to become the tallest bridge in the world has just passed a critical five-day load test
00:17engineers say the bridge's structural strength stiffness and performance all meet safety standards the final test involved ninety-six trucks driven across the deck
00:29in carefully staged batches to measure how the bridge responds to real-world stress spanning nearly two thousand nine hundred meters the bridge soars six hundred and twenty-five meters above the canyon below
00:44once open it won't just be the tallest bridge on earth it will also set the record for the longest span bridge ever built in a mountainous region
00:54completion could now be just around the corner
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