The Paton Welding Journal, 2013, №12



2013 №12 (05)

2013 №12 (07)

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The Paton Welding Journal, 2013, #12, 33-38 pages

THE E.O. PATON ALL-WELDED BRIDGE IS SIXTY YEARS OLD

L.M. LOBANOV and V.I. KYRIAN

E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute, NASU. 11 Bozhenko Str., 03680, Kiev, Ukraine. E-mail: office@paton.kiev.ua
 
 
Abstract
The question of construction of motor-road bridge across the Dnieper river was raised before the Great Patriotic War. By that time the technical project of the bridge with driving atop and split through main truss girders, manufactured using riveting, was drawn up and approved. In that period at the Electric Welding Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the UkrSSR the method of automatic submerged arc welding was developed allowing producing high-quality welds and Evgeny O. Paton proposed to manufacture spans of the bridge using welding. In spite of the opinion of opponents, the initiative of Evgeny Paton was supported by the Government of the USSR, and the decision was taken to construct the Kiev bridge applying welding with riveted site joints. To fulfill the project, the supports were manufactured in 1940-1941, and at the plant of metal structures in Dnepropetrovsk the production of assembly elements of spans using automatic submerged arc welding began. However, the construction of bridge was interrupted because of the war, and it was restored after its termination. As far as equipment and technologies providing high quality of assembly welds were created by that time, Evgeny Paton proposed to construct all-welded bridge in Kiev across the Dnieper river applying automatic welding not only under shop conditions, but also in site. The all-welded Kiev bridge across the Dnieper river was constructed in close cooperation with the Kiev enterprise «Proektstalkonstruktsia», the plant of metal structures in Dnepropetrovsk, Bridge Construction Group of the Ministry of Rail Roads, the E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the UkrSSR and the Ministry of Municipal Economy of the UkrSSR. 3 Ref., 16 Figures.
 
 
Keywords: automatic submerged arc welding, all-welded bridge, spans, assembly elements, construction, collaboration of organizations
 
 
Received:                04.11.13
Published:               28.12.13
 
 
References
1. Paton, E.O., Gorbunov, V.I. (1933) Principles of design of welded bridges. Avtogennoe Delo, 4, 2-5.
2. Lobanov, L.M., Kyrian, V.I., Shumitsky, O.I. (2003) Fifty years of the E.O. Paton bridge. The Paton Welding J., 10/11, 12-20.
3. Paton, E.O., Lebed, D.P., Radzevich, E.N. et al. (1954) Application of automatic welding in construction of large town all-welded bridge. Kiev: AN UkrSSR.

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