A bridge with an innovative and unpublished Italian technology will be built in China.
In the presence of the Minister of Industry, Antonio Marzano, an operative agreement was signed today at midday, at the China World Hotel; the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) and “Ponte di Archimede” S.p.A. are the leading exponents of this agreement.
This agreement will lead to a project and implementation of a prototype of a Submerged Floating Tunnel, “Archimede’s Bridge”. For the first time in the whole world this sort of innovative "Submerged Floating Tunnel” will be accomplished in the Qiandao Lake – Lake of a Thousand Island -, sheet of water situated in Zhejiang region (Central China).
The prototype is the prelude of an “Archimede’s Bridge” construction of 3200 metres long, linking the continent and the Jintang Island, in the Archipelagos of Zhoushan, South of Shanghai.
The first step in making the agreement operative is the founding of a Sino-Italian Joint Laboratory (SIJLAB), in addition to the Chinese Academy of Science and to “Ponte di Archimede” S.p.A., the Polytechnic of Milan and the University of Naples “Federico II” for Italy and, of the Chinese side, the Tongji University of Shanghai and the Zhejiang University of Hangzhou, will give their scientific contribution too.
Everyone will work for the prototype design of “Archimede’s Bridge” in the Qiandao Lake, Italian and Chinese scientists and academics will be in network in the centers of the CAS Institute of Mechanics in Beijing and at the Ponte di Archimede SpA in Messina.
Prof. Federico Perrotti of the Polytechnic of Milan and Prof. Federico Mazzolani of the University of Naples “Federico II” are the scientific representatives of the two Italian Universities.
Shortly there will be the formulation of an executive project. Near the CAS an entire building will be built, equipped with the most advanced instruments, among which a sophisticated naval basin suitable for experimenting the realization of “Archimede’s Bridge” Prototype.
The structure will be financed by the same CAS, by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China and by the Chinese National Foundation for Natural Science.
The agreement was signed by Prof. Hong Youshi, Director of the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Science and by Elio Matacena, president of “Ponte di Archimede”.
“This agreement crowns a twenty year pioneer engagement in the field of “Applied, innovative technology to engineering”, suggesting a valid alternative to traditional bridges” – Elio Matacena said.
“The People’s Republic of China is permeated by a thrust towards an economic and social development, different from the rest of the world. Demonstrated by the fact that China wants to participate in an enterprise which will put it in advantage in the field of huge infrastructures”.
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