Union Minister launches 40-m girder for bullet train project
Union Minister of State for Railways Darshana Jardosh, who is also the BJP MP from Surat city, launched the casting of a full span pre-stressed concrete (PSC) box girder to be used for the Ahmedabad-Mumbai High-Speed Rail Corridor, popularly known as the ‘bullet train’ project, at Nasilpore in Navsari Monday.
The PSC box girder weighs around 970 tonne and will be the heaviest in the construction industry in the country. The 40-m span girder is being cast as a single piece, i.e., without any construction joint, with 390 cubic metres of concrete and 42 metric tonnes of steel. The full-span launching methodology will accelerate the overall construction by almost seven times compared to segmental launching.
