4 Steel Marvels in India
Earthquake-resistant Structure
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#1
The Chenab Bridge
Height
: 359 meters
World's heighest arch bridge in India
About
28,000
tonnes of steel
63 mm-thick
special blast-proof steel
#2
The Pamban Bridge
Height
: 359 meters
India's first vertical lift railway bridge over the sea
About
28,000
tonnes of steel
SS 2205 duplex grade
of stainless steel
#3
The Anji Khad Bridge
Length
: 490 meters
India's first cable-stayed railway bridge
7,000
reinforcement steel
+
6,700
million
tonnes of structural steel.
#4
The Howrah Bridge
A huge steel bridge over the Hooghly River
26,500 tons of steel
, out of which 23,000 tons of high-tensile alloy steel, known as
Tiscrom
, were supplied by
Tata Steel
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how steel provides the safety against natural disasters like
Earthquake
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