forces in motion

Applause on the highway for the Mega-MMBS

… 55 hours, 30 Mega-MMBS were installed, each weighing up to 8t. These foldable steel plates from MAURER can move in longitudinal direction and will bridge a 2.5-meter gap, which will emerge across the…

30-ton bearings for the new Danube Bridge in Bratislava

… the bearings will have to accommodate 4,000 t of horizontal forces. The bearing specialist MAURER has built the bearings, being the only manufacturer capable of designing bearings with these…

Noise-reduced expansion joints with special “tunneling”

… be watertight and noise-reduced and must be usable for all road users in the streetcar track area. MAURER developed a customized solution for the roadway expansion joints with a length of up to 43 m. In the…

Record bridge in Shanghai with expansion joints from Munich

…t of almost 2 meters in longitudinal direction at both bridge ends. The expansion joints were manufactured at MAURER in Munich. The “Hutong Yangtze River Bridge” (“Hu” is the abbreviation for Shanghai, “Tong”for…

400-ton pendulum in the onion

… the structure. The mass blockconsists of a massive steel box that was filled with concrete on site. MAURER not only manufactured the steel construction but also supervised the entireassembly and put the…

8-ton mass dampers for the tennis elite in Paris

… Paris, the top matches will take place without breaks due to rain – thanks to a new retractable roof. MAURER equipped the slender steel construction with dampers which immediately respond to vibra- tions: to…