| Foreword | |
| Strait crossings in and around Denmark | p. 3 |
| The Normandie bridge | p. 11 |
| Chanakkale Ataturk Bridge | p. 21 |
| The Northumberland Strait Crossing Project | p. 37 |
| The Trans-Tokyo Bay Highway: Socioeconomic benefits and environmental measures | p. 53 |
| Lantau Fixed Crossing: Development and progress | p. 69 |
| Design and construction of the Askoy suspension bridge | p. 75 |
| East Bridge: Status report of design and construction | p. 83 |
| Environmental harmony of strait bridges | p. 91 |
| Design of Kurushima Bridge: Aesthetics and aerodynamics | p. 99 |
| The ship impact protection of the Great Belt suspension bridge | p. 107 |
| The application of wind-tunnel testing of long-span bridges to their construction | p. 115 |
| The open steel deck cable-stayed bridge | p. 123 |
| Bridge designs | p. 133 |
| Aesthetics and construction in long-span bridge design | p. 141 |
| Modern corrosion protection for stay cables, tendons and ground anchors for strait crossings structures | p. 149 |
| Construction and maintenance of two cable stayed bridges in adverse environment | p. 157 |
| Newly developed corrosion protective materials for maritime structure | p. 167 |
| Durability of concrete bridges in marine environment in Norway | p. 175 |
| Reduced chloride penetration into concrete by means of formwork | p. 181 |
| Structural monitoring of the Great Belt East Bridge | p. 189 |
| Instrumentation, documentation and verification, the IDV-System: A system for planning and using data from instrumentation to ensure factual experience to be understood and used for future projects | p. 197 |
| Selected results from full scale measurements on the Skarnsundet cable-stayed bridge | p. 201 |
| Instrumentation for monitoring the Skarnsundet cable-stayed bridge | p. 207 |
| The Salhus high level bridge | p. 217 |
| Deep foundation for offshore pier of Hakucho Oohashi Bridge | p. 223 |
| Construction of the East Bridge across the Great Belt in Denmark | p. 231 |
| The cable-stayed bridge over the Mississippi at Burlington, USA | p. 239 |
| The Saint Nazaire bridge | p. 247 |
| Pamban Bridge across Palk strait near Rameshwaram, India | p. 255 |
| Design and construction of an ultra long span bridge | p. 263 |
| Instability issues in extremely long-span cable-stayed bridges | p. 271 |
| A study of consistent methods for reliability updating based on measurements | p. 277 |
| Integrated design and analysis of cable supported bridges | p. 285 |
| Fendering for bridgepiers against collision from supertankers | p. 293 |
| Stress ribbon pedestrian bridge spanning 252 m | p. 299 |
| Supports for a strait crossings | p. 307 |
| Long bridge market survey | p. 313 |
| Storebaelt Eastern Railway Tunnel: Designers review of construction works | p. 319 |
| Great Belt Tunnel: Cross passage construction | p. 327 |
| Messina Strait crossing: Geotechnical and hydrogeological problems in the land-sea tunnel junction | p. 335 |
| FATIMA: The longest subsea road tunnel in the world in 1997 | p. 343 |
| An undersea-tunnel solution for linking Brier Island to mainland Nova Scotia | p. 347 |
| The Norwegian experience on strait crossings: A pattern and a source of knowledge | p. 353 |
| Hvalfjordur: A 'Norwegian' subsea road tunnel in young, basaltic rocks of Iceland | p. 359 |
| Proposed tunnel Hareid - Sula: Is a sub-sea tunnel down to 630 m bsl. feasible? | p. 365 |
| Detection of leakage sensitive joint systems using resistivity measurements in connection with sub-sea tunnels | p. 371 |
| Geomechanical express-monitoring during tunnelling | p. 379 |
| Linings for sub-sea tunnels in rock | p. 383 |
| Structural behaviour of reinforced concrete tunnel lining under earth pressure | p. 391 |
| Primary tunnel lining with PP FRS and rigid bolts | p. 397 |
| Longitudinal ventilation of road tunnels combined with air cleaning technology | p. 405 |
| Catalytic exhaust air cleaning in road tunnels | p. 411 |
| Norwegian road tunnels: Ventilation, pollution and pollution distribution | p. 417 |
| Integrated tunnel management and automatic response | p. 423 |
| Norwegian subsea road tunnels: Experience from 10 years of construction, operation and maintenance | p. 429 |
| Experiences from construction and maintenance of world's longest and deepest subsea road tunnel in Norway | p. 437 |
| Strait of Messina crossing by submerged floating tunnels: Socio-economic effects | p. 445 |
| Strait of Messina crossing by submerged floating tunnels: Cost/benefit analysis | p. 451 |
| Critical assumptions in Cost-Benefit Analyses (CBA): Norwegian experiences | p. 457 |
| Are planning procedures able to explain the financial difficulties of toll roads in Norway? | p. 465 |
| Immersed tunnel cost reduction | p. 473 |
| The Oresund Link: Interaction between environmental protection requirements and design | p. 479 |
| Strait of Messina crossing by submerged floating tunnels: Environmental issue of the Eni floating tunnels | p. 487 |
| Driver opinions of subsea tunnels | p. 493 |
| Occurrence of tunnel phobia in Norway | p. 499 |
| Analysis of the environmental impact of the construction of a submerged floating tunnel across the semi-closed bay | p. 509 |
| Major fixed links in and around Denmark: Their role and implications for accessibility and traffic | p. 519 |
| Crossing the Bering Strait to open up the northern treasure chest | p. 525 |
| The unique techniques employed for the Sydney Harbour Tunnel | p. 535 |
| The Salhus Bridge: Construction and installation | p. 543 |
| Design of bridges with submerged floating foundations | p. 547 |
| Messina Strait crossing: Safety analysis for submerged floating tunnels | p. 555 |
| Elastoplastic capacity control of a submerged tubular steel bridge subjected to ship collision impact | p. 563 |
| The marine operations for the installation of the submerged tunnels for the Messina Strait crossing | p. 569 |
| Study on structural characteristics of support systems for submerged floating tunnel | p. 579 |
| Earthquake-induced permanent deformations in the landfalls of submerged-floating tunnels in sand | p. 587 |
| Creation of the Northern Japan exchange axis by floating tunnels | p. 595 |
| The configuration and the characteristics of the submerged tunnels for the Messina Strait crossing | p. 599 |
| Parameter sensitivity of predicted extreme response for a submerged tubular bridge | p. 607 |
| Development of novel technologies for strait crossing based on submerged tunnels: An application to Hogsfjord | p. 615 |
| Design and construction of terminal joint in the Tama River and Kawasaki Fairway tunnels | p. 623 |
| Design and construction of flexible joints in the Tama River and Kawasaki Fairway tunnels | p. 629 |
| Numerical analysis of wave force and dynamic response to the submerged floating tunnels | p. 637 |
| Design of a submerged floating tunnel with a free span of 1750 m | p. 645 |
| Ardalsfjord crossing | p. 653 |
| Analytical study on dynamic response of submerged floating tunnels due to wave force | p. 659 |
| Experimental study on characteristics of submerged floating tunnels under regular waves | p. 667 |
| Response of submerged floating tunnels to vertically impinging seismic waves | p. 675 |
| Strait of Messina crossing by submerged floating tunnels: Underwater sound analysis in marine environment | p. 683 |
| Offshore soil investigation: Straits of Messina: Solutions to unique problems | p. 687 |
| Submerged structures supported on sand pumped underneath structure | p. 695 |
| Innovative methods of constructing concrete immersed tubes in the urban environment | p. 703 |
| Skills and experience in immersed and floating tunnels | p. 709 |
| Service and failure of the first concrete floating bridge | p. 715 |
| The new floating bridge for Lake Washington, USA | p. 721 |
| Design of the Salhus Floating Bridge (Nordhordland bridge) | p. 729 |
| Use of high strength steel in Norwegian floating bridges | p. 735 |
| Instrumentation for verification of design criteria for the Bergsoysund and Salhus floating bridges | p. 743 |
| Experimental research related to the behavior of an ocean-floor foundation pile which receives a cyclic pull-out force due to waves | p. 751 |
| Stability of submarine slope subject to repeated loadings | p. 759 |
| The potential for undersea road tunnels in Scotland | p. 769 |
| Future projects for highway construction across straits in Japan, and technical considerations | p. 777 |
| Conceptual design of Osaka Bay crossings | p. 785 |
| Design and construction of Trans-Tokyo Bay Highway | p. 793 |
| Planning a fixed link for the Fehmarn Belt by private enterprise | p. 801 |
| The Tysfjord crossing: A comparison between different alternatives | p. 811 |
| Sea bed drilling with light equipment | p. 817 |
| Stability of sloping seabed - Seismic damage analysis: Methodology and application | p. 821 |
| Ferry operation in More and Romsdal County, Norway | p. 833 |
| The Oslofjord at Horten-Moss: Ferry crossing, bridge or tunnel | p. 841 |
| High speed light craft, an alternative mode of strait crossings? | p. 847 |
| Conceptual research on 'Marine Express': An amphibious train | p. 853 |
| Ferry connections: Still an alternative? | p. 861 |
| Environment friendly ferries: Electrically driven in particular | p. 867 |
| The Mortavika Breakwater: A harbour exposed to severe weather | p. 877 |
| Author index | p. 885 |
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