Civil Engineering

(Lifting / Mobile Bridges and others …)

 

Douce Hydro is able to design and manufacture both standard and custom designed hydraulic cylinders. Douce Hydro cylinders are recognized by our civil engineering customers for their high quality, advanced technology and service lives exceeding 25 years.

 

Douce Hydro offers our advanced KERADOUCE® coating on the rods of our cylinders. With over 12 years of product life, this innovative protective coating has been tested extensively and continually improved. It has proven extremely effective in harsh environments, particularly where corrosion is a major concern. Douce Hydro brings customized advanced engineering solutions for our clients’ wide range of applications environments.

 

Lifting bridge in Germany

 

Rods in KERADOUCETM
coating

 

Counterbalance

weight:

800 Tons each

Lifting bridge in Germany

 

2 DA hydr. cylinders:

500 x 360; 10 600mm stroke
 4 DA hydr. cylinders:

460 x 280; 7 700mm stroke
 2 hydr. cylinders:

63 x 36; 320mm stroke
 4 hydr. cylinders:

100 x 70; 500mm stroke
 4 hydr. cylinders

100 x 70; 1 600mm stroke

Lifting bridge for a highway
(Scherzer type)

Lifting bridge for a highway (Scherzer type)

Bridge above the Tancarville canal (France)

Bridge of Frébuge for a highway (France)

 

56 DA tensioner

cylinders:

200 x 110; 1 000mm stroke

(mechanical locking

device)

Bridge Rion-Antirion in Greece (2003)

 

Cable-stayed bridge

16 DA hydr. cylinders:

140 x 110; 110 mm stroke
 8 DA hydr. cylinders:

330 x 140; 150 mm stroke
 16 DA hydr. cylinders:

140 x 80; 175 stroke
 8 DA hydr. cylinders:

140 x 110; 2 250 mm stroke

Bridge Rion-Antirion in Greece (2003)

 

The world's longest

cable-stayed bridge

with suspended deck

of 2.25 km

6 DA hydr. cylinders:

140 x 80; 1 100 mm stroke
 8 DA hydr. cylinders:

350 x 160; 1 300 mm stroke
 8 DA hydr. cylinders:

320 x 160; 900 stroke

Mobile bridge of Taragona (Spain)

Mobile bridge ( France)

 

2 hydr. cylinders:

250 x 200; 5 760 mm

stroke

Scardon bridge in Abbeville (France)

 

12 DA hydr

cylinders:

500 x 420; 2 250 mm

stroke

Mascara bridge (highway)

 

Damper cylinders for

earthquake prevention

 

8 SA damper cylinders:

400mm rod

300mm stroke

 

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