Design of pedestrian bridge according to Eurocode 9

Abstract

Aluminum alloys, due to its numerous advantages, is widely used in the construction of various types of structures in civil engineering. Design of pedestrian bridge, entirely constructed of extruded elements made of aluminum alloy EN-AW 6082 T6 with cross sections designed to enable the use of innovative joints, is presented in this paper. The design and construction of special bolted joints is presented using the recommendations given in standard for design of aluminum structures CNR-DT 208/2011. Also, calculation of pedestrian bridge vibrations through different design methods is given here. Results of numerical analysis are compared with the recommendations from different currently available standards and literature referring to the comfort criteria of pedestrian bridge vibrations.