Construction information

Designed by: GP "Mostogradnja"
Author and Main Designer: Branimir Tripalo, BSc (civil eng.)
Main Designer of individual stages: Vukan Njagulj, BSc (civil eng.) 
Employer: Municipality of the town of Osijek
Main Contractor: GP "Mostogradnja"
Main Sub-contractors: "FELTEN & GULLIEAUME AG" - Austria
Purpose of the Project: Pedestrian Bridge
Years of Construction: 1979 - 1980
  

Project information

 
THE SUSPENSION footbridge (210 m span) overbridges the Drava and connects the city centre with the recreational zone. The single span bride, without intercolumns, enables free navigation. The bridge tread, reinforced concrete plate 6 m wide is suspended on the parabolic carrying steel-rope. From the static point of view, the supporting system for the bridge is a catenary, stiffened by prestressed tightening ropes blaced on the bottom side of the plate bridge tread. This system resulted in an exceptionally rational and attractive footbridge-which meets its purpose completely as well as high aesthetic criteria. Characteristics:
- total built surface 1,440 m²,
- maximum span 210 m
- road width 5 m,
- height of steel towers 30 m, 
- high aerodynamic stability.
   

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