GFRP Lleida Pedestrian Bridge explained

Bridge Name:FRP Lleida Pedestrian Bridge
Carries:Pedestrians
Crosses:High-Speed Rail
Owner:ADIF
Locale:Lleida, Spain
Coordinates:41.6211°N 0.6082°W
Maint:Lleida Municipalily
Designer:Pedelta Structural Engineers
Engineering:Juan Sobrino and Javier Jordan
Material:GFRP
Mainspan:38 m
Length:38 m
Width:3 m
Opened:2001

The FRP Pedestrian Bridge or in Lleida, Spain is the longest arch bridge made out of standard GFRP pultruded profiles.

The bridge spanning the Madrid-Barcelona high-speed rail link won the international “Footbridge Award 2005” in the category “Technology” for medium span (30m-75m) bridges.

Description

The structure is a tied-arch long and rises .[1] The deck is wide. The bridge is entirely made out of GFRP pultruded profiles. The arch configuration was chosen so as to minimize serviceability problems due to the low modulus of elasticity of GFRP profiles. The choice of GFRP was influenced by the fact that the material is an electrical insulator and eliminates magnetic interference with the electrified railway.[2]

The glass fibre reinforced plastic beams and panels used in the footbridge were manufactured in Denmark and assembled in Spain. The total cost of the structure was approximately $0.32million ($2350 per m2).

It was successfully installed in October 2001. The bridge was fabricated in only three months and erected by crane in just three hours.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lleida Footbridge. Structurae. 1 August 2015.
  2. Web site: Fibre-reinforced polymer composite bridges in Europe. Advanced Composites Manufacturing Centre. 1 August 2015. 9 July 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150709052436/https://www.fose1.plymouth.ac.uk/sme/composites/bridges.htm#lleida. dead.