In graduation thesis the project of designing a footbridge in Ribji trg is discussed. The project deals with design of a steel pedestrian bridge wich would replace current student footbridge over river Ljubljanica. The bridge is designed according to Eurocode standards. In this thesis
the whole project, from basic idea to the final-model of the bridge is captured, including the solving of problems associated with such a design. Main objective of the thesis was to build appropriate design model so that desired behaviour of the footbridge is achieved.
Some of the project's demands were not completely met, because I wanted to create personal idea of a footbridge and alongside gain as much knowledge about desinging structures as possible. Supporting structure and width of walking surface make bridge a bit wider than project's demands declare. Because of supporting structure it's also more eye caching than it's supposed to be. Once the computational model was build, the loads were determined. The static analysis and design of the structure were done, which proved the safty of the bridge in the ultimate limit state. Main barrier in designing the footbridge was the adequacy of it's natural frequency. Demands from Eurocode standards for it were not met, so thorough dynamic analysis should be executed. That analysis is not part of this graduation thesis.
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