Rosensteinsteg Ⅱ-A cable footbridge with deck elements of CFRP-reinforced concrete

摘要

Rosensteinsteg Ⅱ is a lightweight cable girder footbridgewith a span of 29 m in the city of Stuttgart, Germany(Figure 1). Together with Rosensteinsteg Ⅰ, a suspensionbridge with a total length of 78 m, it bridges the tram lineU14 and the federal road B14 and connects Rosensteinparkwith the eastern city district and the mineral bathLeuze. The bridge family was built on the occasion of thefederal garden exhibition in 1977 and was designed by agroup of renowned German engineers, involving J?rgSchlaich, Rudolf Bergermann and Günther Mayr. It canbe seen as a typical example of the Stuttgart school oflightweight design.