Stress ribbon bridges are very slender structures that are used in many different locations, from urban areas and public parks to open space of mountainous places. They are preferred for pedestrian or sometimes bicycle traffic. Their construction involves a number of operations that modify the structural system and therefore the structural analysis must take into account this circumstance. One of the main constraints of this typology is the value of the vertical and transversal accelerations produced by pedestrians walking along the bridge and because of that there are codes of practice that establish the maxima allowable values. In this paper, the design of a stress ribbon bridge in Northwest Spain over the A Coruña bay is presented. It is composed by two spans of about 150 m each, so the overall dimensions are similar to the longest bridges of this class. The pedestrian comfort showed the bridge performs very appropriately.
Hernández et al. (Wed,) studied this question.