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Nemetschek Structural User Contest 2013 - Category 2: Civil Structures
Category 2: Civil Structures
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Short description │
Barrier Free Pedestrian Connection
The City Mannheim lies on the junction of the river Neckar by the river Rhine and contains a lot of
traffic- and pedestrian bridges. After the reconstruction of the Friedrich-Ebert Bridge across the river
Neckar in 2007, the Mannheim City Government decided to improve the traffic situation and build a
barrier free connection from Neckar Bank Way to the bridge. The connection, implemented in 2011,
is about 70 m long and 2.5 m wide and it lies about 6.0% in grade. The structure consists of the solid
beam based on the slim steel columns with supporting walls at the entry and deep injection piles
foundation. The very bad soil conditions were responsible for the deep piles foundation by the old
bridge structure too. The new structure was built up as a 3D model in Scia Engineer, including the
supporting walls and foundation with deep injection piles. Calculation of the structure was processed
according to Theory IId Order. The required dynamic calculations due to Earthquake Zone I were
considered too. The building costs of the structure are about 600,000 euros.
Project information
Owner
Mannheim City
Architect
Mannheim City Planing Department
General Contractor
King Ingenieure Ludwigshafen, Germany
Engineering Office
Dipl. - Ing. S. Ryklin STATIK
Location
Mannheim, Germany
Construction Period
02/2011 to 11/2011
Contact
Sergej Ryklin
Address
Liselottestrasse 17,
D-69123 Heidelberg, Germany
Phone
+49 6221 830973
Email
Website
Sergej Ryklin - Born in 1963 in Moscow
1981-1985: Civil Engineering; “Bridges/Tunnels”; Since 1993: Structural designer and verifier at
“Römhild & Hecker” Consulting Engineers in Landau, Germany; Since 1997: Structural designer;
2008-2009: Master’s Study at the Institute for Membrane and Shell Technologies, Anhalt University of
Applied Sciences, Germany.
Range of Capacity:
Planning and optimisation of steel, aluminium, solid, composite, timber and
membrane structures; Project consultancy; Building physics calculations; Dynamics calculations,
Project verification.
Philosophy:
Flexibility in planning due to integral 3D design with the ability to find feasible and low-
cost solutions from the draft stage on.
Experience:
Residential and industrial buildings, parking spaces, pedestrian bridges, swimming pools,
silos, membranes…
References:
Daimler, John Deere, SAP, DB...
Dipl. - Ing. S. Ryklin STATIK
