Design, fabrication and erection of the pedestrian bridge in the road-park of Ikei-Tairagawa in Okinawa

Okinawa is known it has severe environment that leads corrosion of steel fabricated products. How to cope with such corrosion or damage from salty breezes is one of important tasks. Use of FRP materials that are durable against such damages has been studied and was recently put into a practical use for the pedestrian bridge. There is a few structural example in civil engineering, and no design criteria is available, and design, fabrication and erection of an FRP pedestrian bridge conducted in Okinawa is described together with study items.