Let's show you some of our iconic projects
Timber Bridge, Anaklia, Georgia
The Anaklia wooden footbridge is one of the longest pedestrian bridges in Europe (505 meters). The bridge spans the River Enguri and connects the Georgian resort of Anaklia and the neighboring town of Ganmukhuri.
The river then flows into the Black Sea. For quality assurance purposes, all glued laminated timber elements in this project were pre-produced at the plant in Kleinheubach in advance.
The bridge design was realized based on triangular framework with stiffening diagonal glulam beams and belt joints, carried by the pylon. Structural analysis and timber materials assessment were carried out by Enson team with our in-house Summit Tool, which is further verified by software Midas.
The total length of the bridge construction is 504 meters. The resulting beams have an impressive length of 48 meters. The maximum free spans of the bridge are 84 meters.
Rotary Machinery Gear Assessment, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Enson has constantly supported ship, and oil & gas machinery manufacturer to assess and verify the various gear parts in a new rotary engineer products.
Despite of the complexity of the gears and the in-between interactions of the machineries, Enson managed to deliver the comprehensive structural and materials assessments through in-house software and calculation tool.
Enson's Ring tool successfully modelled and detected the potential stress concentration and metal fatigue points by covering the machinery behaviours under different scenarios.
Environmental factors, like humidity and thermal effects, have been carefully considered during the modelling and analysis process.
Enson has successfully delivered detailed assessment results with valuable technical advisory to improve the current machinery design.
Sea lion Arena, Rapperswill, Switzerland
The folded timber tower structure is being detailed designed and analysed based on our in-house Summit tool. It is the very challenging and good example to test the functionality of Summit's FEA cability for timber materials.
The original sea lion arena in Children's Zoo in Rapperswill is now remodified with iconic timber tower. The new structures are held together by timber compression rings at heights of 36 and 59 ft and a concrete ring at the bottom. The compression rings give the roof structure a high degree of stability. Under the roof is the circus arena with a diameter of 104 ft, with a free span.
The structure is rotationally symmetrical and consists of twelve equal and twelve mirrored timber elements, each curved twice. Two of each element make a pair that forms one of the twelve V-shaped roof elements. They rest on the concrete tension ring at the low points of the collar roof. The "hat" forms the upper end of the roof structure.
The ribs and transverse ribs are made of glued-laminated timber. On top of this lies a double diagonal formwork made of local spruce, which is 0.94 inches thick and bent and nailed manually. The roof elements, including the roof sheathing and shingles, were prefabricated from galvanized sheet metal at the factory. As a result, they weighed up to 4.41 tons; the "hat" itself weighed almost 22.05 tons.