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Splay saddle

Anchor bars

Wire-wrapped cable

Splayed cable wires
Strand shoes

Figure 12.6 Gravity anchor and rigid splay saddle.

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Figure 12.7 (a, b) Flexible splay saddle (Kanazaki Bridge, Japan).

built together into the entire anchor block. Figure 12.7 shows a flexible splay
saddle that is supported by a steel column, which provides less bending stiff-
ness in the longitudinal than in the transverse direction. Figure 12.8 shows a
flexible splay saddle built as a rigid body. The type of splay saddle has to be
considered into the design and analysis of a suspension bridge.