Soil-steel composite bridges are for many reasons very favorable bridges to build. Up to a certain span length they are economical, practical to transport and simple and quick to build. Especially in remote places, with unfavorable sloping terrain, this can be of great interest when the transport of material can be difficult and costly. The swedish manual for design of soil steel composite bridges was presented by Lars Pettersson and Håkan Sundquist in the year 2000. It is today used in Sweden and other neighboring countries as the main manual for the design of soil-steel composite bridges. The design manual is however only valid for longitudinal slopes up to 10%, which is low in comparison to natural sloping hillsides. The purpose of this ...