Fabrizio de Miranda
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Structural engineer
Structural engineers analyze, design, plan, and research structural components and structural systems to achieve design goals and ensure the safety and comfort of users or occupants...
, and university professor.
Career
He graduated with a degree in civil engineering in 1950 from the University of Naples. Since 1955 he introduced in Italy the steel-concrete composite structures, mainly in the field of bridges. He has planned the first motorway viaducts with steel structure (Coretta, Macinaie, Poggio Palina) on the Autostrada del SoleAutostrada A1 (Italy)
The Autostrada A1, or Autostrada del Sole , is an Italian motorway which connects Milan with Naples via Bologna, Florence and Rome. At 754 km, it is the longest Italian autostrada and is considered the “spinal cord” of the country’s road network...
in Italy (1959). In 1959, he became Managing Director of the largest Italian steelwork company, "Costruzioni Metalliche Finsider S.p.A." in Milan, which was under his management until 1967. From 1965 until 1996 he was professor of "Tecnica delle costruzioni" (structural engineering) at Politecnico di Milano. He successfully participated in numerous National and International Design Competitions of bridges among which the first prize ex aequo to the International Competition for the Messina Bridge as member of the Lambertini Group (1969). And he was among the Founders and then President in the period (1970–1973) of the Italian College of the Steel Structures Technicians (CTA). He founded in 1968 a Consulting Engineering Firm specializing in the design of Bridges and Structures. During more than fifty years of professional activity, he has designed hundreds of structures and bridges, many of which were the state of the art at the time they were built. On his projects different remarkable works have been realized what the elevated highways in Genoa
Genoa
Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....
(1963–1965), in Fiorenza-Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
(1961) and in San Lorenzo-Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
(1969–1976), the viaducts and the Indiano Bridge
Indiano Bridge
Indiano Bridge is the first earth-anchored cable-stayed bridge in the world. It is a bridge across the Arno River in Florence .The bridge was built between 1972 and 1978 by Società C.M.F...
across the Arno
Arno
The Arno is a river in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is the most important river of central Italy after the Tiber.- Source and route :The river originates on Mount Falterona in the Casentino area of the Apennines, and initially takes a southward curve...
river near Florence
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
(1972–1978), all in Italy
Italy
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; the Zarate-Brazo Largo Bridge
Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridge
The Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridges are two cable-stayed road and railway bridges in Argentina, crossing the Paraná River between the cities of Zárate, Buenos Aires Province, and Brazo Largo, Entre Ríos Province....
s in Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
(1969–1976), and the Rande Bridge
Rande Bridge
The Rande Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge in Vigo, Spain. It spans Vigo Ria across the Rande Strait, linking Vigo to the Morrazo peninsula.It was designed by Italian engineer Fabrizio de Miranda, the Spaniard Florencio del Pozo and Alfredo Passaro. The bridge was built in 1978. It forms part of...
in Spain
Spain
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(1973–1977).
Publications in English
- De Miranda F., 1964, Hollow steel sections in the RAIRAIRAI — Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development. Rai is the biggest television company in Italy...
-TV Centre-Turin, n. 12/1964 "Proceedings CIDECT 1964", London 1964. - De Miranda F., 1966, The role of steelwork in Italian Multi-Storey Buildings – Proceedings B.C.S.A. Dec. 1966.
- De Miranda F., 1968, New concepts for elevated highways, Proceedings B.C.S.A. – London. 24–26 June 1968.
- De Miranda F. e Mele M., 1973, Some basic design principles for steel box girder bridges, In London 13-14 febbraio 1973. Proceedings Institution Civil Engineers.
- De Miranda F., et al., 1979, Basic problems in long span cable stayed bridges, – Rep. n. 25 – Department of Structures – University of Calabria – Arcavacata (CS), ill., (224 p.) 1979.
- Autori vari & De Miranda F., 1983, A contribution to the theory of long span cable-stayed bridges, 11e Congres Association Internationale des Ponts ed Charpentes.
- De Miranda F., 1988, Design – Long Span Bridges, International Symposium on steel bridges. London, 24-25 marzo 1988. In "Costruzioni Metalliche" n. 4/1988.
- De Miranda F., 1991, Some basic problems in the design of long span cable stayed bridges, in Problemi avanzati nella costruzione dei ponti, a cura di G. Creazza e M. Mele, Collana di Ingegneria Strutturale n.7, pp. 91–120, Ed. CISM (International Centre for Mechanical Sciences), Udine 1991. ISBN 88-85137-06-7.
- De Miranda F., 1991, The three Mentalities of Successful Bridge Design, in Bridge Aesthetics around the world, Ed. Transportation Research Board – National Research Council, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 1991.