Bridges built by riccardo morandi
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Morandi’s Polcevera Viaduct
The Polcevera Viaduct, over a kilometre long and built between 1963 and 1967, carried the A10 motorway at a height of approximately 40 m over the Polcevera River, the Turin-Genoa railway line, two marshalling yards and an industrial area. Soon after its inauguration (see picture gallery) the three prominent 90 m high pylons supporting the approximately 220 m long main spans made the viaduct a landmark of Genoa and one of Riccardo Morandi’s most famous bridges.
The largest European viaduct at the time (see video) was innovative in several respects, even though Morandi adopted much from his bridge over Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, completed in 1962. For example, the main spans of both viaducts are designed as multi-span cable-stayed bridges, the pylons are arranged similarly, and the standard spans are composed of prefabricated elements. However, for the Polcevera viaduct, Morandi used prestressed concrete tendons as stay cables for the first time to increase stiffness, and the main spans were cantilevered using temporary tendons, which would be challenging even today considering the large spans.
Due to the high degree of prefabrication and
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Riccardo Morandi (1 September 1902 - 25 December 1989) was an Italian civil engineer best known for his interesting use of reinforced concrete. Amongst his best known works were the General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge, an 8 km crossing of Lake Maracaibo incorporating seven cable-stayed bridge spans with unusual piers, and the Subterranean Automobile Showroom in Turin.
Following graduation in 1927, Morandi gained experience in Calabria working with reinforced concrete in earthquake damaged areas. On his return to Rome to open his own office, he continued with his technical exploration of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures and embarked on the design of a series of novel cinema structures and bridges. His numerous later works include his work on the Fiumicino Airport, Rome, in 1970 and a bridge in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1972. Morandi was also appointed professor in bridge design both at the University of Florence and the University of Rome.
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Riccardo Morandi
Italian lay engineer
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