Fabrizio de Miranda (30 October 1926 – 21 January 2015) was an Italian bridges and structural engineer and university professor.

Career

He graduated with a degree in

civil engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewa ...

in 1950 from the

University of Naples The University of Naples Federico II ( it, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) is a public university in Naples, Italy. Founded in 1224, it is the oldest public non-sectarian university in the world, and is now organized into 26 depar ...

. Beginning in 1955 he introduced in Italy steel-concrete composite structures, mainly in the field of

bridge A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually somethi ...

s. He planned the first motorway viaducts with steel structure (Coretta, Macinaie, Poggio Palina) on the

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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 The Polytechnic University of Milan () is the largest technical university in Italy, with about 42,000 students. The university offers undergraduate, graduate and higher education courses in engineering, architecture and design. Founded in 18 ...

. He successfully participated in numerous National and International Design Competitions of bridges including the first prize ex aequo to the International Competition for the Messina Bridge as member of th
Lambertini Group
(1969). He was among the Founders and then President (in 1970–1973) of the Italian College of the Steel Structures Technicians (CTA). In 1968, he founded a Consulting Engineering Firm specializing in the design of Bridges and

Structures A structure is an arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized. Material structures include man-made objects such as buildings and machines and natural objects such as ...

. During more than fifty years of professional activity, he designed hundreds of structures and bridges. Notable projects include the elevated highways in

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(1963–1965), in Fiorenza-

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(1961) and in San Lorenzo-

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(1969–1976), the viaducts and the Indiano Bridge across the

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river near

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(1972–1978), all in

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; the Zarate-Brazo Largo Bridges in

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(1969–1976), and the

Rande Bridge The Rande Bridge ( gl, Ponte de Rande, es, Puente de Rande) is a cable-stayed bridge 9 kilometres from the city of Vigo and 18 kilometres from the city of Pontevedra, in the Province of Pontevedra, Spain. It spans Vigo bay across the Rande Strait, ...

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(1973–1977). He died in Milan on 21 January 2015.Comune di Milano (It), Registro dello Stato Civile dell'anno 2015, atto n. 428 parte 2 serie B reg.04

Publications in English

* De Miranda F., 1964, ''Hollow steel sections in the

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-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. . * 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.

Bibliography in Italian

* Renato Airoldi, ''Il concorso per il nuovo ponte sull'Adda a Paderno'', in ''Casabella'', n° 469, 1981, pp. 17–25 * Doniselli I., ''Fabrizio De Miranda: ponti e strutture'', in ''Costruzioni Metalliche'', n° 5, 1994 * Gigliola Meneghini, ''Fabrizio De Miranda nella storia dei ponti in acciaio'', tesi di laurea, relatore Enzo Siviero, correlatore Stefania Casucci. – 1999. – 2 v. : ill. ; 30 cm; Istituto universitario di architettura di Venezia. Biblioteca Centrale IUAV TESI 1999 131-32. * Studio De Miranda Associati, ''Fabrizio de Miranda, raccolta delle pubblicazioni dal 1951 al 2004'', Milano, 2004. * L. Andreini, ''Ponte all'Indiano a Firenze'', in ''Rassegna di Architettura e Urbanistica'', n. 117,pp. 127–134, Università degli Studi "La Sapienza", Roma 2005. * Centro Studi del Consiglio Nazionale degli Ingegneri, (a cura di), ''Fabrizio de Miranda'', in ''L'ingegneria dei ponti del Novecento'', Catalogo della Mostra itinerante del 2006, pp. 42–43, Gangemi Editore, Roma 2006. * De Nardi Diego, ''Fabrizio De Miranda, Angelo Villa, Lodovico Tramontin. Il padiglione centrale della fiera di Pordenone'', Ed. Il Poligrafo (collana Territori dell'architettura. Opere), 2006, . * Marcello Zordan, ''Il contributo di Fabrizio de Miranda alla costruzione metallica del secondo novecento in Italia'', in ''Rassegna di Architettura e Urbanistica'' n. 121/122, pp. 149–158, Università degli studi "La Sapienza", Roma 2007. * Gianluca Capurso e Patrizia Fermetti (a cura di), ''Fabrizio de Miranda'', in "Rassegna di Architettura e Urbanistica", n. 121/122, p. 165, Università degli Studi "La Sapienza", Roma 2007.

References

External links

Biography of Fabrizio de Miranda from the Studio de Miranda Associati website

Studio De Miranda Associati website

Structurae database
{{DEFAULTSORT:De Miranda Bridge engineers Italian civil engineers Structural engineers 1926 births 2015 deaths University of Naples Federico II alumni Academic staff of the Polytechnic University of Milan