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    Eugène Freyssinet (French: [øʒɛn fʁɛsinɛ]) (13 July 1879 – 8 June 1962) was a French structural and civil engineer. He was the major pioneer of prestressed...
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    The Freyssinet Test Arch (in French Arche d'essai Freyssinet) is a prestressed concrete arch built in 1909 in Moulins, Allier by Eugène Freyssinet1. Its...
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    Vinci (corporately styled VINCI) is a French concessions and construction company founded in 1899 as Société Générale d'Entreprises. Its head office is...
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    advertised as a "Pleasure Tower Half Mile High" was designed by Eugène Freyssinet, and was to be a 701-metre (2,300 feet) tall concrete tower with a light...
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    forces which will exist when in service.: 3–5  It was patented by Eugène Freyssinet in 1928. This compression is produced by the tensioning of high-strength...
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    plate Toroidal expansion joint Freyssinet: Bearing Replacement Archived 2012-04-26 at the Wayback Machine, Freyssinet Ltd. (retrieved 22 December 2011)...
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    Situated in a former rail freight depot previously known as la Halle Freyssinet [fr] (thereof the "F" in Station F), the 34,000 m2 (370,000 sq ft) facility...
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    Prestressed concrete and post-tensioned concrete were pioneered by Eugène Freyssinet, a French structural and civil engineer. Concrete components or structures...
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    Bridge was designed by Anthony Gee, G. Maunsell & Partners and Eugène Freyssinet and built from 1959 to 1964 by Reed & Mallik (Engineers, England) and...
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    000 long tons; 21,000 short tons) of steel and 184 cables made by fr:Freyssinet were used. From above From the N1029 (A29 Autoroute) Bridge in 2006 List...
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    M62 junction 11. Also west of the park is Nuvia UK (part of Soletanche Freyssinet). Betfred (having the largest turnover in the region—£13.3bn) is at the...
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    and built in 1921–1922 by French structural and civil engineer Eugène Freyssinet, the major pioneer of prestressed concrete, and destroyed in World War II...
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    Bibcode:2002Caten..49...25M. doi:10.1016/S0341-8162(02)00015-2. Girard, Jean-Pierre; Freyssinet, Philippe; Chazot, Gilles (1 February 2000). "Unraveling climatic changes...
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  • investigation found that these girders manufactured from a partnership of Freyssinet and Tierra Armada did not meet standard, and replaced by those from Prestressed...
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    27 December 2011. "Bouygues Construction Challenger 1, avenue Eugène Freyssinet Guyancourt 78061 St-Quentin-en-Yvelines France" "Bouygues". Retrieved...
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  • placed on hammerheads. The rehabilitation of the bridge was carried out by Freyssinet Prestressed Concrete Company Ltd (FPCC) by strengthening the piers and...
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    arches. The Freyssinet company was awarded the contract to reconstruct the Mitrovica Bridge. The contract's terms stipulated that Freyssinet hire a multi-ethnic...
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    only other business that had a notable role on the building site was Freyssinet, a subsidiary of the Vinci Group specialising in prestressing. It installed...
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    Persons related: Félix Candela Dyckerhoff & Widmann Wilhelm Flügge Eugène Freyssinet Heinz Isler Pier Luigi Nervi Plate Frei Otto Ernest Edwin Sechler Vladimir...
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    27 December 2011. "Bouygues Construction Challenger 1, avenue Eugène Freyssinet Guyancourt 78061 St-Quentin-en-Yvelines France" "France beats favourites...
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  • November 20 – A bridge still under construction, called Elevado Engenheiro Freyssinet, falls over the Paulo de Frontin Avenue, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 48...
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    cross section and of the hinge heads, which have a strong reinforcement. Freyssinet invented the concrete hinges. Leonhardt introduced guidelines in the 1960s...
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  • three first-class matches. Strachan is currently employed by Soletanche Freyssinet, where he is the director of mergers and acquisitions. Oxford UCCE differed...
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    Antoinette Feuerwerker (1912–2003), lawyer and resistance member Eugène Freyssinet (1879–1962), structural and civil engineer, major pioneer of prestressed...
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    of highest bridges in the world List of tallest bridges in the world "MOROCCO - OPENING OF THE MOHAMMED VI BRIDGE". Freyssinet. Retrieved 2016-09-03....
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    Crossing | the Forth Bridges". "Cable Stays: Second Severn Crossing" (PDF). Freyssinet. De Miranda F., et al., (1979), "Basic problems in long span cable stayed...
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    to be 186 m. The engineer who constructed the bridge was named Eugène Freyssinet, and the president of the committee managing the project was Albert Louppe...
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    it for practical use. The inventor of prestressed concrete is Eugene Freyssinet of France. Lin retired in 1976 to work full-time at T.Y. Lin International...
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    IStructE Gold Medal winners Henry Adams (1922) John Baker (1953) Eugène Freyssinet (1957) Hardy Cross (1958) Félix Candela (1960) William Glanville (1962)...
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    two huge airship hangars had been built there by the engineer Eugène Freyssinet from 1923 on.[citation needed] As a result of the Battle of France in...
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