Fabrizio de Miranda

Infobox Engineer


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name = Fabrizio de Miranda
nationality = Italy
birth_date =birth date|1926|10|30|mf=y
birth_place = Naples, Italy
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education = University of Naples
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discipline = Structural engineer
institutions = Professor at Politecnico di Milano from 1965 until 1996 and member of Italian College of the Technicians of the steel (CTA) (President from 1970 until 1973).
practice_name = Studio De Miranda Associati - Milan (Italy)
significant_projects = Zarate-Brazo Largo Bridge - Indiano Bridge - Rande Bridge
significant_design = Strait of Messina Cable stayed bridge - ex aequo first prize at international design competition (1969)
significant_awards = 1978 European awards ECCS-CECM-EKS for the Indiano Bridge (Italy) - 1979 European awards ECCS-CECM-EKS for Rande Bridge (Spain)

Career

Fabrizio de Miranda (Naples, October 30 th 1926) it is an Italian bridges and structural engineer, and university professor. 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 Sole 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 Group Lambertini (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 (1963-1965), in Fiorenza-Milan (1961) and in San Lorenzo-Rome (1969-1976) , the viaducts and the Indiano Bridge across the Arno river near Florence (1972-1978), all in Italy; the Zarate-Brazo Largo Bridges in Argentina (1969-1976), and the Rande Bridge in Spain (1973-1977).

Publications in English

* De Miranda F., 1964, "Hollow steel sections in the RAI-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 Aestetics 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, ISBN 8871155111.
* 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, Univeristà degli Studi "La Sapienza", Roma 2007.

External links

* [http://www.demiranda.it/partners/partners_1.htm biography of Fabrizio de Miranda from the Studio de Miranda Associati website ]
* [http://www.demiranda.it Studio De Miranda Associati website]
* [http://en.structurae.de/persons/data/index.cfm?id=d000427 Structurae database]