French engineer.
Biographical Information
| Name: | Michel Virlogeux |
|---|---|
| Born on | 7 July 1946 in Vichy, Allier (03), Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe |
| Place(s) of activity: | |
| Education: | Studies at the Ecole polytechnique |
| 1970 - 1974 | Works in Tunisia on the construction of the road network |
| 1974 - 1994 | Enters SETRA, the government design office for public works; |
| 1994 | Becomes a consultant engineer |
| 13 July 1999 | First recipient of the Fritz Leonhardt Prize |
| 2000 | Member of the Académie des Technologies. |
Structures and Projects
Participation in the following structures & large-scale projects:
- Beaune Overpass No. 73 - Sétra
- Georges Guingouin Bridge
- Golden Horn Metro Bridge
- Pont sur la Marne de Neuilly-Plaisance
- Alain Foechterle-Erich Dilger Bridge
- Bubiyan Bridge
- Charente Bridge (South Arm)
- Gustave Flaubert Bridge
- Meylan Footbridge
- Pont du Languedoc
- Rion-Antirion Bridge
- Van Eyck Bridge
- Verrières Viaduct
- Antrenas Bridge - Sétra
- Avignon Viaducts
- Bourgogne Bridge
- Charente Bridge (North Arm)
- Kärkistensalmi Bridge
- Kerplouz Bridge
- La Flèche Bridge
- Millau Viaduct overall concept - Sétra
- Montigny-lès-Cormeilles Footbridge
- Morbihan Bridge
- Noisy-le-Grand Footbridge
- Normandy Bridge - Sétra
- Pont du Truc de la Fare - Sétra
- Pont sur le grand canal d'Alsace
- Re Island Bridge - Sétra
- Seyssel Bridge - Sétra
- Tarascon-Beaucaire Bridge
- Trellins Bridge
- Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge
Biography from Wikipedia
Dr. Michel Virlogeux FREng CorrFRSE (born 1946, La Flèche, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire) is a French structural engineer and bridge specialist.
Career
Virlogeux graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1967 and from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 1970. From 1970 to 1973 he served in Tunisia on road projects and at the same time gained his Engineering Doctorate from the Pierre et Marie Curie University (also known as "Paris 6"). In January 1974 he joined the Bridge Department of SETRA, the technical service of the French Highway Administration.
In 1980 he became Head of the Large Concrete Bridge Division, and in 1987 of the large Bridge Division, Steel and Concrete. During twenty years he designed more than 100 bridges, including the Normandy Bridge which held the world record for longest cable-stayed bridge for four years. In 1995 he left the French Administration and set up as independent consulting engineer; his major achievements include his participation in the construction of the 'Second Tagus Crossing', the Vasco da Gama Bridge in Lisbon, and the design of the Millau Viaduct in France. Several of his bridges have received architectural awards.
Since 1977 Dr Virlogeux has been a part-time professor of structural analysis at the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and at the "Centre des Hautes Études du Béton Armé et Précontraint" in Paris. He also has been very active in technical associations such as the French Association of Civil Engineering (AFGC), 1974–1995; the Fédération Internationale de Précontrainte (FIP) (President 1996); the Fédération Internationale du Béton (FIB); first President in 1998 after the merger with the Comité Européen du Béton (CEB).
Awards
He has received many other international awards, which include the 'Award of Excellence of the Engineering News Record' (1995), the 'Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers' (1979), the Gold Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers (2005) the 'Gustave Magnel Medal' (1999) and the 'Fritz Leonhardt Prize' (also the first year that it was awarded). He is a member of the French Academy of Technology.
He received the 2003 IABSE Award of Merit in Structural Engineering in recognition of "his major contributions leading to very significant progress in the field of civil engineering, in particular through the development of external prestressing, landmark cable-stayed bridges and composite structures". The Award Presentation took place during the Opening of the IABSE Symposium 'Structures for High-Speed Railway Transportation', Antwerp, Belgium on 27 August 2003. The presentation was presented by Dr. Manabu Ito, President of IABSE.
In 2010 he was invited to deliver the MacMillan Memorial Lecture to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland. He chose the subject "The Design of Long Span Bridges".
He was appointed an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012 and Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2013.
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Bibliography
- (1994): 3000 mètres: we can make it !. Presented at: International Conference IABSE-FIP: Ponts suspendus et à haubans = Cable-stayed and suspension bridges, Deauville, France, 12-15 October 1994, pp. 505.
- (1994): L'arc métallique tubulaire au-dessus de l'autoroute A75 à l'échangeur d'Antrenas (Lozère). In: Travaux, n. 700 (July - August 1994), pp. 27-37.
- (1997): The Antrenas Tubular Arch Bridge, France. In: Structural Engineering International, v. 7, n. 2 (May 1997), pp. 107-109.
- (1990): Analyse du comportement non-linéaire des structures à précontrainte extérieure. Presented at: La Technique Française du Béton, XIe Congrès de la FIP Hambourg 1990, pp. 165-194.
- (1994): L'arc métallique tubulaire au-dessus de l'autoroute A75 à l'échangeur d'Antrenas. In: Bulletin ponts métalliques, n. 17 ( 1994), pp. 93-100.
Relevant Websites
Relevant Publications
- (1997): L'art de l'ingénieur. constructeur, entrepeneur, inventeur. Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France), pp. 539.
- Attribution du prix AIPC 1983 à Michel Virlogeux. In: Bulletin annuel AFPC ( 1983- 1984), pp. 31.
- (1986): La construction du Pont de Seyssel/Les ponts à haubans de moyenne portée. Paris (France).
- (2013): Eminent Structural Engineer: Michel Virlogeux – Structural Artist of Modern French Bridges. In: Structural Engineering International, v. 23, n. 3 (August 2013), pp. 350-353.
- (2000): Gustave Magnel Preis an Michel Virlogeux. In: Beton- und Stahlbetonbau, v. 95, n. 3 (March 2000), pp. 187-190.
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