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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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    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...
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    Gladesville Bridge was designed by Anthony Gee, G. Maunsell & Partners and Eugène Freyssinet and built from 1959 to 1964 by Reed & Mallik (Engineers, England)...
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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...
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    200 jobs. Station F occupies a building designed by French engineer Eugène Freyssinet. First opened in 1929, the former rail depot has been extensively...
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    been in wide use for decades. One of the early concrete engineers Eugène Freyssinet improved concrete pre-stressing methods, and it is claimed that he...
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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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  • emergence of two new technologies: pre-stressed concrete developed by Eugène Freyssinet in 1928 and high-performance concrete in the 1980s. The combination...
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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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    on 27 December 2011. "Bouygues Construction Challenger 1, avenue Eugène Freyssinet Guyancourt 78061 St-Quentin-en-Yvelines France" "Bouygues". Retrieved...
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    designed and built in 1921–1922 by French structural and civil engineer Eugène Freyssinet, the major pioneer of prestressed concrete, and destroyed in World...
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    this 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...
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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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    Ernst Eugène Freyssinet (1923), "Le pont de Candelier (The bridge of Candelier)", Ann Ponts Chaussées (in French), vol. 1, pp. 165f Eugène Freyssinet (1954)...
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    on 27 December 2011. "Bouygues Construction Challenger 1, avenue Eugène Freyssinet Guyancourt 78061 St-Quentin-en-Yvelines France" "France beats favourites...
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    of 14 precast concrete hollow box-units 7 ft 3in long. Freyssinet (named after Eugène Freyssinet) multi-strand prestressing cables were threaded through...
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    across the river Marne in France, built according to the design by Eugène Freyssinet and commenced in 1940, but due to the war, completed only in 1946...
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    Front in 1917 Léon Eyrolles (1861–1945), entrepreneur and politician Eugène Freyssinet (1879–1962), structural and civil engineer, major pioneer of prestressed...
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    bridge Concrete Concrete slab Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG (Dywidag) Eugène Freyssinet Freyssinet Test Arch Glossary of prestressed concrete terms Hollow-core...
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  • of reinforced concrete by the Limousin company to the designs of Eugène Freyssinet. An extension was built in 1930, also by Limousin. Foundry work (boilers...
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  • hangars were built between 1923 and 1926. Planned by the engineer Eugene Freyssinet, the 300 metre-long buildings were an important innovation according...
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  • 1879) June 8 – Eugène Freyssinet, French civil engineer (b. 1879) June 12 – John Ireland, English composer (b. 1879) June 13 – Sir Eugene Goossens, English...
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  • engineer Ralph Freeman (1911–1998) English bridge and highways engineer Eugène Freyssinet French structural engineer Buckminster Fuller Angus Fulton British...
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    said 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...
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  • Fresnel (1788–1827) X1804 Physicist, major contributor to wave optics Eugène Freyssinet (1879–1962) X1899 Developed the prestressed concrete Camille Jordan...
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    Paul Harteck, 1961 Sir Howard Walter Florey, 1960 Lise Meitner, 1960 Eugène Freyssinet, 1960 Richard Joseph Neutra, 1959 Reinhard Straumann, 1959 Carl Wagner...
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    pioneered by Eugène Freyssinet with a patent in 1928, gave a novel approach in overcoming the weakness of concrete structures in tension. Freyssinet constructed...
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  • Ellet, Jr., American civil engineer Augustin-Jean Fresnel, physicist Eugène Freyssinet, structural and civil engineer, pioneer of prestressed concrete Jean...
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    largest single span concrete arch in the world. It was designed by Eugène Freyssinet, one of the pioneers in using reinforced concrete.[citation needed]...
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    responsible for the Institute's production of the anti-diphtheria serum. Eugène Freyssinet, structural and civil engineer, precursor of prestressed concrete...
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