Draft:Mario de Miranda

Mario de Miranda (Milan, 1954) is an Italian engineer, specialized in bridges and large structures.

Graduated in civil engineering in Milan in 1979, he began his professional career in his father Fabrizio's studio in the field of metal constructions.

The field of activity was then extended to steel bridges and prestressed reinforced concrete structures and bridges.

His activity has covered almost all categories of bridges, both in terms of the material used, the type of construction and the type of traffic (pedestrian, road, railway). In fact, among his works there are bridges with an entirely metal girder (e.g. the Lavis bridge in Trento[1]), girder bridges in a composite steel-concrete system (e.g. the Slizza and Vallone viaducts on the Udine-Tarvisio motorway[2]), steel arch bridges with a lower bridge section (e.g. the Souk Ahras bridge in Algeria or the bridge over the San Bernardino stream in Verbania[3]), cable-stayed bridges with a steel deck (e.g. the pedestrian bridge over the Sea in Pescara[4], a cable-stayed bridge in the commercial port of Venice[5]), in a composite steel-concrete system (e.g. the bridge over the Higuamo river in the Dominican Republic[6]), in pre-stressed reinforced concrete with prefabricated segments (e.g. the bridge over the Guamá river in Brazil[7]), in pre-stressed reinforced concrete cast in situ (e.g. the Natal bridge in Brazil or the Ayrton Senna bridge in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil[8] or the cable-stayed bridge in Piedmont[9]).

The most significant infrastructure project, for which he was responsible for the construction and assembly of the decks, was the StoreBelt Bridge in Denmark, which consists of two access viaducts with spans of 194 m and a suspension bridge with a free span of 1624 m, which at the time of its construction represented the largest span ever built.[1] [2] [3]

In the construction sector he has designed important works such as the ATI hangars at Capodichino airport in Naples, the Lingotto heliport in Turin (architectural project by Renzo Piano) for which he received the European ECCS (European Convention of Constructional Steelwork) award in 1997 or the Pavilion for the Pordenone Fair[1].

From 2006 to 2022 he was Professor with a position of excellence in the Master's Degree in Architecture-Construction at the IUAV of Venice.

He has published over seventy works in national and international journals concerning completed works and in the field of construction history.

He has shared his professional experiences and research within several national and international structural engineering associations of which he is a member (AICAP, CTA, IABSE, etc.).

In the two-year period 2016-2018 he was President of the College of Steel Technicians [1]. He is President of the Technical Committee of PIARC Italia – (World Road Association) on Bridges and consultant of the Superior Council of Public Works [2] and member of the Working Group for the drafting of the Guidelines on the safety of existing bridges. [3]

In 2021 he received the Honorary Member Medal of the AICAP on the occasion of the ICD2020 (14-16 April 2021).

Works

Suspension bridge over the Storebaelt in Denmark, with a central span of 1624 m
Prestressed reinforced concrete cable-stayed bridge in Brazil over the Rio Sergipe in Aracajù, with a span of 200 m
Prestressed reinforced concrete cable-stayed bridge in Brazil over the Rio Potengi in Natal, with a central span of 212 m
Prestressed reinforced concrete cable-stayed bridge in Brazil over the Rio Oiapoque in Amapá, with a span of 240 m
Prestressed reinforced concrete cable-stayed bridge in Brazil over the Rio Guamà in Belem, with a central span of 320 m
Steel and reinforced concrete cable-stayed bridge in the Dominican Republic over the Rio Higuamo in San Pedro de Macoris, with a central span of 390 m and a length of 620 m
Steel girder bridge on the A22 in Lavis (TN)
Steel cable-stayed bridge in Pescara called “Il Ponte del Sea”;
Souk Ahras steel arch bridge in Algeria;
Curitiba steel cable-stayed bridge in Brazil;
Cable-stayed bridge over the Rio Juruá in Brazil;
Cable-stayed bridge over the Shatt el Arab near Basra in Iraq;
3.8 km bridge over the Storström in Denmark, currently under construction.

Scientific publications

A curved road bridge with a composite girder in Val di Fiemme with particular characteristics for environmental insertion, in Costruzioni Metalliche n. 4/1993. (Co-author Fabrizio de Miranda)
VOICE Steel Structure Bridges in Civil Engineering Manual Directed by Filippo Rossi and Franco Salvi, vol. 2, chap. VI, pp. P121-P186, Ed. Zanichelli/ESAC, Rome 2001. (Co-author Fabrizio de Miranda)
Construction Procedures, chap. V in Structural Engineering volume one, Design Basics, edited by Elio Giangreco, pp. 305–366, Ed. UTET, Turin 2002. (Co-author Fabrizio de Miranda)
Design Integration in Recent Bridge Construction, in Rassegna, n. 79 (2003), pp. 52-58.
Cable-stayed bridges: design aspects and durability issues, in Roads and Highways, v. 13, n. 75 (2009), page 101.
Steel structures in Italy from 1950 to 1970; competition, innovation and great challenges in FrancoAngeli, TERRITORIO Magazine, Issue 2013/67 pp. 72-77.
The Castagnetoli Suspension Bridge, in Strade e Autostrade, v. 21, n. 124 (2017), pp. 75-77. (Co-author Emanuele Maiorana)
The cable-stayed bridge: a modern, efficient and durable structural and architectural solution, in Lo Strutturista (2020)
The design of the new Storstrøm bridge: design philosophy, structural concepts, fundamental design and innovative construction methods. Presented at: IABSE Symposium: Challenges for existing and upcoming structures, Prague, Czech Republic, May 25-27, 2022, pp. 686-693. (Co-authors Luca Marinini, Rodrigo Affonso, Marta de Miranda)
Long-span bridges. In Innovative Bridge Design Handbook Construction, Rehabilitation and Maintenance, 2022, Second Edition. pp. 463-507. - Editor A. Pipinato, Elsevier-H ealth Sciences Division, ISBN 978-0-12-823550-8
Paths of Italian engineering in the twentieth century. In Italian engineering of the twentieth century. Schools and protagonists (pp. 42-62) edited by Marzia Marandola, Marko Pogacnik, Series: Quaderni della ricerca – IUAV, 2022, 332 pp., ISBN 9788857594705
Steel and composite bridges. In Innovative Bridge Design Handbook Construction, Rehabilitation and Maintenance (2022) Second Edition. pp. 327-352. - Editor A. Pipinato, Elsevier-Health Sciences Division, ISBN 978-0-12-823550-8
Large suspended structures: wider spans, less predictable difficulties, in L’Ingegnere Italiano _383_Ponti, (2023) pp, 43-48

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