Arthur Vierendeel

Arthur vierendeel ( born April 10, 1852 in Leuven ( Leuven Flemish, French Louvain ) in Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium, † November 8, 1940 in Ukkel ( Uccle French ) in Brussels) was a Belgian civil engineer. ( The occasional given birth in 1853 is likely to be wrong. ) Vierendeel is the inventor of Vierendeelträgers, the carrier without diagonals.

CV and work

He was born as Jules Arthur Meunier. Only at the second marriage of his mother, he was named vierendeel at the age of five years. In 1874 he received his diploma at the " Ecoles Spéciales de Génie Civil, des Arts et Manufactures and Mines " of the Catholic University in Leuven. From 1876 to 1885 he was a clerk in a steel plant, the "Ateliers de La Louviere ".

In 1877 he built the steel structure of the Cirque Royal (Royal Circus ) in Brussels. This was such a lighter, leaner and bolder steel frame that you initially distrusted its stability. Therefore, a whole regiment of soldiers had to test the resilience before the building was released. In 1885 he became chief engineer and technical director of the province of West Flanders. There he was responsible for the construction of a road network in the administration.

From 1889 to 1935 he taught as a professor or lecturer and successor of Louis Cousins ​​to the " Ecoles Spéciales " of the University in Leuven in the fields of material strength, structural design and architectural history. In 1889 he published a work on the Structural Design and 1896 he was awarded the Prix du Roi ( King's price ) for its steel constructions and his work " La construction architecturale en fonte de fer et en acier ".

In 1896 he developed the Vierendeel and received a patent for it. The first Vierendeel Bridge was the bridge over the River Scheldt in Avelgem ( according to other data in Kinzua ) in 1902. He had, however, fighting for his innovations; the experts (including Otto Mohr and Franz Cech ) initially responded contradictory.

Vierendeel made ​​also of importance in the exploration of the buckling of struts, wherein the load of steel under tension, and in the calculation of foundations. According to other data, he finished his career in 1927. His latest release, the latest edition of its building structures, appeared 1935.

Structures

  • Cirque Royal in Brussels (1877, demolished about 1947)
  • Steely tower of the church of Dadizeele (1890)
  • Vierendeel test bridge 31.5 m span in Tervuren ( 1898) for an international exhibition in Brussels
  • Reading room of the old Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris
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