Jacques Combault

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Jacques Combault (* 1943 ) is a French civil engineer and bridge builder.

Combault studied civil engineering at the École centrale de Lyon with a diploma in 1967 and then worked for the construction company Campenon Bernard until 1993 , where he worked with well-known bridge builders such as Jean Muller and Jacques Mathivat , from 1980 headed the bridge construction department and then the entire design department. He was then chief designer and technical and scientific director at GTM (both GTM International and Dumez-GTM, now all part of Vinci ) for twenty years and then technical director of the Finley Engineering Group in Florida.

He taught at the Center des hautes études de la construction, at the École nationale des travaux publics, the École supérieure des travaux publics and at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées , where he is a professor.

He created innovations in precast concrete and composite bridges, in computer design. He was instrumental in the construction and design of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge , the Brotonne Bridge (with Jean Muller ), the Viaduc de Maupré , the Confederation Bridge (at GTM), the Second Severn Bridge (at GTM), the Rio-Andirrio Bridge and involved in the Sutong Bridge .

In 2014 he received the Albert Caquot Prize . From 2007 to 2010 he was President of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) and thereafter its honorary member. From 1993 to 2001 he was chairman of their working committee 3 on concrete structures. In 2009 he became a Knight of the Legion of Honor and in 2004 he received the Medal of Merit of the fib .

Fonts

  • The Rion-Antirion bridge - when a dream becomes reality, Frontiers of Architecture and Civil Engineering in China, Volume 5, 2011, pp. 415-426, abstract and biography by Combault
  • with JP Teyssandier, P. Morand: The Rion-Antirion Bridge Design and Construction. In: Proceedings of the 12th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. Auckland, New Zealand, 2000

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SURNAME Combault, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 1943