Luigi Vianello

Luigi Vianello (born January 29, 1862 in Treviso , † July 16, 1907 in Berlin ) was an Italian civil engineer.

Vianello was the son of a respected notary in Treviso and studied mathematics for two years in Padua and then engineering at the Turin Polytechnic. From 1885 to 1892 he worked as an engineer in northern Italy (Venice, Treviso, Milan) in machine and locomotive factories and on the railroad. He then worked in the Georg Egestorff locomotive factory in Hanover-Linden and from 1895 at the Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen-Sterkrade in bridge construction, where he worked with Reinhold Krohn . From 1897 to 1902 he worked for Siemens & Halske in Berlin and was responsible for many sophisticated steel structures on the Berlin elevated railway, for example at the Gleisdreieck. From 1902 he was with the Continental Society for Electrical Enterprises , which from 1898 to 1901 under Richard Petersen (who became a personal friend of Vianello) built and then operated the Wuppertal suspension railway . Vianello was responsible for the offers and planning of a similar suspension railway for Berlin, which was not implemented. He committed suicide when his eyesight and mobility deteriorated.

His monograph on iron construction from 1905 was a standard work and was the first German-language monograph in this field ( Karl-Eugen Kurrer ). Among other things, in 1898 he developed a graphic method for determining the critical buckling load of steel girders.

Fonts

• The continuous beam with triangular or trapezoidal load, Journal of the Association of German Engineers, Volume 37, 1893, No. 13, pp. 361–364.
• The knee lever, magazine of the Association of German Engineers, Volume 39, No. 9, 1895, pp. 253-257.
• The double console, magazine of the Association of German Engineers, Volume 41, No. 45, 1897, pp. 1275–1278.
• Graphical investigation of the buckling strength of straight bars, Journal of the Association of German Engineers, Volume 42, No. 52, 1898, pp. 1436–1443.
• The construction of the bending line of straight bars and their application in statics, Journal of the Association of German Engineers, Volume 47, No. 3, 1903, pp. 92-97.
• The continuous support on elastically lowerable supports, Journal of the Association of German Engineers, Volume 48, No. 4, 1904, pp. 128–132, No. 5, pp. 161–166.
• The iron building, Munich, R. Oldenbourg 1905

literature

• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 551f and p. 1072f (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .
• CR Petersen: Luigi Vianello, magazine of the Association of German Engineers, Volume 51, No. 51, 1907, pp. 2033-2034.