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Zárazate-Brazo-Largo Bridge

Reiner Saul (born June 20, 1938 in Lünen ) is a German civil engineer and known as a bridge building expert (especially cable-stayed bridges ).

biography

Saul studied at the TH Hannover with a diploma in 1963 and from 1964 to 1968 he worked for the construction company Hein, Lehmann AG in Düsseldorf, which among other things built the Düsseldorf Rhine bridges. From 1968 to 2003 he was with Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner (LAP), from 1971 as a senior engineer, from 1992 as managing partner and most recently as managing director. From 2004 he worked as a consultant at LAP.

Since 1968 he has been working with Wolfhardt Andrä on the development of suspension cables made from parallel wire bundles.

He played a major role in the construction of around a dozen large cable-stayed bridges in South America, where he gained experience during a four-year stay in Argentina in the early 1970s ( Zárazate-Brazo-Largo Bridge ). These included the first large bridge with double composite, a difficult foundation of pylons with 80 m long piles in poor subsoil with the risk of scour and the development of protection systems for the piers against ship collision, and the design of the first large stay cable bridges for large railway loads.

Since 1995 he has been a test engineer and EBA expert. From 1994 he was a lecturer for steel bridge construction at the University of Stuttgart.

In 2003 he received an honorary doctorate from the TH Braunschweig .

In his free time he hikes and sings in the Stuttgart oratorio choir (bass).

Projects

The cable-stayed bridges are among his bridge projects:

He provided advice on installation of the Dunaújváros Danube Bridge, which opened in 2007 , a steel arch bridge with a span of 308 m, which was installed on the bank and then floated in

In the beginning he worked at LAP on:

Fonts (selection)

  • with Wolfhardt Andrä : experiments with bundles of parallel wires and strands for the north bridge Mannheim-Ludwigshafen and the tent roof in Munich. Bautechnik , Heft 9, 10 and 11, 1974, pp. 289-298, 332-340 and 371-373
  • with W. Andrä: The strength, especially the fatigue strength of long parallel wire bundles. Bautechnik 56, 1979, No. 4, pp. 128-130
  • with Fritz Leonhardt , Wilhelm Zellner: Two stay cable bridges for rail and road traffic over the Rio Paraná (Argentina). Stahlbau 1979, pp. 225-236, 272-277
  • with Fritz Leonhardt, W. Zellner: Model tests for the cable-stayed bridges Zárate-Brazo Largo over the Rio Paraná (Argentina). Civil engineer 1979, pp. 321–327
  • with Fritz Leonhardt, W. Zellner: The concrete pylons and substructures of the cable-stayed bridges Zárate-Brazo Largo over the Rio Paraná (Argentina). Civil engineer 1980, pp. 1-10
  • with H. Svensson: On the Protection of Bridge Piers against Ship Collision, Die Bautechnik, Volume 58, 1981, pp. 326–335 and pp. 374–388
  • Replacing the suspension cables of bridges at home and abroad, Lindau building seminar 1982
  • with H. Svensson .: To deal with the load case "permanent load" in the proof of structural safety of cable-stayed bridges. Civil engineer 1983, pp. 329-335
  • with W. Zellner, Holger Svensson : Recent Trends in the Design and Construction of Cable-Stayed-Bridges, IABSE 12th Congress, Vancouver, BC, Sept. 3-7, 1984, pp. 279-284
  • with W. Zellner: About experiences in the reconstruction and renovation of bridges, Die Bautechnik 62, 1985, pp. 51-65
  • with H. Svensson: On the Corrosion Protection of Stay Cables, Stahlbau 1990, pp. 165-176
  • On Frontiers of Cable-Stayed Bridges, in: Proceedings of Bridges into the 21st Century, Hong Kong Institution of Engineers 1995, pp. 203-210
  • with M. Braun, E., Jarvenpaa, P. Pulkkinen. The Tahtiniemi Bridge in Finland - a cable-stayed bridge with a curved composite superstructure. Stahlbau 1995, pp. 161–167
  • with Siegfried Hopf .: The Kap Shui Mun Bridge in Hong Kong - a two-story cable-stayed bridge drove road and rail traffic. Concrete and reinforced concrete construction 1997, issue 10, pp. 261-265, issue 11, pp. 308-312
  • with S., Hopf, Karl Humpf, A., Patsch, A. Bacher: Innovative protection against ship impacts drove the Rosario-Victoria Bridge over the Parana (Argentina), Stahlbau 2003, pp. 469–484
  • with K. Humpf, S. Hopf, A. Patsch: The second bridge over the Panama Canal - a cable-stayed bridge with a 420 m central opening and record construction time, concrete and reinforced concrete construction 2005, pp. 225–235
  • with G. Morgenthal: The pedestrian and cycle bridge Kehl-Strasbourg. Stahlbau 2005, pp. 121–125

literature

  • Karl-Eugen Kurrer : Bridges for the World - a magazine for Reiner Saul . In: Stahlbau, 72nd year (2003), no. 6, p. 389.
  • Klaus Stiglat (Ed.): Civil engineers and their work , Ernst & Sohn 2004
  • H. Svensson: Reiner Sauls Brücken , Stahlbau, Volume 72, June 2003, pp. 390-399
  • H. Svensson, S. Hopf, K. Humpf: Reiner Saul 70 Jahre , Beton- und Stahlbetonbau, Volume 103, 2008, No. 6, pp. 443-444

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography in Svensson, cable-stayed bridges, Ernst & Sohn 2003, p. 72
personal data
SURNAME Saul, Reiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Luenen