Roger Lacroix

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Roger Louis Lacroix (born February 24, 1928 in Briançon , Hautes-Alpes department , † October 16, 2016 in Paris ) was a French civil engineer.

Life

Lacroix studied from 1946 at the École Polytechnique and the École nationale des ponts et chaussées (graduated in 1951). He was then Ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées for six years , before heading the technical department of the oil company Total for four years. He then worked for fourteen years as the technical manager of the construction company Société Générale d'Enterprise and, from 1974, head of an engineering office (SFP). From 1976 he was vice chairman of the Sea Tank Company and 1981 to 1982 chairman of Sogelerg Structures. In addition to his work as a consulting engineer, he was later professor of reinforced and prestressed concrete at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées, where he was head of the civil engineering department. Lacroix was in the Conseil General des Ponts et Chaussées. Most recently he advised Freyssinet as a consultant.

In 1994 he received the Albert Caquot Prize and in 1986 the Freyssinet Medal . In 1990 he was accepted into the National Academy of Engineering for pioneering work in prestressed concrete reactor pressure vessels, offshore structures and bridges. His partially futuristic design projects include plans for the Channel Tunnel to England, a bridge over the Strait of Gibraltar and the La Rana tidal power station.

He was president of fip , whose fip medal he received in 1986, and honorary president of the Society of French Civil Engineers (AFGC) and president of the Association Frangaise pour la Construction. Lacroix was an officer of the Legion of Honor and the Ordre national du mérite , Chevalier des Arts et Lettres.

literature

  • Biography in IABSE Bulletin 2/1986

Fonts

  • with Albert Fuentès: Le Projet de béton précontraint, Paris: Eyrolles 1981
  • with Albert Fuentès, Henri Thonier: Traité de béton armé, Cours de l'École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris: Eyrolles 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website at the National Academy of Engineering
personal data
SURNAME Lacroix, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lacroix, Roger Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Briançon
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 2016
Place of death Paris