Rudolf Barbré

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Luitpold Bridge Passau

Rudolf Barbré (born August 25, 1907 in Hanover , † May 22, 1997 in Braunschweig ) was a German civil engineer.

Barbré studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Hanover , graduating in 1931. He then worked for the airline company in Hanover on the development of the rail zeppelins (framework statics). Then he was assistant to Ferdinand Schleicher in Hanover and in 1937 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on evenly pressed rectangular plates with longitudinal and horizontal stripes. While he was still working as an assistant, he was a substitute site manager for the construction of the bridge over the Süderelbe in Hamburg.

From 1937 he worked for the August Klönne company in Dortmund as a structural engineer and later a senior engineer and deputy department director. He is significantly involved in the construction (and the reconstruction after the Second World War) of the Rhine bridge Cologne-Rodenkirchen and the new construction of the Luitpold bridge in Passau. He oversaw large bridge building projects worldwide (Sweden, Latvia, Egypt, Balkans, India). In steel construction, he also dealt a lot with hall construction and hydraulic steel construction.

In 1955 he became a professor for steel construction at the TU Braunschweig and headed the institute for steel construction until 1976.

literature

  • Klaus Stiglat : Civil engineers and their work , Ernst and Son 2004, p. 60

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For example, wind tunnel tests on the safety against wind-induced vibrations on this suspension bridge, which have kept civil engineers busy since the collapse of the Tacoma-Narrows Bridge in 1940. Published with R. Ibing in Stahlbau 1958, p. 169
  2. ↑ Barbré, The steel structure of the new suspension bridge over the Rhine at Cologne-Rodenkirchen, steel construction, 1956: 25, 66
  3. ↑ Barbré: Construction of Luitpold suspension bridge across the Danube at Passau, steel structures, 1952, p 9, 25, 56
personal data
SURNAME Barbré, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1997
Place of death Braunschweig