Eduardo Torroja

Infobox Engineer


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nationality = Spanish
birth_date = 1899
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death_date = 1961
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significant_projects = Tempul cable-stayed aqueduct
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Eduardo Torroja y Miret, (1899-1961) Spanish structural engineer and architect, pioneer in the design of concrete-shell structures. His first large project was the Tempul cable-stayed aqueduct in 1926 [Troyano, Leonardo, '"Bridge Engineering: A Global Perspective"', Thomas Telford Publishing, 2003, p.650] , Guadalete, Jerez de la Frontera, in which he used prestressed girders, and he made his name with the concrete shell-roof at the Algeciras Market Hall (1933). Eduardo Torroja designed thin-shell water tower in Fedala [ [http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0002124 water tower in Fedala] ] and the roof of hippodrome "Zarzuela" [ [http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0000430 hippodrome "Zarzuela"] ] in the form of hyperboloid of revolution.He also used steel with great élan, as at the roof of the Football Stadium, Barcelona (1943). He designed innovative structures in numerous parts of the world, including Morocco and Latin America. His books include "Philosophy of Structures" (1958) and "The Structures of Eduardo Torroja" (1958).

ee also

* Concrete shell
* Thin-shell structure
* Hyperboloid structure

References

Further reading

* Eduardo Torroja: "The Structures of Eduardo Torroja", Ministerio de Fomento, Madrid, ISBN 84-498-0462-0, 2000
* Eduardo Torroja: "Philosophy of Structures", University of California Press, Los Angeles, 1958, (translated by Jaroslav Joseph Polivka with Milos Polivka)

External links

* [http://en.structurae.de/persons/data/index.cfm?ID=d000039 Eduardo Torroja y Miret]
* [http://www.anc-d.fukui-u.ac.jp/~ishikawa/Aloss/page/Torroja_Work.htm Photos of Works by Eduardo Torroja]
* [http://ibois.epfl.ch/webdav/site/ibois2/shared/torrojaeduardo.pdf The structures of Eduardo Torroja]