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SUMMARY:Axially suspended decks for road and railway bridges -  Example: R
 ailway bridge\, Sado crossing
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Antonio Reis\nThe seminar will cover from some basic des
 ign concepts and options for this bridge deck typology\, to some more adva
 nced aspects related to the main issues related to static analysis and aer
 odynamic stability. Simple voided slab decks to single cell or multicell 
 box girders or even spatial composite truss decks\, may be adopted with an
  axially suspension scheme in cable stayed and bow string arches. The deck
  torsional stiffness is of course the main issue to control the static and
  dynamic responses under traffic and wind loadings. A variety of design e
 xamples are discussed.\nShort Bio: Antonio J. REIS got his MS from IST Lis
 bon and his PhD from Univ. Waterloo\, Canada. He pursued both an academic 
 and professional career as structural engineer. He joined the Technical Un
 iversity of Lisbon in 1977 as assistant Prof. and became full Prof. in 198
 5. His research and teaching activities in are in the domain of Bridges an
 d Design of Structures. Most of his research work at the University has be
 en on steel and composite bridges and stability of structures. He has more
  than 130 technical and scientific publications in proceedings of internat
 ional congresses and journals and is the co-author of two books.\nIn paral
 lel\, in 1980\, he founded his own design office\, GRID consulting enginee
 rs Ltd. He is responsible for the design of a variety prestressed concrete
 \, steel and composite bridges\, including cable stayed bridges and bowstr
 ing arches and  the strengthening of many bridges including suspension br
 idges. He also has designed other special structures including several lon
 g span roofs for football stadiums. GRID projects and consultancy cover 16
  different countries in Europe\, Africa\, Asia and South America. In 2006 
 was nominated “ Comendador da Ordem de Mérito” by the President of th
 e Portuguese Republic.
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
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