{"id":77,"date":"2020-12-20T18:39:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T17:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/details\/?post_type=projects&#038;p=77"},"modified":"2023-02-15T01:02:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T00:02:47","slug":"garabit","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/www.detailsinsection.org\/?projects=garabit","title":{"rendered":"Le Viaduc de Garabit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Engineer:<br \/>\nGustave Eiffel<\/p>\n<p>Name of the bridge:<br \/>\nLe Viaduc de Garabit<\/p>\n<p>Site:<br \/>\nBridge over the Truy\u00e8re River, part of the Causses Line<\/p>\n<p>Clients:<br \/>\nFrench Government<\/p>\n<p>Contractors:<br \/>\nMM. Eiffel et C ie (Compagnie des \u00e9tabilissements Eiffel)<\/p>\n<p>Engineer:<br \/>\nL\u00e9on Boyer (structural engineer);<br \/>\nMaurice K\u0153chlin (structural engineer);<br \/>\n\u00c8mile Nouguier (general studies and process manager)<\/p>\n<p>Other actors:<br \/>\nJ.B. Gobert (working site assistant inspector);<br \/>\nM. Compagnon (engineering staff)<\/p>\n<p>Building permit:<br \/>\n14 June 1879<\/p>\n<p>Start of construction works:<br \/>\nJanuary 1880<\/p>\n<p>Project variations steps:<br \/>\nOctober 1882 (end of masonry);<br \/>\nAugust 1882 (building of the first metallic pillar);<br \/>\n24 June 1883 (building of the arch)<\/p>\n<p>End of construction works:<br \/>\nNovember 1884<\/p>\n<p>Construction system:<br \/>\nMetal railway viaduct with masonry abutments on both sides. The main span over the<br \/>\nTruy\u00e8re river consists of a double hinged deck truss metal arch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tra gli interventi di potenziamento delle infrastrutture ferroviarie lo Stato francese<br \/>\ncommissiona nel 1879 con una procedura allora inusuale per le opere pubbliche, la<br \/>\nlicitazione diretta, il progetto di un grande viadotto che colleghi i centri di Marvejols e<br \/>\nNeussargues, superando l\u2019ampia vallata del fiume Truy\u00e8re ad un\u2019altezza in quota di 122m,<br \/>\n\u201cpour donner une id\u00e9e de cette hauter [\u2026], il nous souffira de dire qu\u2019elle d\u00e9passe<br \/>\nnotablement celle des tours de Notre Dame du Paris, et de la colonne Vend\u00f4me<br \/>\nsuperpos\u00e9es\u201d (Viaduc de Garraby: le plus gigantesque travail du monde, Paris, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, fond Eiffel). L\u2019appaltatore proposto e incaricato dagli ingegneri Bauby e Boyer per<br \/>\nl\u2019impresa colossale di un tratto di rotabile lungo 564m \u00e8 la Eiffel et Cie. gi\u00e0 nota per aver<br \/>\ncostruito un\u2019opera di simile tecnologia a Porto, sul fiume Douro, pur essendo pi\u00f9 breve di<br \/>\ncirca 200 m. Ma il poco tempo che separa i due manufatti pi\u00f9 famosi di Eiffel, datati 1875 e<br \/>\n1879, sono anni di grandi cambiamenti sia nella Compagnia sia, in maniera pi\u00f9 rilevante,<br \/>\nnelle metodologie di calcolo grafico. Cos\u00ec il Garabit rimane ancora oggi uno degli esempi pi\u00f9<br \/>\nrilevanti ancora in servizio della grande architettura del ferro ottocentesca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":564,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-77","projects","type-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","architect-eiffel","year-1880-1884"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailsinsection.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/projects\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailsinsection.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/projects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailsinsection.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/projects"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailsinsection.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailsinsection.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailsinsection.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}