Edgar Cardoso
Edgar Cardoso (11 May 1913, Resende – 5 July 2000, Porto) was a noted Portuguese civil engineer and university professor. In Portugal, Edgar Cardoso was a pioneer of experimental analysis of structures and of high precision instruments developed to measure parameters affecting structural behavior on small models of his own works.
Early life
Cardoso was born in
Work
On 21 December 1954, Edgar Cardoso began his university teaching career in
Among the bridges that he designed is the Mosteirô bridge, a continuous truss frame beam, and the S.João railway bridge, a continuous structure one thousand metres in length. He made portico-shaped bridges and suspended bridges over the
Beyond his two great bridge projects, Edgar Cardoso invented certain aspects of bridges in Porto. These include a redesign of the upper deck of the Luís I Bridge and two projects that did not materialize, including the widening of the same bridge and a railroad bridge in the Arrábida Bridge, to replace the Maria Pia bridge.
His constructions include:
In Portugal
- Bridge of the Arrábida (Porto)
- Bridge of S. João
- Bridge of the Estuary of the Sousa
- Bridge of Santa Clara (Coimbra)
- Bridge of Mosteirô
- Bridge of the Mondego Estuary (Figueira da Foz)
- Bridges of the albufeira of the Caniçada
- Bridge of Barca d'Alva
- Bridge of São Fins
- Viaduct of Entrecampos
- Bridge of Abragão
- Bridge of the Marateca
- Bridges of the albufeira of the Maranhão
- Reconversion of the tray of Ponte Luís I(Porto)
- Reinforcement of Ponte D. Luís (Santarém)
- Expansion of the Funchal Airport bridge (Madeira)
- Bridge on the Kwanza
- Bridges of the railway line of Moçâmedes
- Bridges on the Cunene, Dande, Kwanza, Longa and Queve rivers
- Repairs to the bridge of Boane
- Bridge of Xai-Xai
- Bridge of the Pungué
- Bridge of the Save
- Bridge on the Zambezi River (Samora Machel Bridge)
In Macau
- Macau-Taipa Bridge (Governor Nobre de Carvalho Bridge)
- Bridge of Sauguém
- Bridges of the Corubal and Cacheu
Blessed with extraordinary manual ability and a solid theorical background, Cardoso constructed models of his structures and on them measured, often with methods or devices he invented himself, the necessary parameters for evaluating the structural behavior.
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Edgar Cardoso's one-kilometre-long Tete suspension bridge, Mozambique