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The Millau Viaduct is a cable-stayed road bridge which spans the valley of the river Tarn situated alongside the Township of Millau in Southern France. The viaduct standing over 343 meters tall was the world’s tallest cable-stayed bridge and was proposed as the missing link in the A75 auto route that connects Paris in the north to Perpignan in the south. The Millau Viaduct was the product of 17 years of ideas, proposals, planning and designs that resulted in shaving 40 miles off the former route

The Millau Viaduct Connects two limestone plateaus (the Causse du Larzac and the Causse Rouge), crossing above the Tarn valley below, who’s small winding country roads around the town of Millau used to be heavily congested in holiday seasons as it was the only way across the valley. The Bridge is situated in the communes of Millau and Creissels, in the south of France. The Millau Viaduct is the final link in the A75 AutoRoute, a superhighway which stretches from Clermont-Ferrand to Pezenas. This

Millau Viaduct The Millau Viaduct is located on Millau and Creissels, France. The bridge stretches across the Tarn River. It is the world's tallest cable-stayed bridge with a height of 343m (which is 40m more than the height of Eiffel Tower). It spans 2.6 km and has a net weight of about 266,000 tons. During summer, the roads stretching along Tarn valley, from Paris to Spain used to become jammed with holiday traffic, which created caused the necessity for construction of a bridge. The objective

materials used in groundworks, foundations and substructures. Millau Viaduct Millau Viaduct is the tallest bridge in the world, located in Southern France. The bridge reaches the height of 343 meters and weighs in a 36,000 tonnes. The bridge was designed by the French structural engineer Michel Virlogeux and British architect Norman Foster. The bridge opened in 2004 on 16th December after costing around €400 million. The Construction of the Millau came in three parts: the concrete, the steel and then the

Taj Mahal The Taj Mahal is an ivory white marble mausoleum situated on the south bank of the Yamuna River in the Agra district in Uttar Pradesh, India. It was initially built by Emperor Shah Jahan to house the tomb of his wife. The Taj Mahal remains an architectural wonder of the modern world. The construction began around 1632 and completed in 1648, with the mosque, the guest house and the main gateway on the south, the outer courtyard and its cloisters were added subsequently and completed in

dissertation will mainly focus on civil engineering. Civil engineering requires designing, constructing and maintaining huge infrastructure projects like highways, railroads, bridges, tunnels, dams, airports and buildings.[1] Source 3 states that the wiki Millau viaduct is the longest bridge in the world.It is a multi span cable stayed bridge that connects the two sides of the A75 which connects Paris to Barcelona but to be exact it links Paris to Perpignon. The bridge was designed by a French structural

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ASEISMIC FOUNDATION DESIGN PROCESS LESSONS LEARNED FROM TWO MAJOR PROJECTS : THE VASCO DA GAMA AND THE RION-ANTIRION BRIDGES Alain PECKER Géodynamique et Structure, 157 Rue des Blains 92220 BAGNEUX, France 1 INTRODUCTION The choice of a design concept for a bridge foundation is guided by various factors; several of these factors are indeed of technical origin, like the environmental conditions in a broad sense, but others non technical factors may also have a profound impact on the final design concept

ways people have rebelled against what they say are unfair laws. “One of the first civil disobedience implements were brought about when the egyptians went against the british occupation in 1919”. One case of civil disobedience was when a farmer in Millau was taking a McDonald's down brick by

for the act when they have to face consequences. For example, a man named José Bové was a French sheep farmer who was an alter-globalization activist. He was sentenced to three months and served 44 days for destruction of a Mcdonald’s being built in Millau, Aveyron, France. He was jailed from June 19th to August 4th, 2001. The reason José has done such a thing was to save the small farmers around where he lives and doesn’t agree with junk food. When he explained why he did it, he said, “this is a fight