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{{Short description|French civil engineer}}
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|nationality          = [[France|French]]
|birth_date           = {{birth date and age|1946|07|07|df=yes}}
|birth_place          = [[Vichy]], [[Allier]], [[Auvergne]], [[France]]
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|education            = [[Prytanée National Militaire]]<br>[[École Polytechnique]]<br>[[École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées]]
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|discipline           = [[Civil engineer]]
|institutions         = French Association of Civil Engineering (AFGC)<br>'Fédération Internationale de Précontrainte' (FIP) <br>'Fédération Internationale du Béton' (FIB)<br> [[Institution of Structural Engineers]]
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|significant_projects = [[Millau Viaduct]], [[France]]<br>[[Vasco da Gama Bridge]], [[Lisbon]], [[Portugal]]<br>[[Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge]], [[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]]
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|significant_awards   = [[IStructE]] Gold Medal<br> [[Award of Merit in Structural Engineering|IABSE Award of Merit]]<br>[[Fritz Leonhardt|Fritz Leonhardt Prize]]<br>[[FREng]]<ref name="RAENG fellows">{{cite web|title=List of Fellows|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows}}</ref> (2012)
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'''Michel Virlogeux''' (born 1946, [[Vichy]], [[Allier]], [[Auvergne]]) is a French [[structural engineer]] and [[bridge]] specialist.

==Career==
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Virlogeux graduated from the ''[[École Polytechnique]]'' in 1967 and from the ''[[École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées]]'' in 1970. From 1970 to 1973 he served in [[Tunisia]] on road projects and at the same time gained his Engineering Doctorate from the ''Pierre et Marie Curie University'' (also known as "Paris 6"). In January 1974 he joined the Bridge Department of SETRA, the technical service of the French Highway Administration.

In 1980 he became Head of the Large Concrete Bridge Division, and in 1987 of the large Bridge Division, Steel and Concrete. During twenty years he designed more than 100 bridges, including the [[Pont de Normandie|Normandy Bridge]] which held the world record for longest [[cable-stayed bridges|cable-stayed bridge]] for four years. In 1995 he left the French Administration and set up as independent consulting engineer; his major achievements include his participation in the construction of the 'Second Tagus Crossing', the [[Vasco da Gama Bridge]] in [[Lisbon]], and the design of the [[Millau Viaduct]] in France. Several of his bridges have received architectural awards.

Since 1977, Virlogeux has been a part-time professor of structural analysis at the ''École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées'' and at the ''Centre des Hautes Études de la Construction'' in Paris. He also has been very active in technical associations such as the French Association of Civil Engineering (AFGC), 1974–1995; the ''Fédération Internationale de Précontrainte'' (FIP) (President 1996); the ''[[Fédération Internationale du Béton]]'' (FIB); first President in 1998 after the merger with the ''Comité Européen du Béton'' (CEB).

==Awards==
A member of the [[International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering]] (IABSE)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.iabse.org/ |title=iabse.org |access-date=2020-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123010143/http://www.iabse.org/ |archive-date=2019-01-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> since 1974, Virlogeux received the inaugural IABSE Prize in Venice in 1983.

He has received many other international awards, which include the 'Award of Excellence of the Engineering News Record' (1995), the 'Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers' (1979), the Gold Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers (2005)<ref>[http://www.ice.org.uk/downloads//ice_awards.pdf ice.org.uk]</ref> the 'Gustave Magnel Medal' (1999) and the '[[Fritz Leonhardt|Fritz Leonhardt Prize]]' (also the first year that it was awarded). He is a member of the [[French Academy of Technologies|French Academy of Technology]].

He received the 2003 IABSE Award of Merit in Structural Engineering in recognition of "his major contributions leading to very significant progress in the field of civil engineering, in particular through the development of external prestressing, landmark cable-stayed bridges and composite structures". The Award Presentation took place during the Opening of the IABSE Symposium 'Structures for High-Speed Railway Transportation', [[Antwerp]], [[Belgium]] on 27 August 2003. The presentation was presented by Manabu Ito, President of IABSE.

In 2010 he was invited to deliver the MacMillan Memorial Lecture to the [[Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland]]. He chose the subject "The Design of Long Span Bridges".<ref name="MacmillanLecture2010">{{cite web |url=http://www.iesis.org/macmillan.html |title=Hugh Miller Macmillan |work=Macmillan Memorial Lectures |publisher=[[Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland]] |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004102303/http://www.iesis.org/macmillan.html |archivedate=4 October 2018 |accessdate=29 January 2019 }}</ref>

He was appointed an International [[Fellow]] of the [[Royal Academy of Engineering]]<ref name="RAENG fellows" /> in 2012 and Corresponding Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] in 2013.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/michel-virlogeux/|title=Dr Michel Virlogeux CorrFRSE, FREng - The Royal Society of Edinburgh|work=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|access-date=2018-02-01|language=en-GB}}</ref>  
 
{{wide image|Vasco da Gama bridge panorama.jpg|1300px|View of [[Vasco da Gama Bridge]], [[Lisbon]].}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://archive.today/20040903034337/http://www.iabse.ethz.ch/association/awards/merit/virlogeux.php Dr Michel Virlogeux, France] [[IABSE]] biography
* {{Structurae person|id=d000033|name=Michel Virlogeux}}

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