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Arch Bridges by Croatian Builder Milivoj Frkovic

Abstract. Milivoj Frkovic (1887.-1946.), very creative Croatian bridge builder, was acting in the first half of the 20. th century. Frković started his work in the era of truss steel bridges. The massive usage of such structures, irifluenced by steel industry, for both railroad and road bridges, was widespread throughout the country. Such practice required neither creativity nor much knowledge. Frkovic opposed this plague of ugly bridges by designing original structures made of stone, concrete and masonry. He showed that it was possible to build unique, beautiful, more functional, different bridges, which were price competitive but superior in all other aspects. Milivoj Frkovic designed and mostly constructed a number of bridges. Some of them are briejly presented in the paper.

arch bridge ; bridge design ; historical bridge

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