Background
PROSKURYAKOV, Lavr was born on August 30, 1858.
PROSKURYAKOV, Lavr was born on August 30, 1858.
1884 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Institute of Transport Engineer.
From 1887 lecturer, Saint St. Petersburg Institute of Transport Engineer. From 1896 professor, Moscow Engineer College (now Moscow Institute of Rail Transport Engineer). Designed a number of economics, light bridges with new type of girders (spanning the Rivers Narva, Western Bug, Volkhov, Oka, Amur, Yenisey, Zeya, etc).
Pioneered design of railroad bridges. His graphic-analytical methods of calculation and his lines of influence theory (covering the influence of mobile loads) provided the basis for late 19th-Century changes in the methods of calculating bridge girders. Compiled special “factor tables” for practical calculations.
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