Panama – There is also the contribution of the University of Udine in the realization of the 16 steel gates, up to 33 meters high and built from Cimolai, of the new Panama Canal opened last June. Friuli University has designed and tested in its laboratories, the rubber seals with steel core and vertical and horizontal structural supports in steel-rubber of the gates. The study and testing of the two elements was conducted by the research group coordinated by Gaetano Russo and composed by Andrea Courtesy, Igino Pitacco and Guido Tognan. Scientific cooperation of the University of Udine was held on the basis of two agreements with Cimolai and Ilpea Industries stipulated by the former Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture now merged into the new Polytechnic Department of engineering and architecture. (9Colonne)
