Jörg Schlaich
Jörg Schlaich | |
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| File:Lt91a.jpg Jörg Schlaich | |
| Born | 1934 |
| Nationality | German |
| Education | Stuttgart University Technical University of Berlin Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
| Occupation | Engineer |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | Structural engineer |
| Institutions | Institution of Structural Engineers |
| Practice name | Schlaich Bergermann & Partner |
| Projects | Olympic Stadium, Munich Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion Solar updraft tower |
| Significant advance | strut and tie model for reinforced concrete |
| Awards | IStructE Gold Medal, Werner von Siemens Ring, Award of Merit in Structural Engineering, José-Entrecanales-Ibarra-award |
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Drs. h.c. Jörg Schlaich (born 1934) is a German structural engineer. He later founded his own firm Schlaich Bergermann & Partner.
Early career
Jörg Schlaich studied architecture and civil engineering from 1953 to 1955 at Stuttgart University before completing his studies at the Technical University of Berlin in 1959. He spent 1959-60 at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, USA.
In 1963 he joined the firm Leonhardt & Andrä, the firm founded by Fritz Leonhardt.
Later career
Schlaich was made a partner and was responsible for the Olympic Stadium, Munich. He stayed with the firm until 1969.
In 1974 he became an academic at Stuttgart University, and in 1980 he founded his own firm, Schlaich Bergermann & Partner.
In 1993, with the roof of the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion (since 2008 Mercedes-Benz-Arena) in Stuttgart, he introduced the "speichenrad" principle to structural engineering. Indeed, this principle was employed the first time in the history of Structural Engineering by the Italian engineer Massimo Majowiecki, the designer of the roof of the Olympic Stadium, Rome (built in 1990, three years before the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion). Since then, his company successfully employed it to stadium projects across the globe. Other structures include the observation tower at the Killesbergpark in Stuttgart. Most of his work as well of that of his company is documented on their website. He is also the developer of the solar tower (or solar chimney) and is largely credited with inventing the strut and tie model for reinforced concrete.[1]
Further reading
- Schlaich, Jörg; Bergermann, Rudolf. Leicht Weit (Light Structures) ISBN 3791329189.
- Holgate, Alan. The Art of Structural Engineering: The Work of Jorg Schlaich and his Team (Books Britain, 1996) ISBN 3930698676.
- Schlaich, Jörg. The Solar Chimney: Electricity from the Sun ISBN 3930698692.
- Schlaich, Jörg; Rudolf Bergermann, Wolfgang Schiel & Gerhard Weinrebe (February 2005). "Template:PDFlink". Journal of Solar Energy Engineering 127 (1): 117-124. DOI:10.1115/1.1823493. Retrieved on 2007-03-15.
External links
References
- ^ Schlaich, J., K. Schäfer, M. Jennewein (1987). "Toward a Consistent Design of Structural Concrete". PCI Journal, Special Report, Vol. 32, No. 3.
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