Adolf Pucher

Adolf Pucher (born January 26, 1902 in Graz ; † August 8, 1968 there ) was an Austrian civil engineer specializing in reinforced concrete construction ; he was a professor at the TH Vienna .

Life

Pucher studied at the TH Graz and then worked as an engineer for a construction company in Graz from 1927 onwards. In 1929 he was again at the TH Graz as an assistant in the newly founded chair for reinforced concrete. In 1932 he received his doctorate there with a thesis on the calculation of double-curved shells, which received a lot of attention at the time. He then worked with Dyckerhoff and Widmann in Berlin, where he also completed his habilitation under Franz Dischinger at the TU Berlin (then Technical University of Charlottenburg) and then taught there. In 1941 he became a professor at the TH Vienna. In 1945 he switched back to the construction industry and became an authorized signatory and head of the design office at the construction company Ed. Branch in Graz. In 1961 he was again a professor at the Technical University of Vienna, where he headed the Institute for Reinforced Concrete and Solid Construction from 1966.

In 1949 his well-known textbook on reinforced concrete construction was published (Springer Verlag). His book Influence Fields of Elastic Plates from 1951 was also influential at the time (especially for the dimensioning of bridge deck slabs ).

In 1965 he received the Wilhelm Exner Medal .

literature

• Klaus Stiglat: Civil engineers and their work , Ernst and Son 2003

Web links

• Entry about Adolf Pucher in the database of the Wilhelm Exner Medal Foundation . Biography of the winners of the Exner Medal with photo.