Aleksandar Vesic

Aleksandar Sedmak Vesic (born August 8, 1924 in Resan-Bitolj , Yugoslavia , † May 3, 1982 in Durham (North Carolina) ) was a Yugoslav-American geotechnician.

Vesic received his doctorate in civil engineering from the University of Belgrade and then went to the Geotechnical Institute in Ghent , went to the USA in 1956 and to the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1958 . In 1964 he became a professor at Duke University , where he was Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering until his death in 1974. From 1971 he was JA Jones Distinguished Professor.

He dealt in particular with the theory of the load-bearing capacity of piles in elastic subsoil, with load transfer from road surfaces (asphalt or concrete slabs) into the subsoil, with the behavior of soils on the seabed (e.g. tensile resistance of objects in the seabed) and with excavation by explosions ( also from atomic explosions).

He chaired the American Society of Civil Engineers' Deep Founding Committee .

Fonts

Design of pile foundations, Transportation Research Board, Washington DC 1977
with Leonard Domaschuk: Theoretical analysis of structural behavior of road test flexible pavements, Highway Research Board, Washington DC 1964

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Aleksandar Vesic in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved March 3, 2016. , Birthplace according to Marquis Who's Who in the World 1979
↑ Obituary for his widow Milena, who died in 2007 ( Memento from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ( English )
↑ Vesic cratering by explosive as on earth pressure trouble , 6.ICSMFE Toronto 1965 427
^ Vesic Expansion of cavities in infinite soil mass , Journal of Soil Mech. Found. Eng., ASCE, Vol. 98, 1972, 265

personal data
SURNAME	Vesic, Aleksandar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Vesic, Aleksandar Sedmak (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Yugoslav-American geotechnician
DATE OF BIRTH	August 8, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Resan-Bitolj , Yugoslavia
DATE OF DEATH	May 3, 1982
Place of death	Durham, North Carolina

[1] Aleksandar Vesic in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved March 3, 2016. , Birthplace according to Marquis Who's Who in the World 1979

[2] Obituary for his widow Milena, who died in 2007 ( Memento from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ( English )

[3] Vesic cratering by explosive as on earth pressure trouble , 6.ICSMFE Toronto 1965 427

[4] Vesic Expansion of cavities in infinite soil mass , Journal of Soil Mech. Found. Eng., ASCE, Vol. 98, 1972, 265