Andrei Walther

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Andrei Walther (born October 25, 1972 in Elsterwerda ) is a German civil engineer . Together with Bernd Hillemeier , he received the Berlin-Brandenburg Innovation Prize in 2006 .

Life

Andrei Walther grew up in the small town of Elsterwerda in Brandenburg . Here he attended the polytechnic high school " Etkar André " in the Biehla district until 1989 . He then learned the trade of bricklayer in Cottbus , graduated from high school and studied civil engineering at the TU Berlin until 2002 . As a graduate civil engineer, he played a key role in the development of a test system for locating breaks in the prestressed reinforcement on bridges. Together with Bernd Hillemeier, he received the Berlin-Brandenburg Innovation Prize 2006 for the method of locating tensioning wire breaks in transverse tendons of prestressed concrete bridges . Walther did his doctorate at the Technical University of Berlin under Bernd Hillemeier on non-destructive testing of prestressing steel . He has been an entrepreneur in Brandenburg an der Havel since 2009 and at KIWA since 2018 .

Teaching and Research

Andrei Walther's main research areas are building material testing and tension wire break detection . From 2011 to 2016 Andrei Walther was a lecturer at the FH Potsdam . In the 2015 summer semester, he also took on a visiting professorship for building materials at the HafenCity University (HCU) in Hamburg .

Since 2016 he has been honorary professor for building analysis and non-destructive testing methods at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam .

Works and publications (selection)

  • Fast NDT Localization of Prestressing Steel Fractures in PT Concrete Bridges . Structural Faults and Repairs, Edinburgh 2008
  • Locating breaks in the prestressed reinforcement in prestressed concrete components - fast, innovative and in high quality - . Symposium on Modern Building Inspection - Technical and Legal Aspects, Federal Highway Research Institute, Bergisch Gladbach 2010; DGZfP report volume BB 123-CD.
  • Building diagnosis on modern monuments: User-oriented building renovation , Bauhaus University Weimar , 2010, ISBN 978-3-86068-421-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.bauconsulting.com (pdf), accessed on January 5, 2015
  2. ↑ Harald Olkus: “New divining rod finds iron damage in concrete” in Der Tagesspiegel , December 2, 2006
  3. ↑ "Innovative products from creative minds", media information from TU Berlin No. 294, December 1, 2006
  4. ↑ a b Vita of Andrei Walther at www.bauconsulting.com , accessed on January 10, 2017
  5. ↑ Internet presence of the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, Andrei Walther , accessed on December 21, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Walther, Andrei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Elsterwerda