Armand Mayer

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Armand Mayer (born January 16, 1894 in Paris ; † December 22, 1986 ibid) was a French civil engineer ( geotechnical engineering ) who dealt in particular with rock mechanics.

Mayer came from a Jewish family from Lorraine who went to Paris after 1871. His great uncle Amédée Mannheim (1831–1906) was a mathematics professor at the École polytechnique , his father Louis Mayer was a lawyer and advisor to the Prince of Monaco. His uncle, from whom he took his name, was an officer and died in a duel surrounding the Dreyfuß affair . Mayer studied at the École Polytechnique (graduated in 1913, as the 6th of his year), interrupted from military service in World War I, where he was last liaison officer to the American allies, and from 1919 to 1921 at the École des Mines . In 1934 he founded the first French laboratory for soil mechanics at the Bureau Securitas (later part of the Laboratoire du Bâtiment et des Travaux Publics, LBTP), where he dealt with soil injections and worked a lot in the construction of airfields, for example in North Africa during World War II . In 1947 he founded the “Center d'études et de recherches de l'industrie des liants hydrauliques” (CERILH) in Paris and was its first director until 1966. In 1961 he was with Jean Mandel (1907–1982) and P. Habib at the Involved in the establishment of the Mechanics Laboratory of the École Polytechnique. Mayer worked as a consultant on numerous geotechnical projects (dams, traffic structures, foundations, etc.) well into old age.

At the beginning of the 1960s, accidents such as that of Clamart in 1961 (where an underground limestone quarry collapsed with devastating effects on the buildings above it and 21 dead) and the breakage of the Barrage de Malpasset in 1959 led to increased interest in rock mechanics in France, which Mayer also shared turned intensely.

In 1963 he gave the Rankine Lecture (Recent work in rock mechanics). He was President of the French Committee for Soil Mechanics and Rock Mechanics.

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  1. ^ French report on the accident . The cause was never exactly clarified and an attack by the OAS on a nearby military hospital was even suspected
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Armand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French engineer
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1986
Place of death Paris