Axel Bendixsen

Axel Bendixsen (born November 3, 1884 in Thisted , † April 10, 1965 in Argentina ) was a Danish civil engineer .

Bendixsen studied civil engineering at the Polytechnic in Copenhagen from 1902 to 1907 . Through lectures by Asger Ostenfeld , he began to be interested in the then new field of reinforced concrete. He worked as an engineer for various construction companies: 1907 to 1909 with Carl Brandt in Düsseldorf and Bremen, 1909/10 with Christiani & Nielsen in Copenhagen, 1910 to 1912 with Rudolf Wolle in Leipzig. From 1912 to 1917 he worked for the state construction company Burgerlijke Openbar-Werken, based in Weltevreden in Indonesia (at that time the Dutch East Indies), which was then responsible for public construction tasks in the Dutch colony.

In Indonesia he developed the path size method (deformation method ) as a practical construction method of structural engineering for frame structures and published this as a book in 1914. This also stimulated his teacher Ostenfeld to take up the method and develop it himself.

In 1918 he accepted a position as a civil engineer for a Dutch company in Argentina. In 1929 he received his doctorate at the Polytechnic in Copenhagen.

In 1938 he became a Knight of the Danebrog Order . In 1941 he became president of an association in Argentina (Liga Pro Ayuda Dinamarca) that supported compatriots in occupied Denmark.

Publications (selection)

• The method of alpha equations for calculating frame structures. Springer, 1914.
• The calculation of rib domes with an upper and lower ring. In: Reinforced concrete. Volume 8, 1915, pp. 45-49, 76-80, 95-101 and 114-119.
• Beregning af spaendingerne i crooked flader, specielt kugelfladen. 1930 (with German résumé).

literature

• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 805f and p. 969 (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9

Remarks

1. ↑ Possibly died in Buenos Aires according to Kurrer, History of the Theory of Structures, 2018, p. 969.