Bernhard Walz
Bernhard Nikolaus Walz (born July 27, 1939 in Berlin ; † August 26, 2009 in Wuppertal ) was a German engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering .
Life
Bernhard Walz studied civil engineering with a focus on construction and transport at the TU Berlin . From 1965 he was a scientific assistant, later a senior engineer at the chair for foundation engineering and soil mechanics . In 1971 he was appointed professor in Berlin. In 1975 he was with the work "The size and distribution of the earth pressure on a circular caisson" to Dr. Ing. PhD .
1978 got rolling a call to the University of Wuppertal on the Department of Underground Construction, foundation engineering and soil mechanics . Among other things, he was dean (1985–1987) and vice dean (1983–1985 and 1989–1991) of the civil engineering department, from 1991 to 1995 prorector for studies and teaching at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and chairman of the commission for teaching, studies and study reform. From 1992 to 2000 Walz was one of the elected expert reviewers of the German Research Foundation (DFG) . From 1996 to 2003 he was chairman of the doctoral committee of the civil engineering department. In 2004 he retired .
Walz was a member of the following standards committees: Safety in earthworks and foundation engineering (DIN 1054), subsoil, calculation methods (DIN 4017, DIN 4019, DIN 4084, DIN 4085) and diaphragm walls (DIN 4126).
He became known for the tunnel solution at the Burgholz State Forest, the traffic connection between the Wuppertal Südhöhen and the Sonnborner Kreuz. Bernhard Walz and his colleague Hermann Schütz came up with the mining tunnel solution through a diploma thesis by Bernhard Wagenbach in 1984. In 2006, the Burgholz tunnel, the largest road tunnel in North Rhine-Westphalia, was completed.
Fonts
- Konrad Simmer , Matthias Pulsfort, Bernhard Walz: Basic construction, part 2 , BG Teubner, 1999; ISBN 3-519-35232-X
- Bernhard Walz and Matthias Pulsfort (eds.): Geotechnical Engineering Colloquium from September 26, 2003 , Volume 25, Reports of the Geotechnical Engineering Department in Wuppertal , Shaker Verlag , ISBN 978-3-8322-2775-3
- Bernhard Walz, Dieter G. Genske: Stability studies on rock slopes using probabilistic safety theory. Final report, IRB-Verlag Stuttgart,
- Hanno Müller-Kirchenbauer , Herbert Klapperich, Walz: Experimental and theoretical investigations on the earth pressure problem on radially symmetrical caissons and shafts , publications of the Grundbauinstitut of the TU Berlin, issue 7, 1980
- Walz, Jörg Prager: The proof of the external stability of suspension-supported earth walls according to the element disk theory , publications of the Grundbauinstitut of the TU Berlin, volume 4, 1978
literature
- Achim Hettler and Karl-Eugen Kurrer : Earth pressure . Ernst & Sohn , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-433-03274-9 , pp. 352–354
Web links
- Website of Bernhard Walz (BUW)
- Obituary: "Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Walz died "
- Info at Structurae: Bernhard Walz 60 years old; Article in "Bautechnik" issue 8, 1999
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Obituary notice August 30, 2009" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Tagesspiegel online, August 30, 2009
- ↑ "The inventor of the giant tunnel died" , Solinger Tageblatt, September 3, 2009
- ↑ Brief presentation of the textbook Grundbau 2 ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Title of the research report online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walz, Bernhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Walz, Bernhard Nikolaus (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 2009 |
| Place of death | Wuppertal |