Charles Massonet
Charles Massonet (born March 14, 1914 in Arlon , † April 4, 1996 in Liège ) was a Belgian civil engineer.
Massonet studied civil engineering at the University of Liège from 1931 to 1936 . After military service he did research for the national Belgian research company FNRS under the bridge construction engineer Ferdinand Campus (co-founder of the International Association for Bridge & Structural Engineering, IABSE). From 1940 to 1945 he was a German prisoner of war and during this time studied German literature on civil engineering and materials science (including the books by Stephen Timoshenko ). From 1946 to 1949 he was assistant professor for elasticity theory and strength theory at the University of Liège and from 1950 to 1983 professor for structural engineering and steel construction.
He did pioneering work in the boundary element method, stability theory and ultimate load method, which he also transferred to the standardization methods in steel construction (he was in important international standards committees).
He was an honorary doctor of the ETH Zurich , the TH Chalmers in Gothenburg , the University of Karlsruhe (since 1985) and a corresponding member of the National Academy of Engineering . In 1982 he became a member of the Polish Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
The Charles Massonnet Prize is named in his honor.
Fonts
- with M. Save: Calcul plastique des constructions, 2 volumes, Brussels: CBLIA 1961, 1963
- with R. Bares: Le calcul des grillages de poutres et dalles orthotropes selon la methode Guyon-Massonnet-Bares, Paris: Dunod 1966
literature
- Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 612f and p. 1029f (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .
- René Maquoi : Charles Massonnet died, Der Stahlbau, Volume 65, 1996, pp. 229–230
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maquoi was the successor to Massonnet's chair and continued his work
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Massonet, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arlon |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 1996 |
| Place of death | Liege |