Christian Veder
Christian Veder (born October 20, 1907 in Vienna ; † November 19, 1984 ibid) was an Austrian civil engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering . He is considered to be the inventor of diaphragm wall technology .
life and work
Veder studied civil engineering at the Vienna University of Technology (today Vienna University of Technology), where he obtained his second state examination in 1931 and received his doctorate in 1932 under Karl von Terzaghi . From 1933 on he set up the first soil mechanics laboratory in Italy, which was based on the then new methods of Terzaghi, in Milan at the Giovanni Rodio company. He researched the properties of clay sludge ( bentonite suspension) and their ability to temporarily exercise support functions, from which the diaphragm wall technology later developed under his direction. Today it is widely used in foundation engineering worldwide.
From 1938 to 1948 he worked for the Innerebner und Mayer company in Innsbruck . In 1948 he returned to Milan to the special civil engineering company ICOS (Impresa Costruzioni Opere Specializzate) , where he developed his diaphragm wall technology and applied it to numerous construction sites around the world, first in Italy (compensation basin near Naples on the Volturno ). Veder also founded his own company in 1950 to exploit his processes.
In 1964 he became a professor at Graz University of Technology , where he was the first director of the newly founded Institute for Soil Mechanics, Rock Mechanics and Foundation Engineering. In 1978 he retired, but continued to work as a consulting engineer. For example, he advised on subway construction sites in many cities around the world (Milan, Berlin, Paris, London, Boston, New York, Tokyo, Vienna, Washington DC) and at the World Trade Center in New York City. The multiple anchored diaphragm walls for the construction pit (in the form of a concrete trough ) near the Hudson River were over a kilometer long. They survived the collapse of the World Trade Center in 2001 largely unscathed. His diaphragm wall technology was also used in the production of cut-off walls for dam walls, for example he designed a particularly deep cut-off wall at around 130 m on the Manicouagan Dam in Canada. He also secured the Ponte Flaminio in Rome with diaphragm wall technology.
The manufacture of bored pile walls with bentonite suspension as a supporting fluid can also be traced back to him (ICOS-Veder method, developed at ICOS in 1953).
From around 1975 he developed a redevelopment concept for the Leaning Tower of Pisa , the execution of which prevented his death. He suggested compressing the soil on the north side (the tower tilts to the south) using vertical prestressed anchors.
In his memory, Christian Veder colloquia take place regularly at TU Graz.
One of his employees at Rodio in Milan was Walter Bernatzik . He is an honorary doctor in Padua and received the Wilhelm Exner Medal in 1979 .
Fonts
- New processes for the production of underground walls and injection screens in loose rock and permeable rock, reports from the Institute for Water Management, Foundation Engineering and Structural Hydraulic Engineering of the Graz University of Technology, Issue 1, 1959
- Landslides and their remediation, Springer 1979 (with contribution by Fritz Hilbert, English translation 1981)
literature
- M. Fuchsberger (editor): Special issue for the 75th birthday of Christian Veder, communications of the Institute for Soil Mechanics, Rock Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Graz 1983
Web links
- Brief biography at TU Graz
- Biography at the Austria Lexicon with photo
- Entry about Christian Veder in the database of the Wilhelm Exner Medal Foundation .
References
- ↑ Rodio specialized in soil injections and was then close friends with Terzaghi, with whom he regularly went on vacation and from whom he also took on students. The relationship later cooled after both competed for waterproofing work for a dam project in Algeria that Rodio eventually carried out. According to the Terzaghi biography of Goodman, the reason for the break was one of Rodio's suspected indiscretion to the press.
1. Chair for steel construction: Moritz Wappler (1846–1863) | Adolf Gabriely (1864-1893) | Josef Cecerle (1893–1919) | Georg Kapsch (1920–1929) | Franz Brunner (1930–1943) | Konrad Sattler (1944–1945) | Hermann Beer (1955–1972) | Friedrich Resinger (1974–1988) | Richard Pischl (1976-2004) | Richard Greiner (1981-2010) | Harald Unterweger (since 2011)
2. Chair for Roads and Transportation: Remigius Götz (1865–1866) | Karl Scheidtenberger (1866–1885) | Martin Kovatsch (1886-1894) | Emil Teischinger (1895–1921) | Valentin Köck (1921–1923) | Paul Döll (1924–1938) | Ernst Gottstein (1940–1945) | Alois Pendl (1946–1962) | Josef Raimund Dorfwirth (1964–1974) | Herbert Köstenberger (1974–1990) | Helmut Stickler (1995-2003) | Martin Fellendorf (since 2005)
3. Chair for structural engineering: Karl Stelzel (1876–1912) | Fritz Postuvanschitz (1913–1926) | Heinrich Leitz (1929–1930) | Heinrich Neukirch (1931–1939) | Hermann Beer (1940–1955) | Ernst Chwalla (1955–1960) | Konrad Sattler (1961–1975) | Peter Klement (1975–1993) | Gernot Beer (1993–2012) | Thomas-Peter Fries (since 2013)
4. Chair for hydraulic engineering and water management: Wilhelm Heyne (1876–1894) | Philipp Forchheimer (1894–1914) | Hans Paul (1915–1938) | Armin Schoklitsch (1939–1945) | Hermann Grengg (1950–1962) | Helmut Simmler (1964–1987) | Günther Heigerth (1989–2006) | Gerald Zenz (since 2007)
5. Chair for concrete construction: Robert Bortsch (1928–1941) | Hermann Craemer (1941–1945) | Erich Friedrich (1948–1966) | Fritz Bauer (1967–1980) | Richard Küng (1973–1994) | Adalbert Koberg (1981-1995) | Lutz Sparowitz (1994–2009) | Viet Tue Nguyen (since 2010)
6. Chair for Railways and Transport Economics: Paul Döll (1940–1943) | Erwin Massute (1943–1945) | Karl Klugar (1969–1982) | Klaus Rießberger (1984–2009) | Peter Veit (since 2010)
7. Chair for Urban Water Management and Landscaping: Max Breitenöder (1957–1964) | Ernst Nemecek (1965–1988) | Helmut Renner (1983–2000) | Harald Kainz (since 2001) | Dirk Muschalla (since 2012)
8. Chair for Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Numerical Geotechnics: Christian Veder (1964–1979) | Heinz Brandl (1979–1981) | Martin Fuchsberger (1982-1993) | Stephan Semprich (1993–2011) | Roman Marte (since 2012)
9. Chair for Building Construction: Fritz Reischl (1964–1981) | Horst Gamerith (1981-2006) | Peter Kautsch (2008–2019) | Oliver Englhardt (2010–2017) | Michael Monsberger (since 2016) | Christina Hopfe (since 2020)
10. Chair for Construction Management and Construction: Rudolf Aita (1970–1978) | Norbert Raaber (1981-1996) | Gert Stadler (1996-2006) | Hans Lechner (2002–2013) | Detlef Heck (since 2006) | Gottfried Mauerhofer (since 2013)
11. Chair for materials testing and building material technology: Helmut Geymayer (1980–2002) | Peter Maydl (since 2003) | Markus Krüger (since 2015)
12. Chair for building mechanics: Rudolf Greimel (1985–2004) | Martin Schanz (since 2005)
13. Chair for rock mechanics and tunnel construction: Wulf Schubert (1993–2018) | Thomas Marcher (since 2018)
14. Chair for structural engineering: Karl Kernbichler (1997-2004)
15. Chair for wood construction and wood technology: Gerhard Schickhofer (since 2004)
retired chair for building informatics: Ulrich Walder (2004–2013); retired chair for hydraulics and hydrology: Ferdinand Wehrschütz (1974–1995) | Heinz Bergmann (1975-2002)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Veder, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1984 |
| Place of death | Vienna |