Donald Wood Taylor
Donald Wood Taylor (* 1900 in Worcester (Massachusetts) , † December 24, 1955 in Arlington (Massachusetts) ) was an American geotechnician and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Taylor graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute as a civil engineer in 1922 . He then spent nine years as an engineer with the US Coastal and Geodetic Survey and then with the New England Power Association. From 1932 he was at MIT, where he remained as a professor until his untimely death in 1955. Shortly before, he was nominated for the presidency of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers. From 1948 to 1953 he was secretary of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundations Engineering.
He dealt specifically with consolidation , slope stability, shear resistance of cohesive soils (with cohesion) and wrote a textbook on soil mechanics that was well known in the USA at the time.
One of his students is T. William Lambe , also at MIT.
literature
- Biography in Lambe, Robert V. Whitman Soil Mechanics , MIT Press 1969
- Taylor Fundamentals of Soil Mechanics , Wiley 1948
Individual evidence
- ↑ For The stability of earth slopes (Journal of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, Volume 24, 1937, p. 197) he received the Desmond Fitzgerald Medal, the highest honor of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Taylor, Donald Wood |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geotechnical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Worcester |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1955 |
| Place of death | Arlington |