Eberhard Pelke

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Eberhard Pelke

Eberhard Pelke (born May 26, 1955 in Mannheim ) is a German civil engineer and historian of structural engineering.

Education

Pelke, who grew up and lived in Mainz , attended the high school at the Electoral Palace . After graduating from high school and completing his military service, he studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt in the field of structural engineering , which he completed in 1983 with the diploma thesis "Alternative solution for an existing building in composite construction with special consideration of the fire resistance" with Professor Otto Jungbluth and rated it with a grade of one has been.

Professional background

Pelke gained his first practical experience at Lahmeyer International in Frankfurt am Main as part of project processing for tunnel structures. In 1984 he moved to the now defunct engineering firm BGS, which was taken over by SWECO , and in 1988 to the Institute for Supporting Structures and Structural Design at the University of Stuttgart . Depending on his place of residence in Mainz, he was greeted by the fact that in 1990 he was offered the position of head of department for statics, technical regulations and building design at the Hessian State Office for Roads and Transport in Wiesbaden , now Hessen Mobil . His technical competence and leadership qualities promoted Pelke's professional career, so that in 1994 he was appointed deputy head of the engineering design department . This was followed in 1999 as acting head of the department, which he took over in 2001 at the same time as heading the building technology and civil engineering department and, from 2010, heading the management and maintenance department. At the same time, he was deputy head of the planning, construction and maintenance department from 2006 to 2011 . Pelke has been the head of the engineering structure planning department since 2012 . In this position, Eberhard Pelke deals with the principles and technical regulations of bridge, tunnel and civil engineering, the approval of structural drafts, structural preliminary and draft planning including the necessary recalculations and the examination of implementation documents.

research

For more than a decade, Eberhard Pelke has worked with various research centers and engineering offices. The range of topics focuses on the repair and sustainability of steel and composite bridges as well as prestressed concrete bridges . The latest example is the upgrading of the Nibelungen Bridge in Worms , which he and Tilman Zichner, partner at König Heunisch Planungsgesellschaft, reported on in the magazine Beton- und Stahlbetonbau until 2012 . In the same issue he published the results of the research project on the repair of viaducts with external prestressing together with scientists from the University of Stuttgart, a representative of the engineering office Schömig Ingenieure and one of his colleagues. Eberhard Pelke knows how to organize the cooperation between science, consulting engineers and construction management in such a way that the quality of the infrastructure systems in his country is not only maintained and further increased, but also the historical intrinsic value of the respective engineering structure is discussed.

Eberhard Pelke's work on the history of building technology is based on two motivations. On the one hand, he wants to bring the work and person of civil engineers closer to a society that is critical of technology, for example with his publications on Hellmut Homberg and Willy Stöhr . On the other hand, he is interested in the history of structural engineering as a tool used in everyday engineering - in order to understand, evaluate and protect buildings, to improve them according to their load-bearing capacity, or to use historical knowledge to identify defects that can lead to difficulties. Last but not least, for him the history of construction technology must also provide answers to the question of what constitutes meaningful progress today. Together with Werner Lorenz , he examined the historical value of such structures as the Main Bridge Kostheim . He published studies of cable-stayed bridges , prestressed concrete bridges as well as steel and steel composite bridges with a focus on the history of construction . For some time now, Eberhard Pelke has been dealing with the historical development of assembly technologies in steel bridge construction.

Together with Eugen Brühwiler from the EPFL , he set up the “Construction History” working group of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) and chaired it until the end of 2017. The international group is committed to integrating structural engineering history into the IABSE symposia. With Brühwiler, Eberhard Pelke published Volume 15 of the "Structural Engineering Document" (SED) on the status, relevance and practical implementation of the history of structural engineering in concrete projects. The report by Werner Lorenz and Karl-Eugen Kurrer and in the journal Stahlbau give an appraisal of his work in the history of construction technology .

literature

  • E. Pelke, W. Ramm , K. Stiglat: History of bridges, time of engineers. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-00-017894-5 , p. 83.
  • Karl-Eugen Kurrer, Eberhard Pelke, Klaus Stiglat: Unity of science and art in bridge building - life and work (Part I). In: Bautechnik, Volume 86, 2009, Issue 10, pp. 847–655.
  • Karl-Eugen Kurrer, Eberhard Pelke, Klaus Stiglat: Unity of science and art in bridge building - His contribution to the theory of bridge building (Part II). In: Structural Engineering. 86th year, 2009, issue 12, pp. 794–809.
  • Karl-Eugen Kurrer, Eberhard Pelke, Klaus Stiglat: Unity of science and art in bridge building - the work (part III). In: Structural Engineering. 87th year, 2010, issue 2, pp. 86–115.
  • Eberhard Pelke, Alwin Dieter: The new Rhine bridge Wiesbaden-Schierstein . Hessen Mobil, Road and Traffic Management, Wiesbaden 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BGS Ingenieurgesellschaft für Bau- und Verkehrwesen GmbH. Address book Frankfurt a. Main, accessed May 25, 2018 .
  2. ^ Tilman Zichner. From Structurae, accessed on May 25, 2018 .
  3. ^ Shareholder until 2012. König Heunisch Planungsgesellschaft, accessed on May 25, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Concrete and reinforced concrete construction. Ernst & Sohn, accessed on May 25, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Pelke, E., Zichner, T .: Enhancing the Nibelungen Bridge in Worms. In: Beton- und Stahlbetonbau 110 (2015), no. 2, pp. 113–130.
  6. ↑ Novák, B., Pelke, E., Boros, V., Reinhard, J., Berger, D .: End anchoring when strengthening bridges with external prestressing. In: Beton- und Stahlbetonbau 110 (2015), H. 2, pp. 138–154.
  7. ^ Pelke, E., Kurrer, K.-E .: The art of major bridge-building - Hellmut Homberg and his contribution to multiple cable-stayed spans. In: Steel Construction - Design and Research 5 (2012), No. 4, pp. 251-263.
  8. ↑ Willy Stoehr - an engineering life between dictatorship and democracy. The National Academies of Sciences, accessed May 25, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Pelke, E .: Willy Stöhr - An engineer life between dictatorship and democracy. In: Beton- und Stahlbetonbau 106 (2011), no. 5, pp. 332–342.
  10. ^ Pelke, E., Kurrer, K.-E .: The Development of Multi-Cable-Stayed Bridges. In: Nuts & Bolts of Construction History. Culture, Technology and Society, Vol. 3. Edited by R. Carvais, A. Guillerme, V. Nègre, J. Sakarovitch, pp. 657-665. Paris: Editions A. et J. Picard 2012
  11. ↑ Pelke, E .: Pre-Stressing of Bridges in Germany up to 1965 Part I and Part II. In: Engineering History and Heritage, Vol. 164 (2011), issue 2, pp. 99-108 and issue 4, pp. 211-218
  12. ↑ Pelke, E., Kurrer, K.-E .: On the history of the development of composite steel construction. In: Stahlbau 85 (2016), no. 11, pp. 764–780.
  13. ↑ Biography and current work. École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, accessed on May 25, 2015 (English).
  14. ↑ Pelke, E., Brühwiler, E. (Ed.): Engineering History and Heritage Structures - Viewpoints and Approaches. Structural Engineering Documents 15. Zurich: International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) 2017
  15. ↑ International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering. German group of IABSE, accessed on May 25, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Pelke, E., Brühwiler, E. (Ed.): Engineering History and Heritage Structures - Viewpoints and Approaches. Structural Engineering Documents 15. Zurich: International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) 2017.
  17. ^ Kurrer, K.-E., Lorenz, W .: Construction History in Germany. In: Construction History. A European Meridian, ed. By A. Becchi, R. Carvais and J. Sakarovitch, pp. 141-175. Paris: Association francophone d'histoire de la construction 2015
  18. ^ Karl-Eugen Kurrer: Eberhard Pelke 60 years. Steel construction, accessed on May 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Pelke, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim