Emil Staudacher

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Emil Staudacher (born December 19, 1898 in Basel , † September 16, 1977 in Zurich ) was a Swiss civil engineer and specialist in timber construction.

Life

Emil Staudacher studied at the ETH Zurich from 1917 to 1921 and graduated as a civil engineer . He initially worked in civil engineering and hydraulic engineering, for example in 1925 for the construction office of the Nordostschweizerische Kraftwerke (NOK) in Baden . Then he returned to the ETH, where he in 1935 with a thesis on wood as a building material for Dr. sc. techn. received his doctorate.

From 1936 to 1942 he was head of the department for wood investigations at the Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt (EMPA) . In the autumn of 1942 he set up his own business in Zurich with an engineering office for civil engineering, hydraulic engineering and wooden structures, which in 1969 became Dr. Staudacher & Siegenthaler AG emerged . He retired on June 30, 1970.

plant

Bethanienkirche in Frankfurt
Pestalozzi School in Skopje

Staudacher held several patents in the field of wood construction. The type A of the Bartning-Notkirche goes back to him . This form with a wooden pointed barrel vault and a brick chancel, which Otto Bartning developed on the basis of a design by Staudacher, was only built once in its original form due to the more elaborate roof structure with the Bethanienkirche in Frankfurt am Main in Germany, and in a modified form as the Swiss church in Emden . The Maranathakerk in The Hague was built based on this design.

When the number of wooden structures declined in the 1950s, the focus of his activity shifted to reinforced concrete and steel structures. In addition, he was a test engineer for the construction of the hydropower plants in Birsfelden , Säckingen , Rheinau , Schaffhausen , Aarau and Baden-Aue .

For the construction of the Pestalozzi School (architect: Alfred Roth ), part of the Swiss help in the reconstruction of Skopje after the earthquake of 1963, Staudacher developed, together with Carl Hubacher, an integral structural earthquake protection in the form of a floating bearing, which has been used many times since then.

buildings

Fonts

  • The building material wood: Contributions to the knowledge of the material properties and the construction elements. Diss. ETH Zurich 1936. Digitized
  • Structural evaluation and sorting of sawn timber. 1939.

literature

  • Rolf Siegenthaler: † Emil Staudacher. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung: weekly for architecture, engineering, machine technology. 95 (1977), p. 720. doi: 10.5169 / seals-73466

Web links

  • Patent CH253662 : supporting structure. Published on March 31, 1948 , inventor: Emil Staudacher. ‌
  • Patent CH256421 : grate construction. Published on August 31, 1948 , inventor: Emil Staudacher. ‌
  • Patent CH450675 : Supporting structures to protect them against vibrations in their foundations. Published on January 31, 1968 , inventors: Carl Hubacher, Emil Staudacher. ‌

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professional stations mainly based on Rolf Siegenthaler: Dr. Emil Staudacher retired. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung 1970, p. 712. ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Jörg Rehm, Sabrina Kronthale: Sacred building in times of want - Otto Bartnings emergency church building program. Munich 2019, p. 20.
  3. ↑ Julia Ricker: Otto Bartning and his churches: Spirituality in series. In: Monuments . Magazine for monument culture in Germany. Edition April 2016.
  4. ↑ Bethanienkirche
  5. ^ Maranathakerk (Maranatha Church) , accessed March 2, 2020
  6. ^ Alberto Lago, Dario Trabucco, Antony Wood: Damping Technologies for Tall Buildings: Theory, Design Guidance and Case Studies. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2018, ISBN 978-0-12815964-4 , p. 29.
personal data
SURNAME Staudacher, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss civil engineer and specialist in timber construction
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1977
Place of death Zurich