Eric Reissner

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Eric Reissner (born January 5, 1913 in Aachen ; † November 1, 1996 La Jolla ) was a German-born American engineer.

Life

Reissner was the son of the engineer Hans Jacob Reissner . He studied at the TU Berlin , where he received his degree as a civil engineer in 1936. In 1937 he went to the USA and in 1938 he received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Dirk Struik ( Contributions to the Theory of Elasticity of Non-Isotropic Materials ), where he then taught mathematics. In 1947 he became a professor for applied mathematics there.

From 1948 to 1955 he was at the Langley Research Center of NASA and from 1956 to 1957 at the Palo Alto Research Center of Lockheed . In 1970 he went to the University of California, San Diego as professor of applied mechanics and engineering , where he was head of the faculty for applied mechanics and engineering in 1972/73 and retired in 1979.

In 1962 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He was a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics , the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1950), ASME, and the National Academy of Engineering (1976). In 1988 he received the ASME medal, the von Karman medal of the ASCE and in 1973 the Tymoshenko medal . He was an honorary doctor from the University of Hanover . He was an honorary member of the Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM).

Reissner had been a US citizen since 1945. He had been married to Johanna Reissner since 1938, with whom he had a son and a daughter.

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He dealt with elasticity theory (including applications in soil dynamics), theory of plates, shells and beams, dynamics of structures as well as turbulence, aerodynamics and wing theory. He developed a theory of the shear deformation of thin plates (Reissner Shear Deformation Plate Theory), which solved the boundary condition paradox of Gustav Kirchhoff and had applications on aircraft skins and floor ceilings. The Reissner variation principle in technical mechanics is named after him. Reissner was the author and co-author of over 300 scientific publications.

Fonts

  • Selected works in applied mathematics and mechanics , Jones and Bartlett 1996
  • with William Martin: Elementary Differential Equations , 1961, Dover 1986

literature

  • YC Fung, SS Penner, F. Seible, FA Williams, Memorial Tributes, National Academy of Engineering, Volume 9, 2001
  • Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 896ff and p. 1051f (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reissner Stationary, axially symmetrical vibrations of a homogeneous elastic half-space , excited by a shaking mass , Ingenieurarchiv Volume 7, 1936, pp. 381–386
personal data
SURNAME Reissner, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1996
Place of death La Jolla