Ernst Melan

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Ernst Melan (born November 16, 1890 in Brno , † December 10, 1963 in Vienna ) was an Austrian civil engineer and university professor . He was rector of the Vienna University of Technology .

Life

Ernst Melan studied civil engineering at the German Technical University in Prague , where he received his doctorate in 1917 with a thesis on the torsion of rotating bodies. From 1916 to 1918 he worked as an engineer at the Imperial and Royal Lieutenancy in Graz , then at the bridge building company von Waagner-Biro . In 1920/21 he worked at the strength laboratory of the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg , after which he was department head at Waagner-Biro until 1923. In 1922 he qualified as a professor at the Vienna University of Technology in the field of elasticity theory , and in 1923 he was appointed associate professor for structural mechanics and strength theory at the German Technical University in Prague.

In 1925 he moved to the Technical University of Vienna, where he worked as a full professor for structural engineering and structural engineering in steel and timber construction until his retirement in 1962 . In the academic years 1946/47 and 1947/48 he was also dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering there, in the academic year 1952/53 he was elected rector of the Vienna University of Technology . During his tenure, the thermal power laboratory on Getreidemarkt was restored and the top floor of the main building was rebuilt according to the ideas of the architecture faculty.

In his scientific work, in addition to structural engineering and elasticity theory, he also dealt with plasticity theory and questions of thermoelasticity, each using subject-specific mathematical methods. In his work on the plasticity of the spatial continuum in 1938 he formulated his adaptation theorem .

His father was the civil engineer Joseph Melan , his brother Herbert Melan (1893–1960) was also a professor at the Vienna University of Technology. At the Vienna University of Technology, a lecture hall in the main building on Karlsplatz was named after Ernst Melan.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • 1927: The ordinary and partial difference equations in structural engineering , together with Friedrich Bleich , Julius Springer-Verlag Berlin
  • 1938: On the plasticity of the spatial continuum , Ingenieur-Archiv 9
  • 1942: The exact calculation of support grids , together with Robert Schindler, Springer-Verlag Vienna
  • 1947/50: Building bridges , volumes 2–3, Deuticke-Verlag Vienna
  • 1950: Introduction to structural engineering
  • 1953: Thermal stress , together with Heinz Parkus

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Knittel:  Melan, Josef. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , pp. 738-740 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Josef Melan in the German biography
  3. ↑ Herbert Melan in the German biography
  4. ↑ HS 13 Ernst Melan lecture hall - TU Vienna . Retrieved February 20, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Melan, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian civil engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1963
Place of death Vienna