Fred H. Kulhawy

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Fred Howard Kulhawy (born September 8, 1943 in Topeka , Kansas ) is an American civil engineer ( geotechnical engineering ).

Kulhawy studied civil engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (Bachelor in 1964, Master's degree in 1966) and was from 1966 at the University of California, Berkeley , where he received his doctorate in 1969. In 1969 he became an assistant professor at Syracuse University , an associate professor in 1976 and a professor at Cornell University in 1981 . He was visiting professor at the University of Cambridge (1985 as Fulbright Scholar), the Universities of Sydney and Hawaii, the National University of Singapore, the University of Queensland and the University of Hong Kong.

He dealt with numerical modeling and safety analysis in geotechnics, but also with tests of geotechnical constructions on a large scale, with stress-deformation behavior of soils and rock and with foundations.

He worked for Storch Engineers in 1966, from 1969 to 1971 as an associate at Raamot Associates and from the 1970s as a freelance geotechnical consulting engineer.

In 2005 he received the Terzaghi Award . In 1982 he received the Walter Huber Research Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Norman Medal. In 1996 he was Casagrande Lecturer at the Boston Society of Civil Engineers. He is a Distinguished Member of the ASCE.

Fonts

  • Embankments and Excavations. In: John T. Christian , Chandrakant S. Desai (Eds.): Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering. McGraw Hill, 1977.
  • as editor: Recent developments in geotechnical engineering for hydro projects. ASCE 1981.
  • Drilled shaft foundations. In: Fang (Ed.): Foundation Engineering Handbook. Reinhold Van Nostrand, 1991.
  • with Richard E. Goodman : Foundations in Rock. In: Ground Engineers Reference Book. Bell / Butterworths, 1987.
  • as editor: Foundation Engineering: Current Principles and Practice. (GSP 22), 2 volumes, ASCE 1989.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science. Thomson Gale, 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Kulhawy, Fred H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kulhawy, Fred Howard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American civil engineer (geotechnical engineering)
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Topeka , Kansas