Friedrich Wilhelm Bornscheuer

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Friedrich Wilhelm Bornscheuer (born May 2, 1917 in Güttersbach ; † October 3, 2015 ) was a German civil engineer (statics, steel construction). He was a university professor at the TH Stuttgart .

biography

Bornscheuer was the son of a Protestant pastor, went to school in Schotten and Mainz, studied at the TH Darmstadt from 1936 with a diploma in 1939. His teacher in steel construction was Kurt Klöppel , to whom he became an assistant in 1939. September 1940 he was drafted into the pioneers, but soon afterwards he was released again due to an eye injury (hand grenade splinters) and called in by Klöppel to investigate the collapse of the motorway bridge over the Rhine near Frankenthal. In 1941 he was again with the railway pioneers in a garrison near Hanau, before he was assigned to the Peenemünde Army Research Center in rocket development (statics of rockets in supersonic flight) from 1942 to 1945 . After the war he worked briefly in steel bridge construction (MAN Gustavsburg plant, construction of the temporary bridge over the Rhine near Worms) and received his doctorate in Darmstadt in 1946, with a dissertation (contribution to the calculation of flat, evenly pressed rectangular plates, stiffened by a longitudinal stiffener) had already started in 1943. From 1946 to 1949 he worked again in rocket development, this time in France (he had refused an offer from Wernher von Braun to go to the USA with other rocket specialists in 1945 for family reasons). He then worked for nine years in pipeline, container and apparatus construction.

In 1958 he became a professor at the University of Stuttgart (formerly TH Stuttgart), where he headed the Institute for Structural Analysis from 1968 to 1983. During teaching in 1958 (also at the suggestion of Fritz Leonhardt , who also became a professor in Stuttgart and worked closely with Bornscheuer), it replaced the previously common subdivision of statics in teaching according to the material used (steel, concrete). He was known for his skills as a teacher and formed his own structural engineering school in Stuttgart. After retiring, he continued to work as a checking engineer and structural planner in the engineering office of his son Berd-Friedrich Bornscheuer.

Bornscheuer saw himself as a practitioner and steel constructor. He made contributions to the mechanics of the bar structures (inclusion of the arching force torsion), complying with an old demand by August Föppl to include torsion constants in the panels for cross-sections of steel construction, which was also included in the corresponding DIN standards, and dealt intensively with shell buckling , which is reflected in DIN 18800 (Part 4).

With Fritz Leonhardt and Volker Hahn (from the construction company Züblin ) he founded the computing institute for construction (RIB) in Stuttgart (today RIB Software AG) in 1961 . The initiative came from Hahn, who spoke to Leonhardt and Leonhardt suggested that the structural engineering professor in Stuttgart Bornscheuer be involved.

Wolfhardt Andrä von Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner was his first doctoral student in 1963 and his son Hans-Peter Andrä was his last in 1982.

Fonts (selection)

  • Structural engineering, in: Viat Review of German Science 1939–1946. Applied Mathematics 2, Wiesbaden: Diederichsche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1948, pp. 13–52
  • Systematic representation of the bending and twisting process with special consideration of the arching force torsion, Der Stahlbau, Volume 21, 1952, pp. 1-9
  • Collection of examples and formulas for calculating the stresses of thin-walled bars with a cross-section that is restricted from arching, Volume 21, 1952, pp. 225-232, Volume 22, pp. 32-44
  • Tables of the torsion parameters for the rolled sections of DIN 1025-1027, Der Stahlbau, Volume 30, 1961, pp. 81-82

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice
  2. ↑ Bornscheuer, Stahlbau, Volume 21, 1952, pp. 1-9
  3. ^ Kurrer, History of the theory of structures, 2008, p. 435
  4. ^ Kurrer, History of the theory of structures, 2008, p. 646
  5. ↑ Ramm and Bischof are his successors at the chair for structural engineering in Stuttgart
  6. ^ Also in Bauingenieur, Volume 95, 2000, pp. 615–621
personal data
SURNAME Bornscheuer, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer (statics, steel construction)
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Güttersbach
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 2015