Gaspar Kani
Gaspar Kani (born October 16, 1910 in Franztal near Semlin (now the city of Belgrade ) in Serbia ; † September 29, 1968 in Lake Simcoe , Ontario , Canada ) was a civil engineer who worked for the Kani method (a moment compensation method in structural engineering for the Calculation of multi-story frames) has become known.
He graduated from the Technical Faculty of the University of Zagreb in 1937 with a degree in civil engineering and became an assistant there in 1938. In 1943 he became an assistant at the Technical University of Stuttgart with Otto Graf and then after the end of the Second World War with Karl Deininger .
Gaspar Kani published his method in 1949. He used it to calculate the first German prestressed concrete bridge that was built for the railroad near Heilbronn . He drowned on a sailing excursion on Lake Simcoe , Canada.
literature
- Gaspar Kani: The calculation of multi-storey frames . Wittwer, Stuttgart 1956.
- Klaus Stiglat : Civil engineers and their work . John Wiley & Sons , 2004, ISBN 3433016658
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl-Eugen Kurrer : Kani, Gaspar . In: History of structural engineering. In search of balance . 2nd, greatly expanded edition. Ernst & Sohn , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-433-03134-6 , pp. 989 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kani, Gaspar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Serbian civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Franztal , Kingdom of Serbia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 29th September 1968 |
| Place of death | Lake Simcoe , Ontario, Canada |