George Geoffrey Meyerhof

George Geoffrey (Gottfried) Meyerhof CM (born May 29, 1916 in Kiel , † January 2, 2003 in Halifax ) was a German-born Canadian civil engineer.

He was the son of Nobel Prize winner Otto Meyerhof and studied civil engineering at the University of London. After graduating in 1938, he worked for several years in an engineering firm before he received his doctorate from the University of London . From 1946 he was at the Building Research Station, where he carried out fundamental research work in geotechnical engineering, in particular on the load-bearing capacity of foundations and ground failure, which earned him a D. Sc. PhD degrees from the University of London. In 1953 he emigrated to Canada and became chief engineer at the Foundation of Canada Engineering Corporation in Montreal , where he designed bridges and buildings, among other things.

Meyerhof is known for its load-bearing capacity formulas, which have also found their way into various national standards. Later he was particularly concerned with the load-bearing capacity of pile foundations.

He was an honorary member of the ICE (2000) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Society of Engineering. In 1999 he received the Order of Canada , the Centennial Medal of Canada, and the Queen's Silver and Golden Jubilee Medals. In 1991 he received the Terzaghi Award and in 1975 he gave the Terzaghi Lecture ( Bearing capacity and settlement of pile foundations , J. Geotechnical Engineering Division ASCE, Volume 102, 1976, GT 3, pp. 195-228). He was the first president of the Canadian Geotechnical Society. He has received several honorary doctorates ( Technical University of Aachen , University of Ghent , Technical University of Nova Scotia, McMaster University , Queen's University (Kingston) , Concordia University ( Ottawa )).

He was married twice, most recently to Ingrid Goering Meyerhof, and had three sons.

source

• Obituary in the Halifax Herald, Jan. 5, 2003

Fonts

• The ultimate bearing capacity of foundations , Geotechnique, Vol. 2, 1950, pp. 301-333
• Influence of Roughness of Base and Ground-Water Conditions on the Ultimate Bearing Capacity of Foundations , Géotechnique, Volume 5, 1955, pp. 227-242
• Some recent research on the bearing capacity of foundations , Canadian Geotech. J., Volume 1, 1963, pp. 16-26
• Compaction of sands and bearing capacity of piles , J. Geotech. Closely. Division ASCE, Volume 85, SM 6, 1959, p. 1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1] (biography)