Gerhard Sedlacek

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Gerhard Sedlacek (born November 17, 1939 in Rheinhausen ; † February 1, 2012 ) was a German civil engineer specializing in steel construction .

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After graduating from the Friedrich Krupp Gymnasium in Duisburg , Sedlacek studied at the TH Karlsruhe and obtained his diploma in 1964. He was then assistant to Karlheinz Roik at the TU Berlin at the Institute for Steel Construction, where he received his doctorate in 1967 with the dissertation Systematic representation of the bending and twisting process for prismatic rods with thin-walled cross-sections, taking profile deformation into account .

From 1969 to 1971 Sedlacek was taken over as bridge construction engineer at MAN's Gustavsburg plant and then headed the bridge construction department at Krupp in Rheinhausen until 1976 . Finally, from 1976 until his retirement in 2005, he was appointed professor of steel construction at RWTH Aachen University. There he dealt, among other things, with building with light metals, plastics and glass, with wind engineering, load assumptions, earthquake safety. Sedlacek also initiated the establishment of a center for metallic construction (ZMB). He also headed engineering offices in Aachen and Berlin .

From 1993 to 1995 Sedlacek was editor of the journal Der Stahlbau . Since 1996 he has been a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts , the German Committee for Steel Construction and various standards committees including the Eurocodes for structural engineering. In the European Convention for Steel Construction he was long chairman of TC 1 (safety) and in 2007 he became director for European research.

In 2003 Sedlacek received the Charles Massonnet Prize and was made an honorary doctorate from the University of Liège . A year later he was honored with the German Steel Construction Award.

Gerhard Sedlacek found his final resting place in the Laurentiusstrasse cemetery (Laurensberg).

literature

  • Horst J. Bossenmayer, Obituary in Concrete and Reinforced Concrete Construction , Volume 107, April 2012, pp. 274–275

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Eugen Kurrer : Center for Metallic Structures at RWTH Aachen . In: Stahlbau 71 (2002), no. 12, pp. 917–918.
personal data
SURNAME Sedlacek, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg-Rheinhausen
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 2012