Guido Oberti

Guido Oberti (* 1907 ; † 2003 ) was an Italian civil engineer.

Oberti studied at the Milan Polytechnic , where he received his doctorate in both applied mathematics and civil engineering. With his teacher Arturo Danusso , he developed a test laboratory for concrete structures, especially dams, in Bergamo (ISAC) in the 1930s , from which in 1951 the ISMES (Istituto Sperimentale Modelli E Strutture), financed by the electricity industry (Edison), was (where many large dam projects were tested were). After Danusso's death, he became President of ISMES in 1968. Oberti was director of the institute until he became professor at the Turin Polytechnic in the 1960s.

Together with Danusso, he developed elastic test models (in contrast to the test methods based on the ultimate load-bearing capacity of Eduardo Torroja Miret in Madrid). They worked closely with Pier Luigi Nervi , who previously had many of his concrete structures tested on models at Oberti's Institute.

In 1983 he received the International Award of Merit in Structural Engineering . In 1981 he became an honorary member of the American Concrete Institute . He headed the Italian IABSE group for many years and became an honorary member of the IABSE in 1979.

literature

• Tom F. Peters: IABSE. The first 80 years 1929–2009, IABSE 2011, p. 153, google books

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ISMES