Hans-Georg Kempfert

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Hans-Georg Kempfert (born August 25, 1945 in Meyenburg ) is a German civil engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering.

Life

Kempfert grew up in Hamburg, attended secondary school there and then was a seaman, but soon switched to studying civil engineering at the Hamburg Engineering School and the TU Berlin. He then worked in the earthworks and foundation engineering laboratory Baukontor Lübeck in 1977/78 and in the Steinfeld engineering office in Hamburg from 1978 to 1981. He then moved to the Federal Railroad Central Office in Munich as a research assistant, where he dealt with geotechnical issues relating to the newly built high-speed lines Hanover-Würzburg and Mannheim-Stuttgart, which resulted in the first publications, particularly on slab tracks . He received his doctorate from the University of Dortmund (on the load-bearing and deformation behavior of almost rigid foundation bodies clamped in the subsoil on a level and inclined surface). His dissertation, for example, had applications in the foundation design of noise barriers.

In 1987 he became professor for geotechnical engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Konstanz. There he also founded his own engineering office (Kempfert und Partner, with locations in Würzburg, Konstanz, Hamburg) and turned to foundations and construction pits in soft soils. In 1995/96 he was professor at the TU Hamburg-Harburg and from 1996 professor at the University of Kassel .

Among other things, he deals with building in soft soils, behavior of soils under cyclical loads, pile foundations and geosynthetics. In the new edition of DIN 1054, he worked on the section on pile foundations and grouted anchors.

As a consulting engineer, his office advised on the new DB routes Cologne-Rhine / Main and Nuremberg-Ingolstadt (geotechnical engineering, implementation planning) and the high-speed Beijing-Tianjin route and on the expansion of the Airbus site in Hamburg-Finkenwerder.

On behalf of the Cologne Regional Court , Kempfert is working as an expert to determine the causes of the collapse of the Cologne city archive .

From 1982 he was a member and from 2001 chairman of the working group piles of the German Society for Geotechnics (DGGT) and published their recommendations. Since 1983 he has been a member of the excavation work group (EAB) of the DGGT and also of the safety work group. From 2002 to 2008 he was a member of the ISSMGE ( International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering ) Technical Committee TC36 Foundation Engineering in Difficult Soft Soil Condition .

He is an honorary member of the DGGT and was on its board from 2002 to 2010.

Fonts

  • with Marc Raithel: Bodenmechanik und Grundbau, 2 volumes, Berlin: Bauwerk, 2007, 2nd edition 2009
  • with Marc Raithel: Geotechnics according to Eurocode, 2 volumes, Beuth, 4th edition 2015
  • Editor: Recommendations of the Pfähle working group, Ernst, 2007, 2nd edition 2012
  • with Berhane Gebreselassie: Excavations and Foundations in Soft Soil, Springer 2006
  • with Karl Josef Witt: Pfahlgründungen, in: Grundbau-Taschenbuch , Volume 3, 7th edition, Ernst and Son 2009

literature

  • Anton Weißenbach , Marc Raithel: Professor Dr. Ing. H.-G. Kempfert 60 Years, Geotechnik, Volume 28, 2005, No. 3, p. 145

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Isringhaus, Maximilian Plück: Expert opinion probably not until 2020 - the process for the Cologne city archive is on the brink . In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . October 17, 2017 ( general-anzeiger-bonn.de [accessed April 25, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Kempfert, Hans-Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer for geotechnical engineering
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Meyenburg