Harald S. Müller

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Harald Siegfried Wilhelm Müller (born December 16, 1951 in Osterburken ) is a German civil engineer and emeritus university professor and honorary president of the International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib). He is a publicly appointed and sworn expert for the areas of concrete and masonry construction, building materials and building physics ( IHK Karlsruhe ).

biography

In 1971 Müller graduated from the Nicolaus-Kistner-Gymnasium Mosbach . He then studied physics at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) , but then switched to civil engineering and completed his studies as a graduate engineer . From 1979 to 1989 he was initially a research assistant and later a senior engineer at the Institute for Solid Construction and Building Material Technology at the University of Karlsruhe. In 1986 he completed his doctorate as Dr.-Ing. with distinction. His dissertation dealt with models for predicting the deformation behavior (creep) of concrete.

In 1989, Müller moved to the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin, where he became head of the building materials specialist group. In 1990 he was appointed director and professor and from 1992 was deputy head of the construction department at BAM. After previously declining an offer from TU Dresden , he was appointed full professor at the University of Karlsruhe in 1995 (later Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)), where he worked until his scheduled retirement in 2017. In addition, from 2000 to 2013 he was Dean of Studies for Civil Engineering.

In 1998 Müller founded an engineering office together with Martin Günter, which merged in 2006 with the office of Prof. Eibl + Partner and since then has operated under the name SMP Ingenieure im Bauwesen GmbH with its headquarters in Karlsruhe and a branch in Dresden.

Müller has been married to the architect Cornelia Müller-Hubschneider for a second time since 2002. He has two sons and two step-sons.

Research priorities

The main focus of his research was in particular the topics, concrete technology, material / failure mechanisms as well as building maintenance / life cycle management. Through an improved understanding of chemical and physical processes at the micro level in combination with the use of rheological and / or numerical models, he and his doctoral students succeeded in realistically forecasting various deformation and damage processes. The use of cross-scale methods is not limited to the modeling of corrosive processes. By creating a mechanical model on the particle level, it was also possible to predict electrophysical interactions between the individual components of fresh concrete. For the first time, this opened up an analytical approach to concrete technology, which had been largely empirical until then.

His research on the creep and shrinkage behavior of concrete is internationally known . The principles he developed were incorporated into the fib Model Codes 1990 and 2010, were adopted by numerous countries in their concrete standards and are anchored in the German and European concrete construction standards. In the last few years before his retirement, Müller turned in particular to sustainability research on concrete and made contributions to the quantification of sustainability at the building material level. He has received numerous awards for lectures and publications (Best Paper Awards).

Memberships

Müller is a member of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), the International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib) and the board of the German Committee for Reinforced Concrete . In 2015/2016 he was the president of fib . He was a member of the Senate Committees for Collaborative Research Centers of the German Research Foundation and from 2012 to 2020 an elected specialist board for the field of building materials science , building chemistry and building physics .

Awards

  • Ludwig Lenz Foundation, Award for outstanding academic performance, University of Karlsruhe (TH), 1980
  • Honorary Senator Huber Prize, Research Prize, University of Karlsruhe (TH), 1988
  • Karl-Friedrich-Nebenius-Medal, Karlsruhe Chamber of Commerce and Industry , 2017
  • Appointment as Honorary President of the International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib), 2017
  • Admission to the Russian Academy of Engineering , 2018
  • Appointment as Distinguished Foreign Expert , Shandong Province (China), 2019
  • Appointed honorary member of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), 2019

Publications (selection)

Müller published over 400 technical and scientific publications. Here is a selection:

  • with M. Günter, HK Hilsdorf: Repair of historically important concrete and reinforced concrete structures . In: Beton- und Stahlbetonbau, Volume 95 (2000), Issue 3, pp. 143-157 and Issue 6, pp. 360–364
  • with V. Kvitsel, V .: Creep and Shrinkage of Concrete. Basics of the new DIN 1045 and approaches for practice . In: Beton- und Stahlbetonbau, Volume 97 (2002), Issue 1, pp. 8-19
  • To the building material of the future . In: Built Visions, 100 Years of the German Committee for Reinforced Concrete (DAfStb) . 1st edition, Beuth Verlag, 2007, pp. 195-221.
  • with M. Haist: Concrete . In: Structural Concrete - Textbook on Behavior, Design and Performance . fib Bulletin 51, International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib), Lausanne, 2009, pp. 35-149.
  • with I. Anders, R. Breiner, M. Vogel: Concrete. Treatment of types and properties in MC 2010 . In: Structural Concrete, Vol. 14 (2013), No. 4, pp. 320–334
  • with M. Haist, M. Vogel: Assessment of the sustainability potential of concrete and concrete structures considering their environmental impact, performance and lifetime . In: Construction and Building Materials, Vol. 67 Part C (2014), pp. 321–337
  • with U. Wiens: Beton . In: Beton-Kalender 2016: Beton im Hochbau; Silos and containers (Eds: K. Bergmeister, F. Fingerloos, J.-D. Wörner), 105th year, Verlag Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 2016, pp. 1–168

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gabriele (IMB) Schmitt: IMB staff. October 23, 2019, accessed April 7, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Honorary Members. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Awards. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ DFG - GEPRIS - Professor Dr.-Ing. Harald S. Müller. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
  5. ^ Ludwig-Lenz-Stiftung List of award winners on the university website. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  6. ^ Huber Prize List of the winners on the university website. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  7. ↑ Awards List of all award winners and honorary members on the fib website. Accessed April 7, 2020. (English)
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Harald S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Harald Siegfried Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterburken