Harry Poulos

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Harry George Poulos (born April 27, 1940 in Katoomba ) is a Greek - Australian civil engineer for geotechnical engineering , internationally known as an expert in pile foundations .

Poulos studied at the University of Sydney , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1961 and his doctorate in 1965. 1964/65 he was an engineer at MacDonald Wagner and Priddle . From 1965 he was a lecturer , from 1969 senior lecturer, from 1972 reader and from 1982 professor at the University of Sydney, where he is now professor emeritus. In 1976 he received a PhD D. Sc. in Sydney.

He was Rankine Lecturer ( Pile behavior- theory and application ,) and in 2005 Terzaghi Lecturer ( Pile behavior- consequences of geological and construction imperfections ). Poulos received the J. James R. Croes Medal of the ASCE in 1972, the ASCE State of the Art of Civil Engineering Award in 1995 , has been an honorary member of the ASCE since 2010, received the Australian Centenary Medal, the Warren Medal and the Warren Prize in 2003 (1985) from the Australian Institute of Civil Engineers and in 2007 the Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award from ASCE. In 1993 he became a member of the Order of Australia and in 1988 he received the John Jaeger Memorial Award. He is a member of the Australian Academy of Sciences (1988) and the Australian Academy of Science and Engineering (1996). In 2003 he was named Australian Civil Engineer of the Year.

Poulos chairs the Australian Pile Foundation Standards Committee (2010), served on the Council of the Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS) from 1980 to 1995, was its Chairman from 1982 to 1984, and is on the Council of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), he was Vice President for the Australia-Asia region from 1989 to 1994. Since 2002 there has been a Poulos Lecture in his honor at the Sydney Section of the AGS.

He was involved in various foundation projects around the world, for example pile foundations for high-rise buildings in Dubai ( Burj al Arab , Emirates Towers , Burj Dubai , the tallest high-rise building in the world, where he carried out the geotechnical test), the Docklands Project in Melbourne or the 700 km long Egnatia Odos Motorway across Greece (2001 to 2005), where earthquake safety played a role in particular. Other projects included advice on various offshore structures such as drilling rigs.

He has been with Coffey Geotechnics since 1989, where he held various management positions, including a member of the board from 1991 to 1993. Today he is Senior Principal there (2010).

Fonts

  • with EH Davis: Elastic solutions for soil and rock mechanics. Wiley 1974.
  • with EH Davis: Pile foundation analysis and design. Wiley 1980, Krieger 1990.
  • Marine Geotechnics. Unwin Hyman, Boston / London 1988.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Geotechnique, Volume 39, 1989, pp. 365-415
  2. ^ ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Volume 131, 2005, Issue 5, pp. 538-563, the 40th Terzaghi Lecture