Helmut Eggert

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Helmut Eggert (born July 23, 1935 in Molitz ; † September 1, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German civil engineer .

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Helmut Eggert, the son of an expropriated “large farmer”, came to Heidelberg from the GDR in 1953 , in order to obtain recognition for his GDR high school diploma there under difficult circumstances after the evening high school. During this time he completed a three-year apprenticeship as a heating engineer .

From 1956 to 1962 he studied civil engineering at the TH Darmstadt and wrote a diploma thesis at the chair for solid construction headed by Alfred Mehmel . By In 1959 admission to the studienstiftung , Eggert was able to improve its economic situation and was in 1965 with one of Kurt clapper supervised dissertation in the field of shell theory of the TH Darmstadt Dr.-Ing. PhD. He then moved to Lenzbau as a structural engineer , where he dealt, among other things, with the static verification of assembly conditions when building composite steel bridges. At Wayss & Freytag , Eggert dealt with problems of solid construction from 1967 to 1969 . During this time his essay on the calculation of new multi-legged towers with intermediate platforms was written. In 1969 Eggert joined the newly founded Institute for Structural Engineering (today the German Institute for Structural Engineering ) in West Berlin , where he was initially entrusted with approvals in the fields of plastics , steel construction , precast reinforced concrete parts and warehouses . Since the creation of new units, Eggert was responsible for steel construction and storage at the Institute for Structural Engineering from 1971 to 2000. As head of the metal construction and warehouse department, he was responsible for numerous approvals for space frameworks, trapezoidal and cassette profiles, container constructions, composite ceilings, innovative fasteners, stainless and high-strength steels and various warehouse constructions.

With Jupp Grote and Wolfgang Kauschke, Eggert published the monograph Lager im Bauwesen and offered a course of the same name at the Faculty of Construction and Transportation (civil engineering) at the TU Berlin . This monograph was published in an expanded form in English in 2002 and as a complete German revision in the 3rd edition in 2013.

Eggert invented the DIN 4141 series of standards for bearings in the building industry , which served as a model for the EN 1337 series of European standards. In addition, he suggested the standards on trapezoidal profiles (DIN 18807) and thin-walled containers (DIN 18914).

Eggert is familiar with steel construction practice through his annotated steel construction rules from the first (1999) to the 9th year (2007) of the steel construction calendar published by Ernst & Sohn . He dealt constructively and critically with administrative science. His essays and heckling are well-known in the journal Bautechnik, which Doris Greiner-Mai ran from 1992 to 2010 .

Eggert also dealt with the history of storage technology. For this purpose, he gave a lecture on February 6, 2003 at the Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin as part of the series Practices and Potentials of Building Technology History organized by Karl-Eugen Kurrer and Werner Lorenz . He also supported Volker Wetzk's dissertation on the history of bridge bearings from 1850 to 1950.

Works

  • Helmut Eggert: Deformation calculation of plastic rods subject to bending and normal force. In: plastic construction. 1. Vol. 4, 1971, pp. 157-160.
  • N. Ebeling, Helmut Eggert: Rules and regulations of steel construction - review and inventory. In: Stahlbau , Vol. 54, Issue 4, 1985, pp. 97-102.
  • Helmut Eggert: Pseudo problems due to new regulations in steel construction. In: Steel construction. 57th vol., No. 10, 1988, pp. 313-316.
  • Helmut Eggert: Comments on the new version of the adaptation guideline for steel construction. In: Steel construction. 68th vol., No. 2, 1999, pp. 120-124.
  • Helmut Eggert: Summary - Comments from a retiree after more than 30 years of service for building supervision. In: Structural Engineering. 77th vol., No. 10, 2000, pp. 763-768.
  • Helmut Eggert: Bridge bearings and their regulation - an inventory. In: Structural Engineering. Volume 78, Issue 1, 2001, pp. 52-59.
  • Helmut Eggert: spherical plain bearings. In: Structural Engineering. 79th vol., No. 2, 2002, pp. 84-90.
  • Helmut Eggert: Pot storage. In: Structural Engineering. 79th vol., No. 11, 2002, pp. 750-760.
  • Helmut Eggert: Reinforced elastomer bearings - level of knowledge and deficits. In: Structural Engineering. 83rd vol., No. 1, 2006, pp. 6-15.

literature

  • Ulrich Schulz: Helmut Eggert 65 years. In: Steel construction. 69th vol., No. 7, 2000, pp. 574-575.
  • Helmut Eggert: From chaos to rule. Heckling and looking back from a civil engineer. Self-published, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049734-6 .
  • Karl-Eugen Kurrer: Review by “From chaos to rule” with biographical details on Helmut Eggert. In: Steel construction. 84th year, issue 12, 2015, p. 1013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Eggert: A contribution to the problem of the minimum stiffness in shells (short version). In: Steel construction. 34th vol., No. 12, 1965, pp. 353-358.
  2. ↑ Helmut Eggert: The statics of a continuously manufactured composite structure - a quick error estimation of simplified composite bridge calculations. In: The civil engineer. Vol. 44, Issue 12, 1969, pp. 253-258.
  3. ↑ Helmut Eggert: Simplified calculation of multi-legged towers with intermediate platforms. In: The construction technology. Volume 45, Issue 12, 1968, pp. 400-403.
  4. ^ Helmut Eggert, Jupp Grote, Wolfgang Kauschke: Camp in the building industry. Design, calculation, regulations . Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-433-00595-8 .
  5. ^ Helmut Eggert, Wolfgang Kauschke: Structural bearings. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-433-01238-5 .
  6. ↑ Tobias Block, Helmut Eggert, Wolfgang Kauschke: Camp in the building industry. 3rd, completely revised Edition. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-433-02921-3 .
  7. ^ Karl-Eugen Kurrer: Steel + Concrete = Reinforced Concrete Construction? Steel + concrete = reinforced concrete! The emergence of the triad of administration, science and industry in reinforced concrete construction in Germany. In: Beton- und Stahlbetonbau , Volume 92, Issue 1, 1997, pp. 13-18 u. Issue 2, pp. 45–49 (here p. 45f.)
  8. ↑ Volker Wetzk: bridge bearings. 1850-1950 . Dissertation Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg 2010. Ed .: Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg . ( kobv.de [accessed on August 2, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Eggert, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Molitz
DATE OF DEATH 1st September 2019
Place of death Berlin