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Henry Adrian "Packy" Schade (born December 3, 1900 in Saint Paul (Minnesota) , † August 12, 1992 ) was an American naval officer (most recently Rear Admiral ) and shipbuilding engineer. He is known for the technical direction of the construction program of the American aircraft carriers during World War II.

biography

Schade studied at the US Naval Academy from 1919, graduating with honors in 1923. He was then a radio officer on the battleship USS California (BB-44) . He then trained as a shipbuilding engineer at the Naval Academy in Annapolis and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master's degree in 1928 (Deformation and stresses in pipe bends). He then went to the Brooklyn and Mare Island shipyards in Vallejo . In 1931 he joined the design bureau of the Navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair and was promoted to lieutenant. He came to the David Taylor experimental tank and was sent to study at the TU Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1937 (statics of the ship bottom under water pressure). He then visited shipbuilding yards and test facilities in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, England and France before being assigned to the naval shipyard in Newport News . In 1940 the Navy's shipyards were reorganized and he became Commander and he was working on the design of the Essex-class aircraft carriers. After the start of the war, he was entrusted with the production of aircraft carriers, which he strongly promoted. After the war he received the Legion of Merit for this . In 1944 he became a Commodore. In 1945 he was sent on a mission to Germany to secure naval technology from the defeated Germans. For this he received the Gold Star . He has received other prestigious awards and a British OBE . In 1945 he became director of the naval research laboratory in Anacostia (Washington) , which he remained until he left the Navy in 1949 (most recently he was Rear Admiral). In the same year he became a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1968 he retired.

In 1973 he became a member of the National Academy of Engineering . He received the Gibbs Brother Medal (1970) and the David W. Taylor Medal (1964).

Fonts

• Statics of the ship's bottom under water pressure, dissertation, TH Berlin 1937
  • English: Theory of motions of craft in waves, Univ. Berkeley 1950
• Bending theory of ship bottom structure, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers 1938
• The orthogonally stiffened plate under uniform lateral load, Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Journal of Applied Mechanics, Volume 7, 1940, A 143-A146
• Design curves for cross-stiffened plating under uniform bending load, Transactions Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Volume 49, 1941
• The Effective Breadth of Stiffened Plating Under Bending Loads, Transactions Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME), Volume 59, 1951.
• The Effective Breadth Concept in Ship Structural Design, Transactions Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Volume 61, 1953.

literature

• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 600 and p. 1058 (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .
• Alaa E. Mansour, J. Randolph Paulling, Egor P. Popov, John V. Wehausen: Henry A. Schade (1900-1992) , Memorial Tributes, Volume 7, 1994, National Academy of Engineering, Online

Individual evidence

1. ^ English translation Theory of Motions of Craft in Waves , University of California, Berkeley 1950