Herbert Mang

Herbert A. Mang (born January 5, 1942 in Vienna ) is an Austrian civil engineer. Mang was President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 2003 to 2006 .

Life

After graduating from high school in Vienna, Herbert Mang studied civil engineering at the Vienna University of Technology from 1960 to 1967 . In Vienna he became a member of the Catholic Austrian University Association Nordgau Vienna in the ÖCV . In 1970, he was first at the Vienna University of Technology with honors doctorate in 1974 was followed by a promotion to Ph. D. at Texas Technological University. He completed his habilitation in 1977 at the Vienna University of Technology in the subject of strength theory with special emphasis on the finite element method . The work was awarded the Cardinal Innitzer Promotion Prize for Natural Sciences .

After working as a research assistant at the Vienna University of Technology (1968–1979) and as a Fulbright Fellow at the Texas Technological University, USA (1971–1973) and as a research associate at Cornell University , he was appointed Associate Professor at the Vienna University of Technology in 1979 . In 1981 he was appointed full professor for strength theory at TU Graz , in 1982 he was appointed full professor for elasticity and strength theory at TU Vienna. A year later he became head of the Institute for Strength of Materials at the Vienna University of Technology.

In addition to many external and internal tasks at the Vienna University of Technology, such as that of dean and prorector, he was Secretary General of the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 1995 to 2003 and its President from 2003 to 2006.

Herbert Mang has published papers on structural engineering and strength theory.

Awards (selection)

• 1977: Cardinal Innitzer Promotion Prize for Natural Sciences
• 1995: Full member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts , Salzburg
• 1995: Wilhelm Exner Medal
• 2000: Honorary doctorate from the Cracow University of Technology
• 2002: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
• 2003: Honorary doctorate for Dr. techn. hc from the Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck
• 2004: Honorary doctorate from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute “ Kyiv Polytechnic Institute KPI ”
• 2004: Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Prague
• 2004: External member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Arts , Cracow
• 2004: Foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Washington, DC
• 2006: Great Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 2006: Commander of the Star of Romania
• 2007: Carl Friedrich Gauß Medal of the Braunschweig Scientific Society (BWG)
• 2011: Johann Joseph Ritter von Prechtl Medal
• 2014: Nathan M. Newmark Medal
• 2014: Cardinal Innitzer Prize (appreciation prize)
• 2015: Member of the Academia Europaea
• Member of the German Academy of Engineering Sciences (Acatech)
• Corresponding member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society

Fonts

• with Günter Hofstetter: Computational mechanics of reinforced concrete structures . Vieweg, Braunschweig, Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-528-06390-4 .
• with Günter Hofstetter: Strength of Materials . Springer, Vienna, New York 2004, ISBN 3-211-21208-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Herbert Mang in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Herbert Mang (TU Vienna)
• Entry about Herbert Mang in the database of the Wilhelm Exner Medal Foundation .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
2. ↑ TU Wien: Holders of the Prechtl Medal ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 26, 2015. 

Entry at ORCID .