Herbert Breth

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Herbert Breth (born June 29, 1913 in Vienna ; † January 5, 2006 in Darmstadt ) was a German civil engineer. He was a professor at what was then the TH Darmstadt .

Life

Breth attended the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, where he graduated in 1936. He then worked for Degebo (German Society for Soil Mechanics) in Berlin, which was assigned to the TU Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1938. At Degebo he also worked with Wilhelm Loos , its managing director, on geotechnical problems in connection with road construction and on earth pressure experiments.

Breth was a recognized expert in dam construction as early as the early 1950s and supervised projects in this area worldwide. He had a total of 67 large dam projects. One of them was the Forggensee in the Ostallgäu. From 1960 he was a professor in Darmstadt, where from 1961 until his retirement in 1980 he headed the Institute for Foundation Engineering and Soil Mechanics of the former TH Darmstadt (today TU Darmstadt) and the associated research institute.

In addition to dam projects, it made a name for itself in construction projects in Frankfurt am Main . In the 1970s, at his institute and with his engineering office, he investigated the behavior of high-rise foundations and deep excavation pits in the Frankfurt clay , whereby material models were also created for the clay and the calculation was carried out with finite elements. However, he combined this with metrological monitoring and verification of the calculation models on the construction projects. In addition to building high-rise buildings in Frankfurt, he was also involved in the construction of the Frankfurt subway. There, in the early 1970s, the New Austrian Tunneling Method (NÖT, see underground line B (Frankfurt am Main) ) was used for the first time in the world for the tunneling under the Frankfurt Römer , which Breth was in charge of geotechnically.

His students include Peter Amann (professor at ETH Zurich), Rainer Wanninger (professor at TH Braunschweig), Ulvi Arslan (professor in Darmstadt), Rolf Katzenbach (professor in Darmstadt).

He has been an honorary member of the DGGT since 2004 .

Others

Breth is the father of theater director Andrea Breth .

Fonts

  • The load-bearing behavior of the Frankfurt clay in the case of stresses occurring in civil engineering , reports from the Research Institute for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering of the TH Darmstadt, volume 4, 1970.
  • with Amann, D. Stroh On the influence of the deformation behavior of the Frankfurt clay on the depth effect of a high-rise building and the shape of the settlement depression , communication from the Research Institute for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering of the TH Darmstadt, volume 15, 1975
  • with D. Stroh The deformation behavior of the Frankfurt clay during the excavation of a deep construction pit and the subsequent loading by a high-rise building , building site conference Frankfurt 1974, p. 51
  • with Amann On the settlement of high-rise buildings and the bending loads on foundation slabs , Bautechnik 1977, issue 2, p. 37
  • The current status of dam construction , water management, Volume 62, 1972, Issue 1/2

literature

  • Ulvi Arslan , Heinz Schwab (editor) Contributions to dam and soil mechanics. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of o. Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. Herbert Breth , Mitt. Inst. For Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Darmstadt 1983
  • Katzenbach (editor): Festschrift for the 90th birthday of Herbert Breth , Mitt. Institut Geotechnik TU Darmstadt 2003 (with reprint of work by Breth)
  • Ulvi Arslan , obituary, Bautechnik 2007, issue 6
  • Rolf Katzenbach, Klaus Kirsch, Obituary, Geotechnik, 2006, No. 1, p. 9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Breth, Loos, K. Endell Relationship between colloid chemical and soil physical indicators of cohesive soils and the effect of frost , research work from the road system, Volume 16, Berlin, 1939, Breth, Loos The calculation of elastically bedded beams and slabs: a critical consideration of the bedding method , Bremen 1948
  2. ↑ Weiß 50 years Degebo , Mitt.Degebo 1978, p. 39
  3. ↑ for example Breth status and development directions of dam construction , planning and building 1950, Breth principles in the planning and execution of dams , road and civil engineering, Volume 17, 1963, p. 811, Breth, G. Kückelmann The pore water pressure in earth dams , Structural Engineering, 1954, issue 1
  4. ↑ Katzenbach, Kirsch, Obituary, Geotechnik 2006
personal data
SURNAME Breth, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 2006
Place of death Darmstadt