Herbert Klimke

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Herbert Klimke (born August 15, 1939 in Berlin ) is a German civil engineer.

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After graduating from high school, the son of an administrative lawyer studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Berlin , where he completed his diploma thesis on the static verification of the inclined hangers of the Fehmarnsund Bridge near Karlheinz Roik with the top grade. To solve this problem, Herbert Klimke, supervised by Klaus Brandes, wrote a program in machine language for the Zuse Z23 computer . After completing his studies in 1966, he worked for two years as a structural engineer at Krupp in Rheinhausen and in structural engineering at Krupp-Druckermüller in Berlin. Klimke continued his structural engineering career in 1968 at Noell & Co. in Würzburg, and then on September 1, 1971, he joined the steel construction department of MERO (spatial framework) . Klimke remained loyal to this Würzburg company founded by Max Mengeringhausen until he retired in the late summer of 2004.

Klimke set up the data center at MERO, which he managed from 1974 to 1991. In 1976 he did his doctorate as an external student with Udo Vogel at the TH Karlsruhe with a thesis on the application of the load-bearing theory to statically indeterminate spatial frameworks . He used this knowledge for MERO by modifying the finite element program system Structural Analysis Program (SAP) in such a way that nonlinear effects from theory of the second order and ideally elastic / ideally plastic material behavior could be mapped. Based on studies by Helmut Emde, Klimke worked with Jaime Sanchez and Martin Ruh on computer-aided syntheses of complex topologies of spatial frameworks. In his capacity as head of the data center, Klimke deserves the credit that MERO, with the help of the computer-based linking of design, calculation, construction and NC production of space frameworks, has achieved a technical lead and successfully entered the international market for spatial roof structures, initially from space frameworks and later also from rod shells, could board [3].

Not least because of its international network - for example through the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) - and its high reputation, MERO was able to realize numerous roof structures: Split Stadium , Stockholm Globe Arena , Hippodrome Ankara, Neue Messe Leipzig (1996), Arts Center Singapore, Eden Project in Cornwall, east-west glass roof of the Lehrter Bahnhof Berlin etc. Klimke worked with prominent architects and civil engineers such as Meinhard von Gerkan , Volkwin Marg , Nicholas Grimshaw , Ian Ritchie , Jörg Schlaich and Werner Sobek . As a long-time member of the editorial board of Stahlbau magazine, Klimke suggested numerous articles, often took up pen himself and increased the international reputation of Stahlbau magazine . Klimke's contributions to the technical and scientific development of innovative steel and glass constructions are considerable. In addition to his work at MERO - most recently as technical manager - he was involved in setting up the specialist association for constructive glass construction. In this way, he made a significant contribution to the fact that structural glass construction was able to emancipate itself from steel construction and establish itself as an independent building science.

In October 2003, Klimke organized a festival colloquium for the 100th birthday of Max Mengeringhausen on behalf of the MERO company in the Bauhaus Dessau, with speakers from Werner Sobek, Volkwin Marg, Werner Nachtigall and Karl-Eugen Kurrer . He retired a year later.

Works

  • H. Klimke: On the status of the development of the framework domes . In: Der Stahlbau, 52nd vol. (1983), no. 9, pp. 257-262.
  • H. Klimke; W. Kemmer, N. Rennon: The timber frame dome of the Stockholm Globe Arena . In: Stahlbau, Vol. 58 (1989), H. 19, pp. 1-8.
  • H. Klimke; D. Hahn: CAD between automation and interaction . In: Stahlbau, Vol. 59 (1990), H. 10, pp. 301-304.
  • Chr. Stutzki; A. Kliem; H. Klimke; J. Kleprlik: The roof structure of Terminal 2 at Frankfurt Airport . In: Stahlbau, 63rd vol. (1994), H. 6, pp. 161-168.
  • H. Klimke; J. Sanchez; M. Vasilu; W. Stuhler; C. Kaspar: The facade and steel structure of the Art Center in Singapore . In: Stahlbau, 71st vol. (2002), H. 7, pp. 473-483.
  • H. Klimke; S. Stephan; J. Velocity; U. step; H.-G. Range; D. Kiehn: The execution of the east-west glass roof over the Lehrter station . In: Stahlbau, 71st vol. (2002), H. 12, pp. 869-883.
  • H. Klimke; W. Walochnik: Spatial frameworks and no end? . In: Stahlbau, 79th vol. (2010), no. 7, pp. 471–476.

literature

  • Roland Klose: Herbert Klimke: Ingenious intellectual worker of spatial structures in lightweight steel construction . In: Stahlbau, Volume 73 (2004), H. 8, pp. 539-540.
  • Karl-Eugen Kurrer : Herbert Klimke 65 years . In: Stahlbau, Volume 73 (2004), No. 8, p. 643.

proof

  1. ↑ H. Klimke: Calculation of the load-bearing capacity of statically indeterminate spatial articulated frameworks taking into account the supercritical reserve of the compression rods . Karlsruhe: Dissertation University of Karlsruhe 1976.
  2. ↑ M. Ruh, H. Klimke: Representation of a construction system for generating the geometry of node-rod structures . In: IKOSS - Intern. FEM Congress, 1981, pp. 107-122. Baden-Baden
  3. ↑ WELCOME TO THE IASS. international association for shell and spatial structures, accessed July 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Company history: Timeline for the history of the Leipziger Messe. Leipziger Messe GmbH, archived from the original on November 29, 2014 ; Retrieved December 9, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Arts Center Singapore - The Esplanade. MERO, 2002, accessed July 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Klimke, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin