Herbert Schambeck (civil engineer)

Danube bridge Metten

Herbert Schambeck (born May 31, 1927 in Munich ; † August 21, 2013 ) was a German civil engineer .

biography

After graduating from high school in 1944, Schambeck became a soldier, was a prisoner of war and from 1946 studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Munich with a diploma in 1950. He then went to Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG in the Nuremberg branch . In his early years at Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG, he developed an optical measuring method with which the main curvatures and thus bending moments in a concrete slab could be determined from the distortions of a mirror image of a grid. That got him the attention of Ulrich Finsterwalder , the company's chief designer, who brought him to the head office in Munich . In 1966 he became head of the bridge construction department. In 1973 he was appointed director and in 1990 he retired but continued to work as a consulting engineer with worldwide operations.

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1985 ("honorary doctorate").

In 2006 he and his colleagues published a call to civil engineers to promote the reputation of their own profession by constantly adapting the quality of their work to practical needs and by making it clear to the public that quality also has its price.

The Metten Danube Bridge , which is based on a structural design by the engineer Herbert Schambeck, is a cable-stayed bridge and at the same time a concrete bridle bridge . This procedure is not very common in Germany. This type of construction can also be found in the engineering work of Riccardo Morandi from Italy, who is considered one of the first pioneers of prestressed concrete construction. In contrast to the bridge developments by Morandi, the Metten Bridge only has one belt in the middle of the structure.

Bridge building projects

• Casterfeld Bridge Mannheim (1961)
• Great Weser Bridge Bremen (1961, Wilhelm Kaisen Bridge)
• Rhine Bridge Bendorf Lot I (1964)
• Elztal Bridge (1965 with Finsterwalder)
• Moselle Bridge Schweich (1974)
• Balduin Bridge Koblenz (1970, prestressed concrete bridge)
• Holledau motorway bridge (1979)
• 2. Main bridge Hoechst AG (1972)
• Pylon of the Rhine bridge Düsseldorf-Flehe (1977),
• Danube Bridge Metten (1980)
• Flößerbrücke Frankfurt (1985)
• Transrapid test facility Emsland (1980–1987)
• Franjo Tuđman Bridge (Dubrovnik) , also called Dubrovnik Bridge (2001)

Fonts (selection)

• with Finsterwalder: The development of the free porch of prestressed concrete bridges, civil engineer, Volume 40, March 1965, pp. 85–91.
• with Ulrich Finsterwalder: Die Elztalbrücke, 2 parts, civil engineer, Volume 41, May 1966, pp. 251-258, Volume 42, 1967, pp. 251-258
• with H. Kroppen: The Zügelgurtbrücke made of prestressed concrete over the Danube in Metten, in: Beton- und Stahlbetonbau, Volume 77, May 1982, pp. 131-136, 156-161.
• Old and new ideas in solid bridge construction, civil engineer, Volume 61, 1986, pp. 289–293.
• with Josef Eibl , Alfred Pauser , Jörg Schlaich , Klaus Stiglat , René Walther , Hans-Joachim Wolff , Wilhelm Zellner : Responsibility and reputation of civil engineers - an appeal. In: Stahlbau, Volume 75, November 2006, pp. 962–963.
• with Josef Eibl , György Iványi : Calculation of box-shaped bridge abutments, Düsseldorf: Werner Verlag, 3rd edition 1988

literature

• Klaus Stiglat (Ed.): Civil engineers and their work , Ernst and Son 2004
• Cengiz Dicleli: Obituary in Concrete and Reinforced Concrete Construction, Volume 108, November 2013, p. 814

Web links

• Biography at Structurae