Horst Falkner

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Horst Falkner (born April 20, 1939 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian civil engineer and former holder of the chair for solid construction at the 3rd Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences at the Technical University of Braunschweig .

Life

Horst Falkner went to school in Innsbruck (1946–50 Volksschule Innsbruck and 1950–58 Realschule Innsbruck). From 1958 he studied civil engineering at the Graz University of Technology . After obtaining his diploma (1964), he began working for an engineering office in Stuttgart. Falkner did his doctorate in 1969 with Leonhardt and Gieseke on the subject of temperature and crack formation in reinforced concrete construction.

In 1971 Falkner went to Canada. He received a visiting professorship for “prestressed structures” at the University of Toronto . Together with Davenport and Collins he carried out wind measurements at the CN Tower. In 1972 Falkner returned to the engineering office in Germany, where he became a partner in 1978. In 1988 he founded the IBF engineering office with locations in Stuttgart, Braunschweig and Berlin. From 1993 to 1999 Falkner was chairman of the VMPA (Association of Material Testing Institutes) in Germany.

From 1987 to 2007 he held a professorship for solid construction and building construction at the TU Braunschweig; there he became a member of the board of the material testing institute (MPA BS) in Braunschweig. He worked in an interdisciplinary manner and regularly led scientific conferences from which extensive documentation emerged.

From 1990 to 2015 Falkner worked as a building expert in civil protection (Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief).

After his retirement, Falker returned to the IBF Stuttgart, which he headed until 2015.

Honors

In 2005 Falkner received an honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig.

Writings (ed.)

  • Proven concrete construction / Braunschweiger Bauseminar 2005 . Braunschweig 2005, ISBN 978-3-89288-172-8
  • Steel fiber concrete - an unpredictable material? / Braunschweig building seminar 2002 . Braunschweig 2002, ISBN 978-3-89288-145-2
  • Building in the next millennium / Braunschweig building seminar 1999 . Braunschweig 1999, ISBN 978-3-89288-125-4
  • with Manfred Teutsch, Horst Klinkert: Load bearing and deformation behavior of dynamically stressed roadways made of concrete and steel fiber reinforced concrete: Research report . Braunschweig 1997, ISBN 978-3-89288-110-0
  • Conference on prestressed concrete in structural and industrial construction . Braunschweig 1991, ISBN 978-3-89288-065-3

literature

  • Chandrasekhar, CS; Falkner, H., Influence of the width of loading plate on the rotation capacity of reinforce concrete members. Waterloo (Ont.): University of Waterloo, 1971. (Report / Solid mechanics division / University of Waterloo; 95)
  • Andrä, W.; Falkner, H., The Post-War History of the Rhine Bridge Cologne-Deutz. In: Bauingenieur 54 (1979), pp. 306-307
  • Falkner, H., Superstructure on the city motorway along Schlangenbader Strasse in Berlin-Wilmersdorf: Overview of calculation and construction. In: -Lectures on Betontag 1979 from April 25 to 27, 1979 in Berlin. Wiesbaden: German Concrete Association, 1979. pp. 123–140
  • Horst Falkner 65 . In: Bautechnik 81 . (2004), issue 5, page 396
  • Manfred Teutsch (Hrsg.): Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Horst Falkner: Concrete construction - research, development and application. Institute for Building Materials, Solid Construction and Fire Protection, TU Braunschweig. Braunschweig 1999, IBN 978-3-89288-121-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Falkner: On the question of crack formation due to inherent and constrained stresses due to temperature in reinforced concrete components . In: Dafstb (Ed.): Booklet 208 . 1969.
  2. ^ Civil engineer Horst Falkner receives honorary doctorate from Leipzig , idw - Science Information Service, November 1, 2005
personal data
SURNAME Falkner, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian civil engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck