Horst Lippmann (mathematician)

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Horst Lippmann (born May 7, 1931 in Dresden ; † August 9, 2008 in Crete ) was a German engineer and mathematician and is considered an important developer of theoretical and experimental continuum mechanics (especially plastic deformation) in Germany.

As the son of the master of reproduction photography Walter Lippmann and his wife Elsbeth Findeisen, he attended secondary school in Dresden and then studied mathematics and physics at the University of Greifswald from 1949 to 1953, which he graduated with a degree in math. From 1953 to 1954 he worked as an assistant at the University of Greifswald. He then worked from 1954 to 1957 as a research assistant at the Institute for Plastic Forming of Metals in Zwickau . In 1955 he received his doctorate. rer. nat. with Willi Rinow (1907–1979) on the subject of directions and angles in metric spaces .

From 1957 to 1965 he worked first as a research assistant, from 1958 as an assistant to Eduard Pestel and from 1960 as chief engineer at the Technical University of Hanover at the chair for mechanics. During these years he published several papers on angular geometry in Minkowski spaces and Finsler spaces . This work led him to application tasks in the theory of plasticity and he participates in the working group for forming technology of the Association of German Ironworkers. On behalf of the German Research Foundation, he prepared an overview report on the state of plastomechanics in Germany (which turned out to be behind developments abroad). In 1961 he completed his habilitation in Hanover ( characteristic methods in the theory of plane and axially symmetric forming processes ). In 1965 he accepted a chair for mechanics at the Technical University of Braunschweig, then from 1971 to the University of Karlsruhe .

From 1975 until his retirement on October 1, 1996, he was full professor of Chair A for Mechanics (today's Chair for Materials Science and Mechanics) at the Technical University of Munich in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and as head of the State Materials Testing Office for mechanical engineering. From 1971 to 1977 and from 1983 to 1993 he held the position of director at the International Center for Mechanical Sciences in Udine . From 1986 to 1991 he was also a member of the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research in Düsseldorf . As part of his professional activities, he published around 150 articles in magazines and authored several specialist books.

He was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , the Russian Academy of Sciences (1993), the German Academy of Engineering Sciences and honorary member of the Polish Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. In 1997 he received the Materials & Mechanics Award from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers and in 1996 the Marin Drinov Medal from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Since he also published a lot on the mountain range , he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Montan University Leoben.

At the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach he founded the series of conferences Mechanics of Materials with others . He was the founder and editor of Mechanics Research Communications .

He died in his vacation home in Crete.

Fonts

  • with Oskar Mahrenholtz: On the theory of drag rolling at room temperature , Archiv für das Eisenhüttenwesen, Volume 34, 1963, pp. 419-423
  • On the dynamics of forging , Archive for the ironworks, Volume 35, 1964, pp. 507-515
  • with Oskar Mahrenholtz: Plastomechanics of the Forming of Metallic Materials , Volume 1, Springer 1967
  • Schwingungslehre , Mannheim, Bibliographisches Institut 1968
  • Extremum and variational principles in mechanics , Vienna 1972
  • Examples to Extremum and variational principles in mechanics: course held at the Department of General Mechanics, October 1970 , Vienna 1972
  • as editor: Engineering plasticity: theory of metal forming processes , 2 volumes, Vienna 1977
  • as editor: Metal forming plasticity: symposium Tutzing, Germany, August 28-September 3, 1978 , Berlin 1979
  • Mechanics of plastic flow: Fundamentals and technical applications , Berlin: Springer 1981
  • Applied tensor calculus for engineers, physicists and mathematicians , Berlin: Springer 1993, 2nd edition 1996
  • Tasks on technical mechanics 1 - 3 - statics, elastostatics, kinetics , with Volker Mannl, Ewald Werner and Werner Hauger, Berlin: Springer 2004

literature

  • E. Werner, obituary in Arch. Appl. Mech., Vol. 79, 2009, pp. 3-4
  • Walter Habel, Who is who ?, Lübeck 1993
  • Death notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung from August 16, 2008
  • Jörg Wauer: Mechanics and their specialist representatives at the University of Karlsruhe, KIT Science Publ., 2017, p. 92f
  • Otto Brüller, Volker, Mannl, Jerzy Najar (eds.): Advances in continuum mechanics: 39 papers from international experts dedicated to Horst Lippmann , Berlin: Springer 1991

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lippmann, Mahrenholtz, determination of the current state of plasticity theory and evaluation of its results for practical application in metal forming, TH Hannover 1963
  2. ↑ Person hit - Prof. Dr. Horst Lippmann. Website of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Lippmann, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and engineer for mechanics
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2008
Place of death Crete