Hubert Rüsch

Hubert Rüsch (born December 13, 1903 in Dornbirn ; † October 17, 1979 in Munich ) was a German civil engineer .

Act

Hubert Rüsch worked and researched in Germany in the field of reinforced concrete construction in the 20th century . Rüsch made significant contributions in the fields of reinforced concrete shell construction , prestressed concrete construction and the theory of the plastic behavior of concrete. Among other things, he developed the shell-shed roofs for the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg .

Life

Hubert Rüsch came from a Vorarlberg industrial dynasty ( Rüsch-Werke ) and spent his childhood and youth in Dornbirn. From 1922 to 1926 he studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Munich , a. a. with Ludwig Föppl and Heinrich Spangenberg .

Immediately after completing his studies, he took over the structural-structural work on important large-scale projects at Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG , such as the cupolas of the wholesale market hall in Leipzig (under the direction of Franz Dischinger ) or the market hall in Basel . In 1931 he received his doctorate from Spangenberg on shell shed roofs .

From 1931 to 1934 he headed the design office of the Dywidag branch in Buenos Aires and returned to Germany in 1935.

This roof system achieved its international breakthrough a few years later with the construction of the Volkswagen factory.

From 1943 on, Rüsch played a central role in the development of the prestressed concrete standard DIN 4227. From 1948 he worked as a professorship for solid construction at the Technical University of Munich and became one of the leading German specialists in the theory of reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete and plastic Behavior of concrete.

Until his retirement in 1969, Rüsch had an influence on the development of reinforced concrete construction through his participation in numerous international associations such as the Fédération Internationale de la Précontrainte (FIP) or the Comité Européen du Béton (CEB).

Honors

1957 Emil Mörsch commemorative coin from the German Concrete Association
1959 honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Dresden
1972 Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal
As a souvenir, Hubert Rüsch has been awarded the Rüsch Research Prize by the German Concrete and Construction Technology Association since 1983 “on the German Construction Technology Day to a young researcher for a work in the field of concrete construction that arose in the first seven years of his career. "

plant

buildings

Fonts

Theory of cross-braced cylindrical shells for narrow, asymmetrical circular segments, dissertation, TU Munich 1931

Shed buildings in shell construction, Zeiss-Dywidag system, concrete and reinforced concrete construction , Volume 35, 1936, pp. 159–165

The halls of the Volkswagen works in shell construction, Zeiss-Dywidag system, civil engineer , Volume 20, 1939, Issue 9/10, pp. 123–129

with H. Kupfer: Dimensioning of Prestressed Concrete Components , in: Concrete Calendar , Volume 43, Part 1, Ernst & Sohn 1954, pp. 401–468, and Concrete Calendar, Volume 69, Part 1, 1980, pp. 989–1086

Slabs of road bridges, DAfStb booklet 106, 1957

Prestressed concrete, explanations of the guidelines for dimensioning and execution, Ernst & Sohn, 1953

Calculation tables for obliquely angled slabs of road bridges, DAfStb Heft 166, 1967

Reinforced concrete - prestressed concrete. vol. 1: The basics of reinforced concrete with special consideration of the new DIN 1045. Material properties and design methods, Düsseldorf: Werner Verlag 1972.

with D. Jungwirth: Reinforced concrete - prestressed concrete. Vol. 2: The consideration of the effects of creep and shrinkage on the behavior of the supporting structure, Düsseldorf: Werner-Verlag 1976

literature

Herbert Kupfer : Hubert Rüsch (1903 to 1979). The pioneer of modern solid construction . In: 1997 yearbook of the VDI-Gesellschaft Bautechnik . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1997, pp. 227-287.
Klaus Stiglat : Civil engineers and their work , Ernst & Sohn 2003
Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 766f and p. 1054f (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Rüsch, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 13, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dornbirn
DATE OF DEATH	17th October 1979
Place of death	Munich

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