József Jáky

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József Jáky (born July 15, 1893 in Szeged , † September 13, 1950 in Hévíz ) was a Hungarian civil engineer specializing in foundation engineering and soil mechanics.

Jáky studied civil engineering in Budapest and received his doctorate there in 1925. Under the influence of Karl von Terzaghi , whose laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he visited for a year in 1927, he turned to soil mechanics and, following Terzaghi's example, built one of the first European laboratories for soil mechanics at the Technical University of Budapest in 1928 , where he became a professor . He is known for solving earth pressure problems and dealt with the problem of slope stability.

He was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Árpád Kézdi is one of his students .

literature

  • Károly Széchy (ed.): Memorial book for Professor József Jáky . Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1955.
  • József Jáky: The classical earth pressure theory with special consideration of the retaining wall movement . Treatises of the International Association for Bridge Construction and Building Construction. Volume 5, 1938, pp. 187-220.
  • Achim Hettler and Karl-Eugen Kurrer : Earth pressure . Ernst & Sohn , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-433-03274-9 , pp. 314-316

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He gave lectures on this at international conferences: The classical earth pressure theory , in: Proceedings of the 4th International Congress on Applied Mechanics, Cambridge, 1934, New theory of earth pressure , in: Proceedings of the 2nd ICSMFE, Rotterdam, 1948
  2. ^ Stability of earth slopes , in: Proceedings of the 1st ICSMFE, Cambridge, 1936
personal data
SURNAME Jáky, József
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian engineer for foundation engineering and soil mechanics
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Szeged
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1950
Place of death Hévíz