Jacob Field

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Jacob Feld (born March 3, 1899 in Austria-Hungary , † August 17, 1975 in New York City / USA ) was an American civil engineer whose focus was on teaching and research, particularly in the field of earth pressure theory .

Life

Feld, born to Israel Feld (1866–1936) and Gussie Harzoff Feld (1869–1938), his family moved with him in 1906 to New York in the United States .

At the age of 19 he graduated from the City College of New York with a bachelor's degree in 1918 . He then moved to the University of Cincinnati, where he initially obtained a Master of Arts degree in 1921 and received his doctorate in 1922 with a dissertation on experimental earth pressure determination , where Jacob Feld commented critically on Terzaghi .

Feld started his professional career in 1923 at Turner Construction and then switched to Long Island Railroad , before setting up his own business with the consulting firm Feld and Timoney in 1926 , which he managed successfully until 1966 and then transferred to the Kaminetzky & Cohen company , which he remained connected until his death. In the course of this activity he examined numerous accidents such as B. also the failure of retaining walls on structures. He was involved in the construction of a section of the 6th Avenue Subway in New York in an advisory capacity and was responsible for the support systems of the New York Coliseum (1928), the Guggenheim Museum , the Yonkers Raceway, the Lincoln Center and the Hudson River Water Pollution Control Plant. Since that time, renowned civil engineers such as David B. Steinman and Henry C. Goldmark, designer of the locks in the Panama Canal, have been among his circle of friends.

Due to his professional activity and the professional experience he gained in the first few years, he published a publication on the historical development of earth pressure theory in particular in 1928 and a paper on soil mechanics in general in 1948 . In addition, from the mid-1950s onwards, field was considered to be the capacity for building radio telescopes. He summarized his extensive knowledge that he had acquired as a forensic expert in structural accidents in two monographs, which he published in 1964 and 1968. Numerous builders, architects and engineers, as well as institutions such as construction companies, mortgage lenders, insurance companies and municipalities were among his clients. The US Air Force and the Highway Research Board also secured Felds services in an advisory capacity. As a visiting professor, he has lectured at Purdue University , Northwestern University, and North Carolina State University . In addition, he was involved in the board of directors of the Technion in Haifa .

Feld had been married to Ethel Gold since January 26, 1928.

Honors

  • Decorated Order of Merit (France), 1963.
  • Recipient silver medal Society Encouragement Progress, France, 1966.
  • Distinguished Engineering Alumnus award College City New York, 1969.
  • Distinguished Engineering College alumnus award University Cincinnati, 1969.
  • Named Metropolitan Engineer of Year, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1956,
  • Brooklyn Engineers Club, 1959.
  • Honorary Doctorate in Law, City College of New York (1972)

literature

Fonts

  • Feld, J. (1922). Measured retaining wall pressure from sand and surcharge. Engineering News Record 88 (3) : 106-108.
  • Feld, J. (1923). Lateral earth pressure: The accurate experimental determination of the lateral earth pressure together with a resume of previous experiments . Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 43, No. 4, 603-660 (Discussion: No. 5, 1007-1025).
  • Feld, J. (1928). History of the development of lateral earth pressure theories . In: Brooklyn Engineers' Club Proceedings, January, 61-104
  • Feld, J. (1948). Early history and bibliography of soil mechanics . Proc. of the Second Intern. Conf. on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Vol. 1, 1-7. Rotterdam / Boston: AA Balkema.
  • Feld, J. (1952/1953). A historical chapter: British royal engineers' papers on soil mechanics and foundation engineering , 1837–1874. Geotechnique III (6): 242-247.
  • Feld, J. (1957). Structural design study for a parabolic reflector six hundred feet in diameter . In: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 155-276. New York: Academy of Sciences.
  • Feld, J. (1964). Lessons from Failures of Concrete Structures . Detroit: American Concrete Institute.
  • Feld, J. (1968). Construction Failure . New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  • Feld, J. and Carper, KL (1997). Construction Failure . 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 978-0-471-57477-4

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Jacob Feld, civil engineer. Prabook, accessed March 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Achim Hettler and Karl-Eugen Kurrer : Earth pressure . Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-433-03274-9 , pp. 311-312
  3. ^ New York Engineering Firm Feld, Kaminetzky & Cohen (FKC). GEI Consultants, accessed March 23, 2019 .
  4. ^ The North River Water Pollution Control Plant on the Hudson River. (Video) gettyimages, accessed March 24, 2019 .
  5. ^ Henry C. Goldmark. UP / CLOSED, accessed March 23, 2019 (English).
  6. ^ Highway Research Board
personal data
SURNAME Field, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1975
Place of death New York City