K. Rainer Massarsch

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Karl Rainer Massarsch (born December 31, 1943 ) is an Austrian civil engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering .

Life

Massarsch studied at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna and received his doctorate from the Royal Technical University (KTH) in Stockholm . He was then at the University of California, Berkeley and Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky at Lexington. He was professor for soil dynamics at the KTH, was in a large Swedish engineering office for foundation engineering and technical director in an international foundation engineering company. Today Massarsch works as a consulting engineer (in his company Georisk and Vibration).

He deals with soil dynamics (risks of vibrations, pile driving, traffic vibrations), earthquake engineering, geotechnical field investigations, soil improvement with vibratory compaction, vertical drainage, deep soil reinforcement. Several inventions come from him (resonance compaction, soil nails for foundations (foundation nailing), shielding of floor vibrations with inflatable pillows). He was involved in major international foundation projects (dams, airports, tunnels, ports, industrial plants) and in the rescue and restoration measures for Egyptian antiquities ( tomb of Nefertari , Colossi of Memnon ).

Massarsch was chairman of the ISSMGE's technical committee for geophysical tests (TC 10) and chairman of the Swedish committee for ground dynamics (Ground Vibrations) as well as chairman of the European standards committee (CEN / TC 288) for deep soil mixing and vertical drainage.

In 2004 he became an honorary member of the Swedish Geotechnical Society. In 2003 he held the Vienna Terzaghi Lecture (geotechnical engineering for the rescue of architectural monuments).

He is one of the founders of geoforum.com.

Fonts

  • New method for measurement of lateral earth pressure in cohesive soils, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Volume 12, 1975, pp. 142-146
  • Soil movements caused by pile driving in clay, KTH Stockholm 1976
  • New aspects of soil fracturing in clay, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Volume 104, 1978, Issue 8
  • Lateral Earth pressure in normally consolidated clay, Design Parameters in Geotechnical Engineering, Proc. 7th European Conference of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering 1979
  • Deep soil compaction using vibratory probes, in: Deep Foundation Improvements: Design, Construction, and Testing 1991
  • Settlement analysis of compacted granular fill, Proc. Int. Conf. Soil Mech. Found. Closely. 1994
  • with Bengt H. Fellenius: Vibratory compaction of coarse-grained soils, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Volume 39, 2002, pp. 695-709
  • Deformation properties of fine-grained soils from seismic tests, Keynote lecture of International Conference on Site Characterization, 2004
  • Vibration isolation using gas-filled cushions, Proceedings of the Geo-Frontiers 2005 Congress
  • with BH Fellenius: Ground vibrations induced by impact pile driving, Missouri University of Science and Technology 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ U.S. Patent 1987
personal data
SURNAME Massarsch, K. Rainer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Massarsch, Karl Rainer (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian civil engineer for geotechnics
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1943