Karl Popp (engineer)

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Karl Popp (born August 14, 1942 in Regensburg ; † April 24, 2005 ) was a German engineer , researcher and university professor .

Life

Popp studied mechanical engineering in Regensburg and at the Technical University of Munich , where he also received his doctorate and qualified as a professor . In 1981 he was appointed professor for mechanics of systems at the University of Hanover and took over the professorship for mechanics B there in 1985 . Until 2005 he was dean of the mechanical engineering department at the university . In addition, in September 2004 he was awarded the title of "Advisory Professor" ( Prof. E. h. ) By Tongji University in China .

Popp has published on topics such as linear and non-linear machine, system and vehicle dynamics , chaotic movements, friction phenomena and mechatronics .

With Franz Otto Kopp and Erwin Stein he was involved in the reconstruction of Leibniz's four-species calculating machine.

Publications (selection)

  • with Werner Schiehlen: vehicle dynamics . An introduction to the dynamics of the vehicle - track system , (1st edition 1993), 3rd expanded and revised edition in the specialist book publisher Leipzig by Carl Hanser Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-40599-8
  • with Bodo Heimann, Wilfried Gerth: Mechatronik: Components - Methods - Examples, Carl Hanser Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3-446-18719-1
  • with Kurt Magnus, Walter Sextro: Vibrations: An introduction to the physical principles and the theoretical treatment of vibration problems, Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 978-3-519-42301-0
  • with Werner Schiehlen: Ground vehicle dynamics , Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-24038-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Popp, Karl. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. De Gruyter. Retrieved December 18, 2019.
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Besdo, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bodo Heimann: Obituary. Retrieved December 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Unimagazin Hannover, 12/2004, p. 70: Personalia. Retrieved December 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Hans Wußing, 6000 Years of Mathematics, Volume 1, Springer 2008, p. 425
personal data
SURNAME Popp, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 2005