Kiriak Sawriewi
Kiriak Samsonis dse Sawriewi ( Georgian კირიაკ სამსონის ძე ზავრიევი ; * January 16 jul. / January 28, 1891 greg. In Tbilisi ; † December 14, 1978 ibid) was a Georgian civil engineer and university professor .
Life
Sawriewi, son of a noble family of Armenian origin, studied civil engineering at the St. Petersburg Institute for Railway Transport . Even during his studies he worked scientifically and developed a method for stress calculation in buildings. On the recommendation of the institute director Stepan Tymoshenko , Sawriewi submitted his work to the institute council, whereupon it was published. As a student he worked on the construction of the lock bascule bridge and made designs. In 1914 he graduated with a gold medal and now worked there as a lecturer .
After the outbreak of the First World War , Sawriewi planned river bridges at the front and worked on the rehabilitation of old bridges.
After the October Revolution , in 1919, Sawriewi became the head of the road service in Armenia . In 1921 he became head of the bridges department of the Transcaucasian Railway . At the same time he became a lecturer at the Polytechnic Institute in Tbilisi (until 1956). In 1923 he was appointed professor. In 1926 he suggested the use of anchors in house construction to protect against earthquakes . In 1926 he developed a dynamic theory of earthquake safety. In 1928 he became the Deputy Director of the Transcaucasian Institute of Construction . In 1930 he became head of the chair and vice-rector for scientific work at the Institute for Rail Transport in Tbilisi . He recommended the use of lightweight concrete and prestressed concrete . He designed many large bridges for the Transcaucasian Railway. 1935 he designed together with the architect N. P. Sewerowe the Tscheljuskinzy bridge (now Queen Tamar Bridge ) over the Kura in Tbilisi. Sawriewi had many students, including WW Mikhailov .
After the German-Soviet War , Sawriewi founded the Institute for Structural Analysis and Earthquake Safety of the Georgian Academy of Sciences in 1947 , of which he was director until his death and which now bears his name.
Sawriewi was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR . He received the Order of Lenin twice , four other orders and various medals.
In 1959, the Tbilisi Railway Transport Institute was merged with the Tbilisi Polytechnic Institute.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article Sawrijew Kiriak Samsonowitsch in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ Кириак Самсонович Завриев - крупный ученый, инженер широкого профиля (accessed October 10, 2016).
- ↑ Zavriev, Kiriak Samsonovich (accessed on 10 October 2016).
- ↑ a b Я ручаюсь за эту скалу (accessed October 10, 2016).
- ↑ KSZavriev Institute of Structural Mechanics and Earthquake Engineering (accessed October 10, 2016).
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SURNAME | Sawriewi, Kiriak |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sawriewi, Kiriak Samsonis dse; ზავრიევი, კირიაკ სამსონის ძე (Georgian); Завриев, Кириак Самсонович (Russian); Zavrievi, Kiriak Samsonis |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Georgian civil engineer and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1891 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tbilisi |
DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 1978 |
Place of death | Tbilisi |