Leo Rendulic

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Leo Rendulic (* 1904 in Austria-Hungary , † 1940 in Berlin ) was an Austrian geotechnician .

Life

Rendulic received his doctorate in 1932 at the Vienna University of Technology with a dissertation on a stability problem in steel construction. Then he went into the construction industry, where he turned to the basic construction and went back to the TH Vienna in 1934 as an assistant to Karl Terzaghi . With and at Terzaghi he undertook fundamental research into the measurement of pore water pressure, the verification of the Terzaghi concept of effective stresses with early triaxial tests, and the theory of consolidation in the 1930s . In some cases he continued this work at Degebo from 1935 , but was strongly tied to other tasks there. The lack of progress from Terzaghi's point of view earned him severe criticism from him. In 1937 he completed his habilitation at the TH Berlin ( results and interpretation of experiments on clay bodies ). Most recently he turned to reinforced concrete construction and worked for a large construction company in Berlin and then in Frankfurt am Main. Rendulic also dealt with earth pressure theory and hoped to take up the professorship for soil mechanics at the TH Berlin. He died in 1940 after a serious illness.

Rendulic joined the NSDAP while still in Austria. He was married and had a son.

Fonts

  • About the stability of bars, which consist of sheet metal reinforced with edge angles , Ingenieur-Archiv 1932 (dissertation)
  • Stability of composite cross-sections under pure compressive stress , session reports Vienna Academy of Sciences, Volume 142, 1933, pp. 263–278
  • A contribution to the determination of sliding safety , Der Bauingenieur, Volume 16, 1935, pp. 230-233
  • Pore ​​number and pore water pressure in clays , Der Bauingenieur, Volume 17, 1936, pp. 559-564
  • Relation Between Void Ratio and Effective Principal Stresses for a Remolded Silty Clay , Proc. Int. Conf. Soil Mechanics, Cambridge, Volume 3, 1936, pp. 48-51
  • A Basic Law of Sound Mechanics and its Experimental Proof , Civil Engineer, Volume 18, 1937, pp. 459-467
  • Experiments on disturbed clay samples under triaxial pressure conditions , water management and technology 1937
  • The earth pressure in road and bridge construction: a summary with consideration of the latest research results , Verlag Volk und Reich 1938 (research work from the road system, volume 10)
  • The hydrodynamic equalization of tension in centrally drained clay cylinders , water management and technology, Volume 2, 1935, pp. 250-253, pp. 269-273
  • Slip surfaces, test surfaces and earth pressure , Bautechnik 1940, p. 146

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Goodman Karl Terzaghi. The engineer as artist , ASCE Press 1999
  2. ↑ August Hertwig , obituary in: Bautechnik , Volume 18, Issue 55, December 1940, p. 643
personal data
SURNAME Rendulic, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geotechnician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century