Manfred A. Hirt
Manfred A. Hirt (born August 13, 1942 ) is a Swiss civil engineer (steel construction).
Hirt studied civil engineering at the ETH Zurich with a diploma and received his doctorate in 1972 from Lehigh University . He worked as an engineer at B + H in Zurich and at the HNTB engineering office in New York City and is a professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). From 1972 he worked there as a consulting and forensic engineer for the ICOM steel construction laboratory of EPFL, of which he is director.
He dealt with fatigue and fractures in steel structures, their resilience, safety and maintenance requirements.
In 2011 he received the Albert Caquot Prize . In 2003 he was elected President of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) for three years . In 2006 he received the Charles Massonnet Award from the European Convention for Constructional Steelwork.
Fonts
- with Jean-Paul Lebet: Steel Bridges. Conceptual and Structural Design of Steel and Steel-Concrete Composite Bridges. EPFL Press, 2013.
- with Rolf Bez, Alain Nussbaumer: Steel construction. Basic concepts and assessment methods. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Lausanne 2007.
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| SURNAME | Hirt, Manfred A. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1942 |