Manfred Heckl
Manfred Heckl (born July 15, 1930 in Rennertshofen ; † August 16, 1996 ) was a German expert on acoustics .
Heckl studied physics at the University of Munich with a diploma in room acoustics in 1954 with Lothar Cremer , whom he followed in the same year as an assistant at the TU Berlin . In 1957 he received his doctorate there on sound propagation and attenuation in cylindrical shells. He then spent three years in the acoustics engineering company Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) in the USA. In 1962 he founded the acoustical consulting office Müller-BBN in Munich with his friend Helmut A. Müller (1929–2015), Lothar Cremer, Ludwig Schreiber and Leo Beranek from BBN, which developed into one of the largest engineering offices in this field (today Müller- BBM with headquarters in Planegg ). It emerged from the Cremer engineering office, which Müller took over in 1958. He completed his habilitation on the generation of sound in flows and in 1973 succeeded Lothar Cremer as professor for technical acoustics at the TU Berlin. In 1995 he retired. In August 1996 he died of complications after brain surgery.
He dealt with technical acoustics, room acoustics (structure-borne noise), noise control, traffic noise (and other complex sound sources), acoustics of (hydrodynamic and aerodynamic) flows and theoretical acoustics. He also made films to illustrate complex acoustic fields. At first he dealt with vibrations of flat structures and their sound generation and introduced statistical energy analysis (SEA). Early on he used computers extensively for numerical calculations and in his engineering office had a private time-sharing modem connection to a mainframe computer in the USA as early as the 1960s.
In 1991 he received the Rayleigh Medal (Institute of Acoustics) and in 1996, posthumously, the Helmholtz Medal of the German Society for Acoustics . In 1978 and 1990 he was visiting professor in India. He was also on shorter stays as a visiting scholar in Russia, England and Argentina. He had around 90 PhD students.
He had been married to Anna Heckl since 1956 and had five children.
Fonts
- with Lothar Cremer: structure-borne sound, Springer 1967, 3rd edition 2010 (M. Möser, W. Kropp, editor)
- with L. Cremer, E. Ungar: Structure-Borne Sound, Springer 1973, 3rd edition 2005 (arranged by B. Petersson)
- Edited with H. Müller: Taschenbuch der Technischen Akustik, Springer 1975, 3rd edition 2004 (Eds. H. Müller, Michael Möser)
- Edited with H. Müller, Michael Möser: Handbook of Engineering Acoustics, Springer 2013
- with others: Modern methods in analytical acoustics, Springer 1992
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heckl, Manfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist and engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rennertshofen |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 1996 |