Manfred Kany

Manfred Kany (* 1922 ; † 2011 ) was a German civil engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering. For many years he was head of the foundation engineering institute of the state trade institute in Nuremberg.

Kany received his doctorate in Darmstadt in 1954 (contribution to the calculation of foundations on a flexible base) and has been at the LGA Nuremberg since it was founded in 1955, where he was senior construction director in the 1980s. Kany had the title of professor.

He dealt in particular with shallow foundations and their numerical calculation. For this purpose, he developed programs (Geotec) at the LGA, also for other geotechnical problems (such as the stability of embankments).

In 1979 he was the founder and until 1998 head of the German expert committee “Soil Mechanics, Earthworks and Foundation Works” (today “Earthworks, Foundation Works, Rock Construction”), based at the IHK Nürnberg.

Kany was a member of the DGGT working groups for safety and calculation methods.

Fonts

• Calculation of land foundations, Ernst 1959, 2nd edition in 2 volumes 1974
• with Edward Beer, Heinz Graßhoff : The calculation of elastic foundation beams on flexible subsoil: Comparative studies on the influence of the stiffness of the building structure, the plate stiffness and a cantilever on the internal loads on the base plate, research reports of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia 1515, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Social Sciences 1966
• Electronic calculations, in: Grundbau-Taschenbuch , Ernst 1966
• with Helmut Becker: Anchoring piles for temporary structures, reports from building research, issue 54, 1967
• with Siegfried Jänke: Tests on horizontal trench sheeting according to DIN 4124, reports from building research, volume 82, 1973
• with Siegfried Jänke: Probe calibration in the sand, publications by the foundation construction institute of the Bavarian State Trade Organization. H. 18, 1973
• with Hubert Heinisch: Water permeability and filter properties of solid porous bodies, Ernst 1977
• Subsoil outcrop: Commentary on DIN 4021 to 4023 and DIN 18196, Beuth 1997
•  with M. El Gendy: Comparative study of numerical models for the calculation of foundation slabs, in: Theory and Practice, numerical models in soil mechanics, publisher: Graz University of Technology, 1993.
• with M. El Gendy: Computing of beam and slab foundations on three dimensional layered model. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Berlin, 12. – 15. July 1995, pp. 1297-1303.
• with M. El Gendy: Research report on safety investigations for foundations according to EC7 / DIN 1054. Research report to IFBT, Berlin, 1996
• with M. El Gendy: Analysis of System of Footing Resting on Irregular Soil, Proceedings of the XIVth International Conference on Soil Mechanics & Foundation Engineering, Hamburg, 6. – 12. September 1997, pp. 995-998.
• with M. El Gendy: Calculation of large systems of rigid base plates. Civil engineer, Volume 74, 1999, pp. 471-478.
• with M. El Gendy, J. Hanisch: Empirical nonlinear calculation of combined pile and plate foundations (KPP), Bautechnik, Volume 83, 2006, Issue 9, pp. 604–617.

literature

• Individual contributions to special questions of foundation engineering and soil mechanics: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dedicated to Manfred Kany on the occasion of his 65th birthday, publications by LGA Grundbauinstitut 50, 1987
• Manfred Kany 70, Geotechnics, 1992, No. 2
• Ulrich Smoltczyk : Manfred Kany 80, Geotechnik, Volume 25, 2002, No. 2, p. 78

Web links

• Obituary IHK Nuremberg, 2011