Max Duke

Max AM Herzog (born October 21, 1926 in Brno , legal resident in Zofingen ; † January 15, 2012 in Solothurn ) was a Swiss civil engineer .

Herzog's parents were Sudeten Germans . His father was a civil engineer at the German Technical University in Brno and then a lecturer at the Technical University in Graz , where Herzog also studied. After graduating, he joined Ed in 1951. Ast (where Adolf Pucher was his boss) and shortly afterwards to an engineering office in Switzerland (in Zofingen). In 1956 he received his doctorate at the TH Graz ( on the calculation of any shaped arch dam according to the shell theory , construction technology 1956). In 1962 he opened his own engineering office in Aarau . He designed numerous bridges. His first draft for a bridge project was purchased after participating in a national Swiss competition in 1954. His bridges include the bridge over the Aare near Döttingen (1972), the bridge over the Aare near Ruppoldingen (1978) and 1980/81 the second Rhone bridge near Brig in Valais . He also designed a suspension bridge over the Bosporus (1965), which was not built there, but in 1973 in South Korea (on a smaller scale). He dealt with a wide variety of building structures, including landslides, arch dams, breakwaters, and tunnel construction.

Herzog published numerous articles (including in civil engineering , steel construction , civil engineering and concrete and reinforced concrete construction ) and several books with simplified structural calculations and damage analyzes. He developed static approximation methods, for example for arch dams, and also dealt with the history of construction technology.

He married in 1957 and had five children. He lived in Solothurn .

Fonts

From 1954 onwards, Herzog published over 340 articles. His books include:

• Elementary tunnel dimensioning. Werner Verlag, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-8041-2076-8 .
• Elementary calculation of rope bridges. Werner Verlag, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-8041-2083-0
• Short structural strength theory. Werner Verlag, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-8041-2031-8 .
• Examples of verifiable proof of strength with practical building approximations. 4 volumes. Werner Verlag, Düsseldorf 1994/95 (vol. 1 building and industrial construction, vol. 2 bridge construction, vol. 3 foundation, port and tunnel construction, vol. 4 structural hydraulic engineering).
• Cases of damage in reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete construction , Werner Verlag 2000
• Damage cases in steel construction and their causes , Werner Verlag 1998
• Elementary dam statics , Werner Verlag 1998
• Practical design of reinforced concrete shells , Werner Verlag, 1997
• Brief history of practical structural analysis and dynamics in practice , Werner Verlag 2010
• Simplified dimensioning in steel and composite construction , Werner Verlag 1997
• Economic reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete design , 5 volumes, Berlin: Bauwerk-Verlag 2001–2005

His essays include:

• Development of constructive concrete construction. A short portrait , Beton- und Stahlbetonbau Spezial, Ernst und Sohn 2005

literature

• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : Max Herzog 80 years. In: Structural Engineering. November 2006, p. 965 f.
• Autobiographical notes in Klaus Stiglat (Ed.): Civil engineers and their work. Ernst and Son, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-433-01665-8 , p. 180 ( online ).
• Obituary in Stahlbau, Volume 81, 2012, Issue 7, p. 588
• Karl-Eugen Kurrer: The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 1007 (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Herzog in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry in structurae with selection of fonts