Max Mayer (engineer)

Max Mayer (born September 16, 1886 in Salzburg , † July 29, 1967 in Starnberg ) was a German civil engineer.

biography

Mayer received his doctorate in 1913 at the TH Munich (economic efficiency as a construction principle in reinforced concrete construction). From 1926 to 1930 he was a professor at the state building college in Weimar and then a consulting engineer in Munich.

With his book The Safety of Buildings from 1926, he was a pioneer in design using the load-bearing method and the introduction of safety factors. In the Göschen Collection, he published a book on nomography for civil engineers, books for an introduction to structural engineering and construction management.

Fonts

Taylor's suggestions for construction , Springer 1915
The safety of buildings and their calculation according to limit forces instead of permissible stresses , Springer, Berlin 1926 (66 pages)
Business administration: an overview of the lively work of civil engineers , Springer Verlag, Reference Library for Civil Engineers 5, Berlin 1926
Nomography of the civil engineer , Göschen Collection 1927
New statics of the structures made of rigid rods , Bauwelt-Verlag, Berlin 1937, 2nd edition 1942
Engineering management science , De Gruyter, Berlin 1936
The dimensions of the load-bearing components: guideline values for the builder, especially for the designing architect, for the estimation of the components , Bauwelt-Verlag, Berlin 1944
Living Structural Analysis , Volume 1: The static calculation, Bauwelt-Verlag, Berlin 1953
Static calculation , 2 volumes, 1953, 4th edition, Ullstein 1965, 1966 (with Ernst Zellerer, also translated into Spanish)

literature

Karl-Eugen Kurrer : History of Structural Analysis. In search of balance . Ernst and Son, Berlin 2016, p. 1007 (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03134-6 .

Web links

Estate, German Digital Library (correspondence with Friedrich Engesser )

Individual evidence

↑ The book was translated into English and Spanish in 1975 at the Technical Institute for Materials and Constructions (INTREMAC) in Madrid. Isaac Elishakoff, Safety factors and reliability: Friends or foes?, Springer 2004, p. 272. With biographical information on Mayer.

personal data
SURNAME	Mayer, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 16, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH	July 29, 1967
Place of death	Starnberg

[1] The book was translated into English and Spanish in 1975 at the Technical Institute for Materials and Constructions (INTREMAC) in Madrid. Isaac Elishakoff, Safety factors and reliability: Friends or foes?, Springer 2004, p. 272. With biographical information on Mayer.