Nicholas N. Ambraseys

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Nicholas Neoclis Ambraseys ( Greek Νικόλαος Αμβράζης του Νεοκλή , transcription Nikolaos Amvrasis tou Neokli; born January 19, 1929 in Athens ; † December 28, 2012 in England ) was a Greek-British civil engineer and pioneer of geotechnical seismology .

Nicholas N. Ambraseys (own anglicized spelling) studied civil engineering at the Polytechnio (National Technical University in Athens) with a diploma in 1952 and at Imperial College in London , where he was a student of Alec Skempton and Alan W. Bishop and in 1958 with a dissertation on PhD in the seismic stability of earth dams. From 1958 he was a lecturer at Imperial College, from 1968 reader and from 1974 professor. In 1968 he founded the Engineering Seismology Section (ESEE) there and was its head until his retirement in 1994.

He founded the British National Committee of Earthquake Engineering and was its first chairman.

In 1997 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea . In 2004 he was the 44th Rankine Lecturer (Engineering Seismology and Geotechnics). Other honors were the election of Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE), Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) and 2003 full member of the Academy of Athens .

He was a co-founder of the Journal of Earthquake Engineering.

Fonts

"Nick" Ambraseys wrote 330 articles in specialist publications and seven books, including:

  • The seismic stability of earth dams, Dissertation, Imperial College 1958
  • About the calculation of earthquake-proof earth dams, VDI magazine, Volume 102, 1960, pp. 1241-1243
  • The seismic behavior of earth dams, Proc. 2. World Conference Earthquake Engineering, Tokyo, 1960, Volume 1, pp. 331-358
  • The seismic stability of earth dams, Proc. 2. World Conf. Earthquake Engineering, Tokyo, 1960, Vol. 2, pp. 1345-1363
  • with C. Melville: Seismicity of the British Isles and the North Sea, Publ. Marine Techn. Inst. 1983
  • (with Charles Melville): A History of Persian Earthquakes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1982, ISBN 0-521-24112-X .
  • (with Robin Dartrey Adams): Seismicity of Egypt, Arabia and the Red Sea . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1994, ISBN 0-521-39120-2 .
  • (together with Caroline F. Finkel): The Seismicity of Turkey and Adjacent Areas. A historical review 1500-1800 . Eren Press, Istanbul 1995, ISBN 975-7622-38-9 .
  • (together with Ragnar Sigbjörnsson): Re-appraisal of Seismicity of Iceland. Polytechnica Pub., Reykjavík 1999.
  • (with Robin Dartrey Adams): The Seismicity of Central America. A descriptive catalog 1898-1995. Imperial College Press, London 2001, ISBN 1-86094-244-X .
  • Earthquakes in the Mediterranean and Middle East. A multidisciplinary study of seismicity up to 1900. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-87292-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former Members: Nicholas Ambraseys. Academia Europaea, accessed July 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ List of members of the Academy ( Memento from December 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 30, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Ambraseys, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ambraseys, NN; Ambraseys, Nicholas Nicholas (full name); Αμβράζης, Νικόλαος Νικόλαος (Greek script)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek-British civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2012
Place of death England