Wacław Olszak
Wacław Olszak (born October 24, 1902 in Karviná , † December 8, 1980 in Udine ) was a Polish civil engineer.
Life
Olszak was an excellent student at the TH Wien (1920 to 1925) and then at the Sorbonne . He was a successful civil engineer in south-west Poland, but fell seriously ill after a trip to the Middle East in 1927. He received his doctorate in 1933 at the Vienna University of Technology and in 1934 at the Warsaw Polytechnic. In 1937 he completed his habilitation at the Mining Academy in Warsaw. During the Second World War he made a living as a factory worker and truck driver. He turned down offers for chairs in Vienna, Munich and Dresden and in 1946 became professor at the Mining Academy in Cracow. From 1952 he was professor for strength theory at the Polytechnic in Warsaw, from which Olszak later made the chair for elasticity and plasticity theory. In 1967 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Since 1969 he was a member of the Académie des Sciences .
He contributed to the theory of plasticity, viscoelasticity and prestressed concrete.
With Witold Nowacki he organized the Center International des Sciences Mecaniques in Udine.
Fonts
- with z. Mróz: The method of inversion in the theory of plates, Proc.IABSE, Volume 16, Zurich 1956
- with J. Ryschlewski, W. Urbanowski: Plasticity under nonhomogeneous conditions, in Advances in Applied Mechanics VII, Academic Press 1962
- with Z. Mróz, P. Perzyna: Recent trends in the development of the theory of plasticity, Oxford, Pergamon Press, Warsaw, PWN 1963
- with A. Sawczuk: Inelastic behavior in shells, Groningen: Noordhoff 1967
literature
- Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 1041f (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .
Web links
- Member entry of Waclaw Olszak at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Individual evidence
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter O. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 28, 2020 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Olszak, Waclaw |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karviná |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 1980 |
| Place of death | Udine |