Peter Amann (engineer)
Peter Amann (born August 13, 1941 in Munich ; † December 13, 2019 in Alsbach-Hähnlein ) was a German civil engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering .
Life
Amann studied civil engineering at the TH Darmstadt with a diploma in 1966 and specializing in structural engineering. After that he was in the construction industry. In 1975 he did his doctorate in Darmstadt under Herbert Breth on the settlement of Frankfurt skyscrapers. He worked with Breth on the numerical modeling of deep foundations . Rolf Katzenbach was also part of the Darmstadt group at the time . He then worked in Breth's engineering office before opening his own engineering office. With his engineering office he was internationally active, especially in the Middle East. His projects included deep excavations and foundations, tunnels, dams and landfills. In 1990 he became a full professor for foundation engineering and soil mechanics at the ETH Zurich as successor to Jachen Huder. In 2003 he retired early at his own request.
He dealt with special processes in civil engineering, the interaction of soil and structure in foundations, barriers in environmental geotechnics (such as landfills) and geotechnics in road construction.
In 2000 he received the Telford Prize with Lorenz Edelmann and Michael Hertweck.
literature
- Wolfgang Krajewski, Stephan Semprich: Obituary Prof. Dr. ‐ Ing. Peter Amann . In: geotechnics . tape 43 , no. 1 , 2020, p. 42–43 , doi : 10.1002 / gete.202070105 .
- Sarah Springman et al. a .: Ceremonial colloquium on the farewell of Prof. Dr. Peter Amann. Current problems in geotechnics, publications by the Institute for Geotechnics (IGT) at ETH Zurich, Volume 224, April 2006
Fonts
- with Herbert Breth, Dieter Stroh: Deformation behavior of the subsoil during excavation and subsequent high-rise construction using the example of the Frankfurt Clay, Research Institute for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (Darmstadt): Communications from the Research Institute for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering of the Technical University of Darmstadt, volume 15, 1975
- with M. Hertweck, L. Edelmann: Mechanical behavior of landfill barrier systems, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering, Volume 137, 1999, pp. 215-224
- with Hans-Jürgen Lang, Jachen Huder, Alexander Puzrin: Bodenmechanik und Grundbau, Springer, 9th edition 2011
Web links
- Obituary at ETH Zurich , January 8, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amann, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 2019 |
| Place of death | Alsbach chicken |