Raymond L. Bisplinghoff

Raymond Lewis Bisplinghoff (born February 7, 1917 in Hamilton , Ohio , † March 5, 1985 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American aircraft engineer.

Bisplinghoff was the son of a miller and studied physics and aircraft technology at the University of Cincinnati (AE in aeronautics in 1940, master's degree in physics in 1942). He wanted to do a PhD in physics, but was prevented by World War II, in which he served two years as an engineer at Wright Airfield studying vibrations from aircraft such as the flutter of aircraft wings, and three years as a Navy officer with the US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics was. In 1946 he became an assistant professor of aircraft technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in 1953 a professor. In 1951/52 he took part in the atomic bomb tests on the Eniwetok Atoll. In 1957 he received his doctorate (Sc. D.) from the ETH Zurich . From 1957 he was deputy director of the aeronautics department at MIT. He was also a manager at NASA . In 1962/63 he was director of the Office of Advanced Research and Technology at NASA and in the late 1960s he was head of the NASA Research & Technology Council, responsible for evaluating the Apollo missions. In 1966 he became head of the aeronautics and astronautics department at MIT and in 1968 dean of the School of Engineering.

In 1970 he became associate director of the National Science Foundation and in 1974 Chancellor of the University of Missouri . Most recently, he was Senior Vice President, Research at Tyco Laboratories in Exeter , New Hampshire .

In 1948 he did pioneering work in the statics and dynamics of swept wings for supersonic flight . The report, completed in 1948 for the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, was known as the great blue bible to aircraft designers and was incorporated into his 1955 book Aeroelasticity .

He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences . In 1966 he became president of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, whose Sylvanus Reed Award he had received in 1958. In 1967 he received the Distinguished Service Medal from NASA and in 1973 the Distinguished Service Award from the National Science Foundation. From 1978 to 1982 he was President of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences .

Fonts

• Aeroelasticity , Addison-Wesley 1955
• with H. Ashley: Principles of Aeroelasticity , Wiley 1961
• with JW Mar: Statics of deformable solids , Addison-Wesley 1965
• History of Aeroelasticity , in H. Flomenhoft (Ed.), The revolution of structural mechanics , Palm Beach Gardens, Dynaflo Press 1997, pp. 3-33

literature

• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The history of the theory of structures , Ernst & Sohn 2008, p. 717

Web links

• Biography at NAS