René Walther
René Walther (born March 8, 1928 in Basel ) is a Swiss civil engineer.
Life
Walther was the son of a mechanical engineer and studied civil engineering at the ETH Zurich with a diploma in 1952, researched the structural behavior of concrete at the Eidgenössische Materialprüfungsanstalt and studied from 1955 at Lehigh University , where he received his doctorate in 1957. He then worked as an engineer at Losinger AG in Bern until 1959. In 1959 Fritz Leonhardt brought him to the Technical University of Stuttgart , where he became head of the steel and concrete department at the Otto Graf Institute in 1963 . In 1963 he founded the engineering office Walther, Mory, Maier in Basel with Hans Mory and in 1975 he became professor for concrete structures at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne(EPFL) and was director of the Institute for Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete. In 1995 he retired.
He was particularly concerned with cable-stayed bridges (he designed the Rhine bridge Diepoldsau from 1985 and the Rhone bridge Saint-Maurice in 1986) and his research in this area enabled the construction of modern cable-stayed bridges with slender longitudinal girders. Together with and for Fritz Leonhardt, he carried out numerous experiments on reinforced concrete in Stuttgart. His projects included the underground car park of the Basel Cantonal Hospital (1972 to 1974) and the paper tower of the Swiss pavilion at the Seville World Exhibition in 1992.
He wrote an introductory textbook on reinforced concrete construction for architects and monographs on cable-stayed bridges. From 1989 he published the series Traité de génie civil de l'Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne . In 2005 he received the Fritz Leonhardt Prize , the Freyssinet Medal in 1994 and the Emil Mörsch Memorial Coin in 1993 . In 2001 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Stuttgart.
Fonts
- Construire en Béton, Synthesis pour architectes, Lausanne: Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, 1993
- German translation: Building with Concrete, Ernst and Son 1997
- Cable stayed bridges, London: Telford, 2nd edition 1999
- with B. Houriet, W. Isler, P. Moïa: Ponts haubanés , 1985
- with Paul Missbauer: Cable-stayed bridges, Düsseldorf, Beton-Verlag 1994
- with Fritz Leonhardt, O. Vogler: Torsion and shear tests on prestressed hollow box girders, Berlin: Ernst and Son 1968
- with Fritz Leonhardt, Walter Dilger: Shear tests on indirectly supported, single-span and continuous reinforced concrete beams, Berlin: Ernst and Son 1968
- with Fritz Leonhardt: Wall-like carriers, Berlin: Ernst and Son 1966
- with Fritz Leonhardt: Shear tests on continuous beams, Berlin, Ernst and Son 1964
- with Fritz Leonhardt: Shear tests on T-beams with different shear reinforcement, Berlin, Ernst and Son 1963
literature
- Klaus Stiglat: Civil engineers and their work , Ernst and Son 2003
Web links
- Fritz Leonhardt Prize 2005
- Bruno Meyer: René Walther. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Structurae
Individual evidence
- ↑ Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Engineers: Fritz Leonhardt Prize 2005 - René Walther
- ^ About cable-stayed bridges, 1st edition 1988
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walther, René |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |