Robert Gasch

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Robert Gasch (born August 28, 1936 in Offenbach am Main ) is a German engineer and university professor at the TU Berlin .

Life

After completing a degree in mechanical engineering in Darmstadt , Gasch moved to the Technical University of Berlin, where he received a doctorate in 1967 with a dissertation on the subject of "Suitability of vibration measurement for determining dynamic stress in components". Ing. In 1970 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on "Self-excited bending vibrations of rotating shafts". In 1971 Gasch left the TU Berlin and went to Siemens-Kraftwerkunion in Mülheim (Ruhr) . There he developed the FEM program for the vibration calculation in the up to 60 m long, 10-fold slide bearing drive trains of modern turbo generators. Gasch returned to Berlin when he took over a professorship for structural dynamics and design calculation (1977) at the Institute for Aerospace Technology . His main research interests were in the areas of

  • Structural Dynamics (1972-77)
  • Rotor dynamics (1967-2001)
  • Rail vehicle dynamics, dynamics of the ICE drives (1974–84)
  • Wind turbine technology (1978-2001)

Triggered by several events in the 1970s, including the appearance of the 1972 study The Limits to Growth published by the Club of Rome , the 1973 and 1979/80 oil crises, and ultimately the serious reactor accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in 1979, was dedicated Finally, Gasch worked primarily in research into wind energy technology . To this end, Gasch founded a "Working Group on Wind Power Plants" at his institute as early as 1977 and from 1984 gave a lecture on wind power plants . At the same time, several scientific publications were produced, including the textbook "Windkraftanlagen", first published in 1991 and the 9th updated edition in 2016. This publication is now regarded as the standard work on wind energy technology.

In research, Gasch initially used v. a. on small wind turbines, as they were mass-produced in Denmark in the 1970s and 1980s . Gasch was skeptical about the ultimately failed Growian project , in which a technically not fully developed large-scale system was to be tested. While the Growian was developed at the end of the 1970s, with a rotor diameter of 100 meters, it was more than a factor of 3 larger than the largest existing machine at 30 meters, Gasch relied on continuous further development and expansion of existing systems. This proved to be the way to go in the long run.

From the beginning of the 80s he was also involved in the development of several different wind turbines from the south wind. Since 1986 Gasch worked closely with the Polytechnical University (NPU) in Xī'ān , in the fields of rotor dynamics with Liu, Qizhou and machine diagnostics with Liao, Mingfu. Supported by the DAAD , the latter set up what is probably the first Chinese course on the construction of wind turbines in 1997. In 1977 the joint institute of TU Berlin and NPU Xian, the "Institute for Monitoring and Control of Rotating Machinery and Windturbines", of which Gasch is co-director, was founded. In the courses in China on wind turbine technology financed by InWEnt (today integrated into GTZ-GIZ ) between 2002 and 2012, more than 1,000 Chinese engineers were trained. Klaus Knecht from InWEnt and Gasch were the key figures here. In 2009 at the celebrations for the founding of the People's Republic of China 60 years ago, Gasch was honored with the "Friendship Award for Foreign Experts" in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Others

He is the first chairman of the advisory board of the German Wind Power Museum in Stemwede-Oppendorf .

Works (selection)

  • Suitability of the vibration measurement for determining the dynamic stress in components , dissertation at the TU Berlin (West) 1967 ( DNB 482612487 ).
  • with Rainer Nordmann u. Herbert Pfützner: Rotordynamik , 2nd completely revised edition, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-540-41240-9 .
  • with Klaus Knothe u. Robert Liebich: Structural Dynamics. Discrete systems and continua , 2nd edition, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-540-88976-2 .
  • with Jochen Twele (ed.): Wind power plants. Basics, design, planning and operation. 9th updated edition Springer, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-12360-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katrin Diedrich Berlin - Research and Business Location for Wind Energy ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved January 28, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tsb-berlin.de
  2. ↑ Leopold Böswirth, Sabine Bschorer, Technical Fluid Mechanics. Text and exercise book . Wiesbaden 2014, p. 77.
  3. ↑ Jan Oelker, Christian Hinsch (eds). Wind faces. The emergence of wind energy in Germany , Dresden 2005, p. 114.
  4. ↑ a b History of wind turbines told at German museum . In: Windpower Monthly , July 12th August 2019. Accessed August 13th 2019.
  5. ^ Institute of Monitoring and Control for Rotating Machinery and Wind Turbines.Retrieved August 31, 2015.
  6. ^ Institute of Monitoring and Control for Rotating Machinery and Wind Turbines.Retrieved August 31, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Gasch, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and university professor at TU Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main