Robert H. Scanlan
Robert H. Scanlan (born 1914 in Chicago ; † May 27, 2001 in Lawrenceville , New Jersey ) was an American engineer specializing in aeronautics and wind loading in civil engineering .
Scanlan graduated from the University of Chicago with a Masters Degree in Mathematics and received a PhD in Mathematics and Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . During World War II he was with Republic Aviation in New York as an aeroelasticity engineer. After the war he was with the Federal Aviation Administration and then at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute . A book emerged from his investigations into vibrations in aircraft that became a standard work. He then went to the Sorbonne , where he received his PhD in mechanics, worked at Schlumberger, the Case Institute of Technology (where he was involved in the early stages of dynamic pile test development with George G. Goble until 1966 ), Princeton University and from 1984 at Johns Hopkins University , where Homewood became a professor . At Princeton and at Johns Hopkins he made a name for himself in a second area, the behavior of large building structures (such as bridges, cooling towers, skyscrapers) under wind loads. He wrote a book about this, too, which became a standard work. He advised on several large bridge projects such as the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, the Cape Shui Mun Bridge in Hong Kong .
He has received the James Croes Medal, the Nathan M. Newmark Medal , the Von Karman Medal, and the Wellington Prize of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Mechanics .
He was married with two sons and two daughters.
Fonts
- with Robert Rosenbaum Introduction to the study of Aircraft Vibration and Flutter , New York, Macmillan 1951, Dover 1968
- with Emil Simiu: Wind effects on large structures: fundamentals and applications to design , 3rd edition, Wiley 1996, Dover 2008 (first in 1978 as Wind effects on structures: an introduction to wind engineering )
- K. Yusuf Billah, Robert H. Scanlan: Resonance, Tacoma Narrows Bridge failure, and undergraduate physics textbooks . In: American Journal of Physics. 59, No. 2, 1991, pp. 118-124
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scanlan, Robert H. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 27, 2001 |
| Place of death | Lawrenceville , New Jersey |