Roman Ciesielski

Roman Ciesielski

Roman Ciesielski (born November 4, 1924 in Krakow , † June 9, 2004 in Wroclaw ) was a Polish civil engineer.

During the Second World War, he had to break off high school and completed civil engineering training. From 1943 he was a skilled worker at Hochtief-Hahn in Krakow, also took part in the resistance, for which he received the Polish Cross of Valor in 1944. After the war he caught up with his school leaving certificate and studied civil engineering at the Mining Academy in Cracow and, after the establishment of the Polytechnic at this. In 1947 he became an assistant at the chair for structural engineering and in 1948 he received his diploma. Then he designed chimneys up to 300 meters high in the construction industry. In 1958 he received his doctorate at the Polytechnic on dynamics of rod systems in Cracow and in 1961 his habilitation in building dynamics. In 1963 he became associate professor and in 1975 full professor at the Polytechnic. In 1981/82 he was rector. Ciesielski was well connected internationally and organized many conferences.

He dealt with structural dynamics, in which he introduced dynamic influence scales, the so-called Ciesielski scales, and examined the propagation of vibrations, for example from explosions or rail traffic, in the ground - he called this "paraseismic". He also dealt with tower-like structures such as industrial chimneys, structures subject to tension, machine foundations and bridges.

In 1971 he became a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, on whose Presidium he was from 1987 to 1996. For many years he was in the management of the Polish Association of Civil Engineers and Technicians (PZITB), which after his death donated a Ciesielski medal in his honor.

literature

• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 980 (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9

Fonts

• Containers, bunkers, silos, chimneys, television towers and overhead line masts , Ernst and Son 1970

Web links

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