Ryszard Dabrowski

Ryszard Dabrowski (born January 3, 1924 in Hrodna , † April 17, 2004 in Danzig ) was a Polish civil engineer.

Dabrowski received his Abitur when the German occupation troops marched in in 1941. He worked at the Grodno District Building Department and came to Gdansk after the war as part of the resettlement measures, where he studied at the Technical University. He was Witold Nowacki's assistant and received his doctorate in 1957 with a dissertation on the stability of the single girder bridge. In 1958 he became a lecturer and in 1973 a professor. From 1950 to 1957 he also worked as a checking engineer, mainly in the reconstruction of the Polish shipyards. In 1991 he retired.

In 1963 he was visiting professor at Columbia University .

He published a monograph on curved thin-walled girders and, for example, on hydraulic steelwork. Dabrowski translated Karl Girkmann's monograph on wing structures into Polish.

He was a co-founder of the Polish Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.

literature

• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : History of Structural Analysis. In search of balance , Berlin: Ernst & Sohn 2016, p. 964f (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03134-6

Fonts

• Curved thin-walled beams. Theory and calculation, Springer 1968
• The tightened elastostatic relationships of the second order theory for spatial framework structures, Stahlbau, Volume 45, 1976, pp. 252-254.
• For static silo pressure in a circular cylinder with a cone funnel or cone base, Bautechnik, Volume 66, 1989, pp. 281–286.