Stanley D. Wilson

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Stanley D. Wilson (born August 12, 1912 - November 17, 1985 ) was an American civil engineer ( geotechnical engineering ).

Wilson studied at Harvard University with Arthur Casagrande and was there from 1948 to 1953 Assistant Professor. During this time he dealt, among other things, with previous loads in cohesive soils for settlement control. In 1954 he founded the Shannon and Wilson geotechnical engineering laboratory with William L. Shannon (the company's president), which still exists today and is headquartered in Seattle . In 1978 he retired as Vice President.

He dealt in particular with dam construction (including instrumentation), landslides and their stabilization, earthquakes (including investigations after the Alaska earthquake in 1964), foundations and geotechnical field measurements.

In 1969 he gave the Terzaghi Lecture . In 1985 he received the Rickey Medal of the ASCE for his contributions to dam construction. He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1967).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life dates according to Memorial Tributes National Academy of Engineering
  2. ^ Wilson Control of foundation settlements by preloading , J. Boston Society Civil Engineers, Volume 40, 1953, p. 396
  3. ↑ e.g. Wilson, Raul J. Marsal Current trends in design and construction of embankment dams , ASCE 1979
  4. ^ Wilson, Shannon, Meese Field measurements in Gerald A. Leonards Foundation Engineering , McGraw Hill 1962
personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Stanley D
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geotechnician
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1912
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1985