Thomas Malcolm Charlton

Thomas Malcolm Charlton (born September 1, 1923 in South Normanton , Derbyshire , † February 1, 1997 in Burwell (Cambridgeshire) ) was a British civil engineer and technical historian.

Charlton came from a family of miners and studied civil engineering at the University of Nottingham with a degree in 1943. He then worked as an engineer for CL Blackburn at the Royal Radar Establishment in Great Malvern and after the war in its construction company in Newcastle, which was mainly active in power plant construction . In 1954 he became a lecturer at Cambridge University and in 1963 a professor at Queen's University Belfast . He was the dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology. In the Northern Ireland conflict he was on the scientific advisory board of the Ulster Defense Regiment under General John d'Arcy Anderson . In 1970 he became a Jackson Professor at the University of Aberdeenand used the opportunities of the offshore industry in the North Sea to expand the engineering there. In 1979 he retired for health reasons.

He dealt with the history of structural engineering and published a book about it.

In 1973 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

literature

• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : History of Structural Analysis. In Search of Balance , Ernst & Sohn 2016, p. 979 (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03134-6

Fonts

• Model analysis of structures, Wiley 1954
• Energy Principles in Applied Statics, London: Blackie 1959
• Contributions of Navier and Clebsch to the theory of statically-indeterminate frames, The Engineer, Volume 210, 1960, pp. 712-713.
• Analysis of Statically Indeterminate Structures, London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1961, 2nd edition Oxford UP 1973
• Some early work on energy methods in theory of structures, Nature, Volume 196, 1962, pp. 734-736.
• Maxwell-Michell theory of minimum weight of structures, Nature, Vol. 200, 1963, pp. 251-252.
• Maxwell, Jenkin and Cotterill and the theory of statically-indeterminate structures, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Volume 26, 1971, pp. 233-246.
• Contributions to the science of bridge-building in the nineteenth century by Henry Moseley, Hon. LlD, FRS and William Pole, D. Mus., FRS, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Volume 30, 1976, p. 169 -179.
• Theoretical work. In: Alfred Pugsley (ed.), The works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, London, The Institution of Civil Engineers, University of Bristol, 1976, pp. 183-202
• A note on the contributions of Cotterill, Castigliano, Crotti and Engesser to an energy principle of structures, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Volume 20, 1978, pp. 659-664.
• A history of theory of structures in the nineteenth century, Cambridge University Press 1982