Wilhelm Cornelius (engineer)

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Wilhelm Cornelius (born January 7, 1915 in Neunkirchen (Saar) , †  June 2, 1996 in Darmstadt ) was a German civil engineer and inventor of the orthotropic plate .

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Cornelius spent his school days in Wilhelmshaven . From 1935 to 1941 he studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt . He then worked as a research assistant at Kurt Klöppel . In 1944 he wrote his dissertation “The elastic bedded compression rod as a tension problem”. The reason for this dissertation topic was the collapse of the Frankenthal bridge over the Rhine , in which 30 construction workers died. In 1945 Cornelius began working as a design engineer in the bridge construction department at the MAN plant in Gustavsburg . He developed the theory of the orthogonal-anisotropic plate into a practically applicable calculation method for steel roadways in steel bridge construction. He was also on the reconstruction u. a. involved in the Mülheimer Brücke and the Kurpfalzbrücke in Mannheim . From 1953 Cornelius worked as an independent consulting engineer in Darmstadt. An example of his accomplishments during this period was the construction of the American pavilion for the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels . For his exceptional engineering achievements he received the VDI honor ring. He declined requests to apply for a chair at a technical university.

Honors

  • 1950: Winner of the VDI Ring of Honor
  • 1973: Honorary boy of the Corps Franconia Darmstadt

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patent DE847014 : Road bridge with flat sheet metal. Published October 2, 1952 , inventor: Wilhelm Cornelius. ‌
  2. ^ Karl-Eugen Kurrer : History of structural engineering. In search of balance. 2nd edition, Ernst & Sohn , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-433-03134-6 , p. 611 ff.
  3. ↑ Gerhard Sedlacek , M. Paschen: New ways in the reinforcement of orthotropic road slabs. Lecture, Bergisch Gladbach, 2008. (published online as PDF)
  4. ↑ Karl Girkmann : shell structure. Introduction to the elastostatics of panes, plates, shells and folds . Springer-Verlag, Vienna 1946.
  5. ^ Alfred Hawranek (†), Otto Steinhardt : Theory and calculation of steel bridges. Springer, Berlin et al. 1958. (Unchanged reprint under ISBN 978-3-540-02280-0 )
  6. ^ Wilhelm Cornelius: The elastic bedded compression rod as a tension problem. In: Stahlbau , 17th year 1944, p. 91, p. 97.
  7. ^ Wilhelm Cornelius. In: Klaus Stiglat: Civil engineers and their work. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-433-01665-8 , p. 112; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Cornelius, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen (Saar)
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1996
Place of death Darmstadt