Witold Wierzbicki

Witold Wierzbicki (born January 26, 1890 in Warsaw , † January 30, 1965 there ) was a Polish civil engineer .

Wierzbicki studied civil engineering at the Institute for Transport Construction in Saint Petersburg with a diploma in 1916. In the same year he won the Rippas Prize. After the First World War he was back in Poland and rebuilt the railroad network on behalf of the government. In 1925 he received his doctorate and in 1926 he completed his habilitation at the Polytechnic in Warsaw. From 1929 to 1935 he taught engineering and geodesy in the forestry department of the agricultural college and then professor of structural engineering at the Warsaw Polytechnic.

His structural engineering textbook, first written in Polish in 1929, was a standard work in Poland. He is known for developing the statistical safety concept in structural engineering.

Fonts

• Building mechanics (Polish), 1929
• Building safety as a probable problem (Polish), Warsaw 1936
• La securité des constructions considerée comme probème de probabilité, 1946
• Application de la méthode semi-probabiliste au calcul des dimensions des constructions en acier, Proc. IABSE, Volume 6, 1960
• Probabilistic and semiprobabilistic methods for the investigation of structure safety, Arch. Mech. Stov., Warsaw 1957

literature

• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 1081 (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .