World Famous Structural Engineers (Top 20)

Structural engineering is a very complicated system engineering, which cannot be completed by one person. But many times, the structural engineer has made leading and decisive work and contribution, which does not mean that all the work is done by him alone. So who are the world-famous structural engineers? Let's get to know each other!

Vladimir Shukhov (1853~ 1939).

Mr. Shukhov is definitely a great god. I don't know why many people pursue Tesla, but no one knows Shuckhoff. Shukhov is a pioneer in studying the practical mathematical analysis method of stress and strain of beam, shell and membrane system under elastic theory. With the help of research in this field, he creatively developed hyperbolic shell towers, reticulated shells, tension structures, reticulated shells and various structural systems such as oil storage tanks, oil pipelines, industrial boiler towers, ships and barges. In addition, he is a chemical engineer, mechanical engineer and equipment engineer. He designed oil? Shuckhoff cracked it? New technological process, new oil pump, new boiler using cracked oil residue as fuel, oil pipeline network in Baku Oilfield, and main water supply and drainage pipelines in several cities. In addition, some architects may be familiar with the name melnikov. Shukhov and melnikov have cooperated in several construction projects and worked for melnikov. Of course, the most famous thing is that many unique ones still stand on Russian soil today. Shukhoff? Hyperbolic shell tower.

Robert Melar (1872~ 1940).

Maillart graduated from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and is a senior engineer in Zurich. He is a pioneer of concrete structure and a structural engineer highly respected by David Billington. In that era when concrete was just emerging, Maillart endowed the concrete structure with spirituality and vitality, and invented the beamless floor and mushroom cap. His outstanding achievement is his concrete bridge design, especially the concrete three-hinged arch, which is a perfect combination of strength and beauty. Salginatobel Bridge, an outstanding work, was rated as the most beautiful bridge in the 20th century by the International Bridge Association and listed as a historical heritage of civil engineering by ASCE. Maillart's ingenious application of graphic analysis, I think, can still give engineers inspiration and creativity.

Osma Oman (1879~ 1965)

1964 National Science Award. Oman is also a graduate of ETH, a senior engineer in Zurich. Like Maylath, she studied under Professor William Ritter. Since then, he has practiced in the United States. As a top bridge engineer, Oman is based in new york and has designed many long-span bridges connecting Manhattan, new york and New Jersey, including George Washington Bridge, bayonne Bridge, Vilaca Novo-narros Bridge and Bronx? Baishiqiao, Triboro Bridge. Amman also participated in the design of the Golden Gate Bridge as a consultant.

Eugene Fraissinet (1879~ 1962)

1957 is truct gold medal. With the contemporary Maillart, it is also called concrete Gemini, the pioneer of prestressed concrete. Completed a large number of design works, including self-anchored suspension bridge, concrete arch bridge, prestressed concrete beam bridge, rigid frame bridge and so on. Similar to Hirai and leonhardt, Fraissinet's company has trained outstanding French structural engineers such as Michel Villlogue, Jean Mueller and Michel Placidi. FIB's structural concrete medal is named after Freyssinet.

Pier Luigi Nervi (189 1~ 1979)

1967 is truct gold medal. ? A specific poet? Nervi is one of them. He was born in Italy and graduated from the University of Bologna. Nervi's outstanding contribution is to improve the design theory of concrete. With the help of the situation of large-scale construction after World War II, concrete has successfully become the mainstream building structural material, and the high-rise concrete shear wall system has become the mainstream solution. As a structural engineer, Nervi is good at concrete thin shell, ribbed shell and folded plate thin shell, and has a deep understanding of concrete prefabrication. The shell he designed and built is not only beautiful, reasonable in stress and material-saving, but also short in construction period and highly prefabricated. Representative works include the stadium of Rome Olympic Games and the conference hall of UNESCO headquarters.

Sir Arup (1895~ 1988)

1973 is truct gold medal. Sir Arup was born in England and graduated from the Danish University of Technology. Later, he founded his own engineering company and built some temporary prefabricated concrete ports for the Allies during World War II. Later, he founded the famous Arup engineering consulting company. Today, Arup has business all over the world and has become a giant in the field of engineering consulting and design. Arup's talent in business and management is amazing. In addition, as a structural engineer, Arup's representative works include Highpoint I, Sydney Opera House and Kingsgate footbridge, all of which are early experiments of high-rise concrete shear wall system. Arup herself likes Kingsgate footbridge very much. After his death, his family scattered his ashes on the bridge according to his wishes.

Eduardo Torroja (1899~ 196 1).

Toroja was also a concrete poet, the founder and the first president of IASS. Among Spanish engineers, he inherited Gaudi and inspired Candeira. Toroja is good at the design and analysis of concrete shell, cantilever, space reticulated shell and prestressed concrete. During the difficult period before and after the Spanish Civil War, he completed many beautiful works with the least materials and the lowest cost. Professor Luo of China worships Toroja the most, and the book Conceptual Design and Case of Architectural Structure specifically lists Toroja's works. The IASS Lifetime Achievement Award, named after Toroja, is awarded to structural engineers who have made contributions to space structural engineering.

Yoshikatsu Hirai (Hiroshi Hirai)

(1907 ~1990)1976 IASS Toloha award, chairman of iass. Yasuo Hirai is an outstanding Japanese engineer. In the golden age of Japan's postwar economic take-off, Yasuo Hirai cooperated with architect Kenzo Tan to complete many landmark projects, including the Yoyogi Gymnasium of Tokyo Olympic Games and the Osaka World Expo venue. At the same time, Kazuo Hirai is better than leonhardt in Japan and is committed to training young engineers. He is a master in the Japanese industry who pays attention to learning from tradition. Kazuo Hirai has also participated in many works of IASS, and IASS has specially set up the Kazuo Hirai Prize for Excellent Papers.

Fritz Leonhardt (1909~ 1999)

1975 is truct gold medal, 198 1 IABSE international bridge association medal. Leonhardt studied at Purdue University and Stuttgart University, then taught at Stuttgart University, and owned his own engineering consulting company. He is schleich's mentor and guide, and schleich's career began with leonhardt Company. Leonhardt has made outstanding contributions to the development of modern cable-stayed bridges, concrete TV towers and box girder bridges, invented and improved the jacking construction method, and designed a large number of exquisite suspension bridges, cable-stayed bridges and concrete towers. Leonhardt's works also include the famous Munich Olympic Stadium. The Structural Engineer Award of German Engineers Association is named after leonhardt.

Felix Candeira (19 10~ 1997)

1960 is truct gold medal. Candela is an architect who knows the structure, but his understanding of the structure is very profound, probably surpassing many structural engineers. Candela is most famous for his thin concrete shell, which almost brought the beauty and elegance of the concrete shell to the extreme. His representative works include "Los Manantiales Restaurant" and "L'Oceanogr? Fic Restaurant, 1968 Olympic Stadium in Mexico City. The petal-shaped shell of the legendary Los Manantiales restaurant spans 30 meters and is only 4 cm thick, which is amazing.

Lin Dongyan (Lin Tongyan)

(19 12 ~ 2003) Academician of American Academy of Engineering, 1986 National Science Award. Lin Tongyan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and later taught there. Lin Tongyan's greatest achievement is his research and development of prestressed concrete, which greatly promotes the large-scale application of prestress in practical projects. ASCE, the American Society of Civil Engineers, named its prestressed concrete prize the Lin Tongyan Prize. Meanwhile, Lin Tongyan also has its own engineering consulting company. The engineering design includes the Bank of America building and several bridges that stand on the ruins of Nicaragua earthquake. In addition, there is an unfinished Ruck-A-Chucky curve suspension bridge still under design.

Heinz isler (1926~2009)

1996 iass toroja award, 2006 fresene award. Isler is also a graduate of ETH, a senior engineer in Zurich. He devoted his life to the design and construction of concrete shells, guarding the last glory of thin concrete shells and leaving many more beautiful concrete shells in beautiful Switzerland. He likes model design very much. Many projects have designed scale models, such as a membrane, which is hung up according to the supporting conditions, then poured with water and placed outdoors. The next morning, the water froze into ice and the film was reversed. The shape of this ice is the initial reasonable configuration of the concrete shell. It is said that Mr. Isler's small yard is full of small models, and Mr. Isler also made a small railway model with a small bridge model, in which toy trains pass every day. This kind of life is fascinating to think about.

Christian Menn (1927~)

2009 IABSE international bridge association medal. Menn is an excellent bridge engineer who teaches at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. His research field mainly focuses on prestressed concrete. In addition, there are a lot of engineering practices, mainly concrete bridges, especially slab cable-stayed bridges and low-pylon cable-stayed bridges. More than 100 projects have been completed, including Ganter Bridge and Sunniberg Bridge.

Leslie Robertson (1928~)

IStructE Gold Award in 2004, Khan Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004, and 201kloc-0/iabse International Bridge Association Medal. Robertson graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the founder of LERA and an expert in super-high-rise structures. Representative works include the Twin Towers of New York World Trade Center (September, 2006.11Terrorist attack destroyed +0), Shanghai World Financial Center, Bank of China Tower, and Hong Kong. Robertson and I.M. Pei have worked together many times. Li Ya is the structural consultant of Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, Suzhou Museum and Meixiu Art Museum in Japan.

Fazlul Khan (1929~ 1982)

1982 IABSE international bridge association medal, academician of American academy of engineering. Khan was born in Bangladesh and received his doctorate from UIUC in the United States. Since then, he has been working in SOM and is a partner of SOM. It can be said that Khan is a master of high-rise buildings. He put forward and perfected the concepts of pipe, truss pipe and bundle pipe, making SOM the leader of super-high-rise buildings and allowing human beings to break through the 400-meter mark within an economical and reasonable range. At the same time, Khan also put forward the design idea of elevator partition operation and elevator transfer floor, which solved the vertical traffic problem of super high-rise buildings. Representative works include Sears Tower, which has been the tallest building in the world for nearly 30 years, Hancock Center with truss tube system and so on. After his untimely death, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Council on High Buildings and Urban Habitat was named after him and awarded to structural engineers who contributed to high-rise structural engineering.

Joerg schleich (1934~)

1990 is truct gold award, leonhardt award in 2002, 199 1 IABSE international bridge association medal, IABSE toroja award in 2004, academician of American academy of sciences. I'm Mr. schleich's brain powder, just like the real thing Like Zheng Banqiao's? Under the Ivy Gate? I also want to carve a seal like this for myself. Schleich is a professor at Stuttgart University. His academic achievements include perfecting the tension-compression bar model of concrete. His outstanding work is his engineering practice. There are countless excellent works, and all kinds of patterns are all-encompassing. Large projects are economical and reasonable, while small projects are unique. Tsing Ma Bridge, Mumbai Bridge, A380 Workshop, Hanover World Expo Exhibition Hall, all kinds of overpass bridges, all kinds of footbridges, all kinds of folding bridges, all kinds of folding roofs, all kinds of glass curtain walls, cable domes? In addition, he also paid attention to energy issues, devoted himself to the research and development of related technologies of solar power plants, improved the technology and structure of hot air solar power plants, and put them into practice in Spain and Australia. Besides, Mr. schleich, like Einstein and Sherlock Holmes, loves playing the violin.

Cecil Balmond (1943~).

Balmond is actually closer to an architect who knows structural design. He is very close. Balmond is the vice chairman of Arup, currently in charge of the AGU advanced geometry group in Arup, and is also a visiting professor at Harvard and Yale. Balmond was born in Sri Lanka, then studied in England, then in Southampton and Imperial College London. Balmond is most famous for his cooperation with cutting-edge architects such as Koolhaas, toyo ito and Siza, which turned many dazzling works on paper into reality. Representative works: CCTV New Building, Snake Gallery. Balmond is very talented. He has written several books, No.9, Elemental, Informal, and he also loves music. But he gave up the guitarist when he reluctantly gave up what he wanted between the guitarist and the structural engineer. If you think CCTV short films are beyond your imagination, please see the picture on the right.

Michel Verlogue (1946~)

1996 is truct gold award, 1999 leonhardt award, 2003 IABSE international bridge association medal, 2006 Freyssinet award, academician of French academy of sciences. Graduated from High-tech Bridge College in Paris, France. Virlogeux started from Freyssinet's engineering company. He is a very outstanding bridge engineer, especially good at external prestressing and cable-stayed bridges, representing the world's tallest Miyo viaduct, Normandy Bridge and so on.

Santiago Calatrava (195 1~)

1992 is truct gold medal. Calatrava graduated from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and is a senior engineer in Zurich. He is a typical engineer and architect with two doors. His works pay attention to the expressive force of structure and sculpture, and are often inspired by bionics. He pursues dynamic balance. He is very good at designing foldable and rotatable structures. His works include various footbridges, landscape bridges, traffic buildings, art venues and so on. Mr Saito told a joke in the book "Development and Prospect of Spatial Structure" that two professors met and talked about calatrava. One of them immediately became independent on one leg, bent down and stretched out his arm, and did a yoga movement. They both smiled at each other. This is calatrava's personal unique mark.

William F. Baker (Bill Baker)

(1953 ~) 2010 ISTRUCT Gold Award, 2009 leonhardt Award, 2008 Khan Lifetime Achievement Award. Graduated from UIUC, SOM partner, top high-rise structure expert. Representative works include the tallest Burj Dubai, London Stock Exchange, Trump Tower in Chicago, Zifeng Tower in Nanjing and Infinite Tower in Dubai.