Jörg Schlaich

Infobox Engineer


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name = Jörg Schlaich
nationality = German
birth_date = 1934
birth_place = Kernen im Remstal-Stetten
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education = Stuttgart University
Technical University of Berlin
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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discipline = Structural engineer
institutions = Institution of Structural Engineers
practice_name = Schlaich Bergermann & Partner
significant_projects = Olympic Stadium, Munich
Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion
Solar updraft tower
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significant_advance = strut and tie model for reinforced concrete
significant_awards = IStructE Gold Medal, Werner von Siemens Ring

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Drs.h.c. Jörg Schlaich (born 1934) is a German structural engineer. he later founded his own firm Schlaich Bergermann und Partner.

Early career

Jörg Schlaich studied architecture and building engineering from 1953-55 at Stuttgart University before completing his studies at the Technical University of Berlin until 1959. He spent 1959-60 at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, USA.

In 1963 he joined the firm Leonhardt & Andrä, the firm founded by Fritz Leonhardt.

Later career

Schlaich was made a partner and was responsible for the Olympic Stadium, Munich. He stayed with the firm until 1969.

In 1974 he became an academic at Stuttgart University, and in 1980 he founded his own firm, Schlaich Bergermann & Partner.

In 1993, with the roof of the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion (since 2008 Mercedes-Benz-Arena) in Stuttgart, he introduced the "speichenrad" principle to structural engineering. Indeed, this principle was employed the first time in the history of Structural Engineering by the Italian engineer Massimo Majowiecki, the designer of the roof of the Olympic Stadium, Rome (built in 1990, three years before the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion). Since then, his company successfully employed it to stadium projects across the globe. Other structures include the observation tower at the Killesbergpark in Stuttgart. Most of his work as well of that of his company is documented on their website. He is also the developer of the solar tower (or solar chimney) and is largely credited with inventing the strut and tie model for reinforced concrete. [cite paper|author=Schlaich, J., K. Schäfer, M. Jennewein|title=Toward a Consistent Design of Structural Concrete|publisher=PCI Journal, Special Report, Vol. 32, No. 3|year=1987]

Further reading

* Schlaich, Jörg; Bergermann, Rudolf. "Leicht Weit (Light Structures)" ISBN 3791329189.
* Holgate, Alan. "The Art of Structural Engineering: The Work of Jorg Schlaich and his Team" (Books Britain, 1996) ISBN 3930698676.
* Schlaich, Jörg. "The Solar Chimney: Electricity from the Sun" ISBN 3930698692.
* Schlaich, Jörg; Rudolf Bergermann, Wolfgang Schiel & Gerhard Weinrebe (February 2005). "PDFlink| [http://www.sbp.de/de/html/contact/download/The_Solar_Updraft.pdf Design of Commercial Solar Updraft Tower Systems – Utilization of Solar Induced Convective Flows for Power Generation] |486 KiB ". "Journal of Solar Energy Engineering" 127 (1): 117-124. DOI: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.1823493 10.1115/1.1823493] . Retrieved on 2007-03-15.

External links

* [http://www.sbp.de Schlaich Bergermann und Partner (SBP) website]
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