Heinz Duddeck#
Professor Dr.-Ing, Dr.—lng. E.h.
Born: 14. May 1928, Sensburg, Germany
Married, two sons
EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC CARREER
- Diplom-lngenieur Civil Engineering at Technical University Hannover 1949 -1954
- Exchange Student Bristol University UK 1995
- Dr.-lng. Technical University Hannover 1959
- Research Associate: Stanford University, California USA, 1959 — 1961
- Dr.-lng. habil. (teaching licence), TU Hannover 1963
- Full Professor since 1966: Structural analyses in Civil Engineering at Technical University Braunschweig
Teaching on: structural analysis, statics of structures, plasticity, plates and shells, tunnelling structures
Research on: structural analysis, non-linear models for material behavior, non-linear methods in engineering, finite-element-theory for structures and for geotechnical problems
Outlay and supervision of more than 80 doctoral theses
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
- 1956 -56 designing engineerfor structures
- 1961- 63 consulting bureau: Emch + Berger, Bern/Switzerland
- 1963 — 66 construction firm: Beton- und l\/lonierbau AG, Diisseldorf
- since 1967 Consulting Engineer with own bureau; analysis and design of many engineering structures, e.g. bridges, buldings, power plants, tunnels (more than 40), especially:
- shield driven and immersed tunnels,
- tunnels for the new rapid railway line in Germany,
- tunnels and caverns in rock and rock salt.
PUBLICATIONS
- 250 publications on structural engineering, analysis, tunnel structures, engineering education, engineering and society
- many lectures at international and national conferences
- scientific advisor Academie Journal since 1994
ACADEMIA
- since 197]: Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft
- since 1993: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (formerly Preußische Akademie), founding member
- since 1993: Academia Europaea
- since 2002: Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften acatech
AWARDS
- Scholarship of the US—National Academy of Sciences (1959-61)
- Honorable Dr.-lngr-Degree University Karlsruhe 1988
- South African National Committee on Tunnelling award for best lecture in 1985
- First place in teaching ranking 1993 and 1994
WORK IN SOCIETIES AND COMMISSIONS
- Dean civil engineering TU Braunschweig 1971 - 73
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Senat, Hauptausschuß 1978 - 84
- Chairman of TU Faculties 1971- 72 and 1986 - 87
- Chairman of Studienreform (curricula commissions)
- Niedersachsen 1980 - 83
- Federal Republic Germany 1984 - 89
- Member executive council International Tunnelling Association 1989 - 95
- Member scientific commission for Daimler Stiftung 1991 — 01
SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS
- Member of the commission to select the award winners (up to five) at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Member of selection commission for best Ph—Theses at TU of Braunschweig
- Member of the scientific commission to select papers for the Akademie-Journal, Union der Deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften
- Chairman of interdisciplinary discussions on technology and society at Benz- and Daimler-Stiftung in Ladenburg, resulting in two books
- Die Sprachlosigkeit der lngnieure (with Professor Mittelstraß, Philosophie)
- Technik im Wertekonflikt (to be published in 2001)
- Member of the section committee on physics and Engineering Sciences of the Academia Europaea