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