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

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