August Komendant
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American-Estonian structural engineer
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August Komendant's Degrees
- PhD Civil Engineering University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Civil Engineering University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Civil Engineering University of California, Berkeley
Why Is August Komendant Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, August Eduard Komendant was an Estonian and American structural engineer and a pioneer in the field of prestressed concrete, which can be used to build stronger and more graceful structures than normal concrete. He was born in Estonia and educated in engineering in Germany. After World War II he immigrated to the United States, where he wrote several books on structural engineering and served as a professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.
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