Karl von Terzaghi
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Austrian geotechnical engineer known as the "father of soil mechanics"
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Karl von Terzaghi's Degrees
- PhD Civil Engineering Graz University of Technology
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Karl von Terzaghi was an Austrian mechanical engineer, geotechnical engineer, and geologist known as the "father of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering". Early life In 1883, he was born the first child of Army Lieutenant-Colonel Anton von Terzaghi, of Italian origin, and Amalia Eberle in Prague, in what is now the Czech Republic. Upon his father's retirement from the army, the family moved to Graz, Austria.
Karl von Terzaghi's Published Works
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- Theoretical Soil Mechanics (1943) (6839)
- Soil mechanics in engineering practice (1948) (4252)
- EVALUATION OF COEFFICIENTS OF SUBGRADE REACTION (1955) (664)
- Mechanism of Landslides (1950) (557)
- Stability of Steep Slopes on Hard Unweathered Rock (1962) (298)
- STRESS DISTRIBUTION IN DRY AND IN SATURATED SAND ABOVE A YIELDING TRAP-DOOR (1936) (267)
- Soil mechanics in engineering practice; second edition (1967) (260)
- 45TH JAMES FORREST LECTURE, 1939. SOIL MECHANICS - A NEW CHAPTER IN ENGINEERING SCIENCE (1939) (102)
- From theory to practice in soil mechanics (1960) (78)
- Rock tunneling with steel supports (1946) (75)
- A FUNDAMENTAL FALLACY IN EARTH PRESSURE COMPUTATIONS (1936) (64)
- GENERAL WEDGE THEORY OF EARTH PRESSURE (1941) (64)
- Influence of geological factors on the engineering properties of sediments (1955) (48)
- From theory to practice in soil mechanics; selections from the writings of Karl Terzaghi (1960) (36)
- Stability and Stiffness of Cellular Cofferdams (1945) (33)
- GEOLOGIC ASPECTS OF SOFT-GROUND TUNNELING (1950) (28)
- Record earth pressure testing machine (1932) (22)
- Mission Dam an Earth and Rockfill Dam on a Highly Compressible Foundation (1964) (21)
- DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SASUMUA DAM. (PAPER ALSO INCLUDES AN APPENDIX BY R.H.S. ROBERTSON ENTITLED `A MINERALOGICAL ANALYSIS OF SASUMUA CLAY`). (1958) (21)
- Dam Foundation on Sheeted Granite (1962) (20)
- Discussion of Rockfill Dams: Salt Springs And Lower Bear River Concrete Face Dams by I. C. Steele and J. Barry Cooke (1960) (17)
- Earth Pressure and Shearing Resistance of Plastic Clay: A Symposium: Liner-Plate Tunnels on the Chicago (IL) Subway (1943) (15)
- DISCUSSION ON PAPER NO. 6252: DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SASUMUA DAM. (1958) (11)
- Closure of "Anchored Bulkheads" (1954) (7)
- Sedimentation of Fraser River Delta, British Columbia: DISCUSSION (1962) (7)
- Design and Performance of Vermilion Dam (1958) (6)
- Origin and Functions of Soil Mechanics (1953) (5)
- Shipways with Cellular Walls on a Marl Foundation (1947) (4)
- Stabilization of an Ore Pile by Drainage (1957) (3)
- EFFECT OF THE TYPE OF DRAINAGE OF RETAINING WALLS ON THE EARTH PRESSURE (1936) (2)
- SOIL MECHANICS IN ENGINEERING PRACTICE: SCOUR AND SCOUR PREVENTION AT BOUNDARIES (1948) (2)
- Soil mechanics in engineering practice / by Karl Terzaghi and R.B. Peck (1964) (1)
- Closure of "General Wedge Theory of Earth Pressure" (1941) (1)
- Discussion of Rockfill Dams: Wishon And Courtright Concrete Face Dams by J. Barry Cooke (1960) (0)
- To the Participants of the Research Conference on Shear Strength of Cohesive Soils at the University of Colorado, June 1960 (1960) (0)
- Soil mechanics in engineering practice / Karl Terzaghi and Ralph B. Peck (1967) (0)
- Discussion of Geology in Highway Engineering by Marshall T. Huntting (1945) (0)
- DISCUSSION. SOME APPLICATIONS OF SOIL TEST RESULTS TO THE DESIGN OF SIMPLE FOUNDATIONS. STRUCTURAL & BUILDING ENGINEERING DIVISION. (1946) (0)
- Closure of "Design And Performance of Vermilion Dam" (1960) (0)
- Discussion of Field Study of a Sheet-Pile Bulkhead by C. Martin Duke (1953) (0)
- Origin of oil in the Wilmington field in California (1950) (0)
- Life and Living (1889) (0)
- Closure of "Stability and Stiffness of Cellular Cofferdams" (1945) (0)
- Discussion: “Boundary Film Investigations” (Needs, Sydney J., 1940, Trans. ASME, 62, pp. 331–339) (1940) (0)
- Discussion of Relation of Undisturbed Sampling to Laboratory Testing by P. C. Rutledge (1944) (0)
- Landforms and subsurface drainage in the Gačka Region in Yugoslavia;Landforms and subsurface drainage in the Gačka Region in Yugoslavia (1958) (0)
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