Thomas Paulay
Thomas Paulay | |
|---|---|
| Born | 26 May 1923 Sopron, Hungary |
| Died | 28 June 2009 (aged 86) Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Alma mater | University of Canterbury |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | The coupling of shear walls. (1969) |
Thomas Paulay OBE OoM (26 May 1923 – 28 June 2009) was a Hungarian-New Zealand earthquake engineer.
Academic career
Trained as chemical engineer, after fleeing Hungary to West Germany, Paulay arrived in New Zealand in 1951,[1] and became a naturalised New Zealand citizen in 1957.[2] After a PhD 'The coupling of shear walls',[3] in 1961, he joined the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Canterbury, where he spent many years studying the seismic behaviour and design of structures.[1][4][5]
In the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours, Paulay was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to civil engineering.[6]
Paulay delivered the fourth Mallet–Milne memorial lecture for the Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics, in London in 1993.[7]
Selected works
- Seismic design of reinforced concrete and masonry buildings, ISBN 0471549150
- Simplicity and confidence in seismic design, ISBN 047194310X
- Reinforced concrete structures, ISBN 0471659177
References
- ^ a b "Thomas Paulay « Obituaries « Fellowship « The Academy « Our Organisation « Royal Society of New Zealand". Royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
- ^ "New Zealand, naturalisations, 1843–1981". Ancestry.com Operations. 2010. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
- ^ Paulay, T. (1969). The coupling of shear walls (PhD). University of Canterbury. doi:10.26021/2017.
- ^ Priestley, Nigel (2009). "Thomas Paulay Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering University of Canterbury (1923–2009)". Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics. 38 (13): 1461–1464. doi:10.1002/eqe.963.
- ^ "Tom Paulay, New Zealand". Iabse.org. 17 September 2008. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
- ^ "No. 50553". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 14 June 1986. p. 32.
- ^ Campbell, Andy (May 2016). "The fifteenth Mallet–Milne lecture". Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. 14 (5): 1333–1336. doi:10.1007/s10518-016-9869-8.
External links
- google scholar
- institutional homepage Archived 8 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
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