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    Karl von Terzaghi (October 2, 1883 – October 25, 1963) was an Austrian mechanical engineer, geotechnical engineer, and geologist known as the "father...
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  • husband Karl Von Terzaghi in many of his geotechnical engineering and soil mechanics projects. (Peck, 1993, p. 91; Ogilvie, 2003, p. 1275) Terzaghi was born...
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  • opposed by the fluid pressure filling the pores in the material. Karl von Terzaghi introduced the idea in a series of papers in the 1920s based on his...
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    Originally known as the Mission Dam, it was renamed Terzaghi Dam in 1965 to honor Karl von Terzaghi, the civil engineer who founded the science of soil...
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    said to have begun in 1925 with the publication of Erdbaumechanik by Karl von Terzaghi, a mechanical engineer and geologist. Considered by many to be the...
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  • many different methods for computing when this failure will occur. Karl von Terzaghi was the first to present a comprehensive theory for the evaluation...
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  • the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In 1948, together with Karl von Terzaghi, Peck published the book Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice, an...
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    semester of his third year, during which he stopped attending lectures) Karl von Terzaghi, civil engineer and founder of soil mechanics Luis Trenker (1892–1990)...
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    September 28 – Berta Pīpiņa, Latvian politician (d. 1942) October 2 – Karl von Terzaghi, Austrian civil engineer and "father of soil mechanics" (d. 1963)...
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  • porous solids. Fillunger's theories put him in heated conflict with Karl von Terzaghi, who is often referred to as "father of soil mechanics", whom Fillunger...
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  • mathematician Antonín Svoboda, computer scientist and mathematician Karl von Terzaghi, geotechnical engineer and geologist Olga Taussky-Todd, mathematician...
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  • Şen - Civil engineer, hydrologist Erdoğan Şuhubi - Mathematician Karl von Terzaghi - Civil engineer, Founder of soil mechanics Yusuf Yağcı - Chemist...
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    he earned two Norman Medals, the State of the Art Award, and the Karl von Terzaghi Lectureship in 1994. Clough has also earned a George Westinghouse...
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  • 1955) 1882 – Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian colonel (d. 1945) 1883 – Karl von Terzaghi, Austrian geologist and engineer (d. 1963) 1890 – Groucho Marx, American...
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  • first methodologies for rock mass classification for engineering. Karl von Terzaghi developed the methodology for tunnels supported by steel sets in the...
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    designer Ferdinand Porsche, psychologist Max Wertheimer, a geologist Karl von Terzaghi, musicologists Eduard Hanslick and Guido Adler, chemist Johann Josef...
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    century ago, according to two different approaches, by Karl Terzaghi and Paul Fillunger. The Terzaghi’s model is currently the most utilized in engineering...
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  • Constance Georgina Adams (died 1968), South African botanist. October 2 – Karl von Terzaghi (died 1963), Austrian "father of soil mechanics". October 8 – Otto...
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    Lorimer (Dec 20, 1894-Oct 19, 1961), a student of geotechnical pioneer Karl von Terzaghi. Spencer's Method of analysis requires a computer program capable...
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  • starting in 1943, working with Donald Wood Taylor in 1948. He assisted Karl von Terzaghi and Taylor in their work as consultants. He was Professor of Civil...
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  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973 was awarded jointly to Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen 'for their discoveries concerning...
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  • (4): 257–259. doi:10.1007/BF01704946. S2CID 112250759. "News: Prof. Karl von Terzaghi". Nature. 143 (3627): 753. 6 May 1939. doi:10.1038/143753c0. "Professor...
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    Professor of Political Science, Rector of Işık University since 2004 Karl von Terzaghi – Civil engineer, known as the Father of Soil Mechanics Heath Lowry...
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  • Lepeshinskaya (born 1871), Soviet Lysenkoist biologist. October 25 – Karl von Terzaghi (born 1883), Austrian "father of soil mechanics". November 13 – Margaret...
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    Mohr-Coulomb equation. (It was called "Coulomb's equation" by Karl von Terzaghi in 1942.) (Terzaghi 1942) combined it with the principle of effective stress...
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    experiments involving dry samples (i.e. carried out at zero pore pressure). Karl von Terzaghi first proposed the relationship for effective stress in 1925. For...
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    the U.S. (1914–1925), Bulgarian representative to League of Nations Karl von Terzaghi, Austrian civil engineer, known as the "father of soil mechanics and...
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  • conglomerate Tata Group Thomas Telford Canals, roads and bridges Karl von Terzaghi Soil mechanics Tidjane Thiam Chief Financial Officer of Prudential...
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  • October 25 Björn Þórðarson, 9th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1879) Karl von Terzaghi, Austrian civil engineer and "father of soil mechanics" (b. 1883)...
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    humidity. Karl von Terzaghi started his consolidation research in 1919 at Robert College in Istanbul. Through these experiments, Terzaghi started to...
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