Thomas Paulay | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born |
26 May 1923 Sopron, Hungary |
| Died |
28 June 2009 (aged 86) Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Residence | New Zealand |
| Alma mater | University of Canterbury |
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[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Thomas Paulay « Obituaries « Fellowship « The Academy « Our Organisation « Royal Society of New Zealand". Royalsociety.org.nz. http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/organisation/academy/fellowship/obituaries/thomas-paulay/. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
- ↑ "New Zealand, naturalisations, 1843–1981". Ancestry.com Operations. 2010. http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&db=NZNaturalisations&h=73910. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
- ↑ Paulay, T. (1969). The coupling of shear walls (PhD). University of Canterbury. Digital object identifier:10.26021/2017. https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/6348.
- ↑ Priestley, Nigel (2009). "Thomas Paulay Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering University of Canterbury (1923–2009)". pp. 1461–1464. Digital object identifier:10.1002/eqe.963.
- ↑ "Tom Paulay, New Zealand". Iabse.org. 17 September 2008. http://www.iabse.org/IABSE/association/Organisation_files/International_Award_of_Merit_in_Structural_Engineering/Tom_Paulay__New_Zealand.aspx. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
- ↑ "No. 50553". 14 June 1986. p. 32. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/50553/supplement/32
- ↑ Campbell, Andy (May 2016). "The fifteenth Mallet–Milne lecture". pp. 1333–1336. Digital object identifier:10.1007/s10518-016-9869-8.
External links[]
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