Terzaghi Fellows

at the Terzaghi Library and topics of Study

 

No.

Year

Name of fellow

Topic of study

1

1968

Leslie G. Bromwell (USA)

-   Terzaghi's trips to USA - 1912 and to Central America - ca. 1928

-   NECAXA Dam

2

1969

Gernot Püchl (Austria)

Terzaghi's period in Vienna

3

1970

Yves Lebègue (France)

Terzaghi's dams in Africa

4

1970

Cetin Soydemir (Turkey)

Terzaghi's period in Turkey

5

1970

Tien Hsing Wu (USA)

-   Slope failure at Woodfibre, B.C., Canada

-   Terzaghi's role in the investigation of the Folkestone Warren Landslips

-   Terzaghi's role in the design and construction of Cheakamus Dam

6

1974

William Michael Kilkenny (UK)

Case histories

7

1974

Fernando H. Tinoco (Venezuela)

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8

1975

Nyal E. Wilson (Canada)

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9

1976

Boreslaw Bros (Poland)

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10

1976

Tien Hsing Wu (USA)

-   Works of K. Terzaghi, 1925-1929

-   Terzaghi's role in the investigation and stabilization of the Serra Slide

-   Terzaghi's use of the shear strength of cohesive soils in stability analysis

11

1981

Marshall Silver (USA)

Embankment dams (earth dams)

12

1985

Boleslaw Bros (Poland)

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13

1990

Herbert Einstein (USA)

Terzaghi's relation to engineering geology

ASCE paper

14

1994/5

Richard Goodman (USA)

Terzaghi's biography

15

1996

Kemal Özodogru (Turkey)

Terzaghi's period in Turkey

Book published (English and Turkish)

(14)

1996

Richard Goodman (USA)

Terzaghi's biography

16

1997

Jack I. Clark (Canada)

Terzaghi on Pile Foundations

CGJ paper

(14)

1998

Richard Goodman (USA)

Terzaghi's biography

Book published: Karl Terzaghi, The Engineer as an Artist

17

2001

Andrew Schoefield (UK)

Mohr-Coulomb theory in Terzaghi's work

(Preparation for Istanbul 2001 Invited Lecture)

18

2004

R. Jonathan Fannin (Canada/UK)

Origins of Terzaghi¿s contribution to filter design, leading to the publication of "Karl Terzaghi: from theory to practice in geotechnical filter design", ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol. 134, No. 3, pp. 267-276.