Arthur Casagrande
Soil mechanic engineer and collaborator of Terzaghi / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Arthur Casagrande (August 28, 1902 – September 6, 1981) was an American civil engineer born in Austria-Hungary who made important contributions to the fields of engineering geology and geotechnical engineering during its infancy. Renowned for his ingenious designs of soil testing apparatus and fundamental research on seepage and soil liquefaction, he is also credited for developing the soil mechanics teaching programme at Harvard University during the early 1930s that has since been modelled in many universities around the world.
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Arthur Casagrande | |
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Born | August 28, 1902 |
Died | September 6, 1981 (1981-09-07) (aged 79) |
Occupation(s) | Civil engineer, Geotechnical engineer |
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