Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Thomas Paulay
Hungarian-New Zealand earthquake engineer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
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]
Remove ads
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
External links
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads