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Professor Henry Louis Langhaar (1909 - 1992)

From http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_L._Langhaar :
Born 14 October 1909 in Oklahoma; Died 28 September 1992. Professor Langhaar was an American engineer scientist of Mechanics and Civil Engineering. He studied mechanics at Lehigh University, where he received his doctorate in 1940 under Clarence Albert Shook (Steady flow in the transition length of a cylindrical conduit). He became professor of mechanics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1979 he received the Theodore von Karman Medal.

Most Significant Publications (from Wikipedia):
Dimensional Analysis and Theory of Models, Warrior 1980
Energy Methods in Applied Mechanics, Wiley 1962
With Arthur Boresi, Robert E. Miller, Jerry Brügging: Stability of hyperboloidal cooling tower, ASCE J. Eng. Mech., 96, 1970, 753-779
with Boresi: Buckling and post-buckling behavior of a cylindrical shell subjected to external pressure, TAM Report 93 1956
Buckling of a cylindrical shell subjected to external pressure, Austrian engineer Archives 1960

Selected Publications:

Langhaar, Henry Louis and Boresi, Arthur Peter, “Buckling and post-buckling behavior of a cylindrical shell subjected to external pressure”, TAM Report 93, Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (UIUC), April 1956, http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/18754.

Langhaar, H. L,, and Boresi, A. P., "Snap Through and Post Buckling Behavior of Cylindrical Shells under the Action of External Pressure," Univ. of Ill. Eng. Exp. Station, Bull. No 443, 1957.

H. Langhaar, “Buckling of a cylindrical shell subjected to external pressure”, Osterreichishes Ingenieur-Archiv, 1960

Langhaar, H. L., Energy Methods in Applied Mechanics, New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1962

Henry L. Langhaar (1), Arthur P. Boresi (1), Robert E. Miller (1) and Jerry J. Bruegging (2)
(1) Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA
(2) The Marley Co., Kansas City, Missouri, USA
“Stability of Hyperboloidal Cooling Tower”, ASCE Journal of the Engineering Mechanics Division, Vol. 96, No. 5, September/October 1970, pp. 753-779
ABSTRACT: An infinitesimal theory of instability of an elastic orthotropic shell of revolution subjected to uniform external normal pressure is developed. The theory leads to a linear eigenvalue problem for determination of the buckling pressure. Illustrative numerical calculations based on piecewise-polynomial approximations and the partition method are given for the Fort Martin tower erected in West Virginia by the Marley Co. The tower is a reinforced concrete hyperboloidal shell of revolution, 370 ft. high and 5.5 in. thick for most of its height.

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