Emil Winkler

Emil Winkler ( born April 18, 1835 in Falkenberg at Torgau; † August 27, 1888 in Berlin) was a German engineer.

Life

Winkler was born in Falkenberg, the son of the forester Johann Leberecht Winkler. His father committed suicide on the 12th birthday of the Son of suicide. Attending primary school in Falkenberg ( 1841 ) was followed from 1847 to visit the school in Torgau, which he broke in 1850. He then completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in Torgau and then visited the Baugewerkschule in wood Minden.

Emil Winkler then studied at the Polytechnic School in Dresden construction. There the engineer Johann Andreas Schubert and the mathematician Oskar Schlomilch were his teachers. From 1860, he received his doctorate at the University of Leipzig with the physicist Wilhelm Gottlieb Hankel on a subject of soil mechanics. He also taught courses in Dresden (now Technische Universität Dresden). He then worked in Prague (1865 ) and Vienna (1870 ), where he was appointed professor. In 1877 he moved to the Berlin Academy of Architecture. He was the second Rector of the Technical University of Berlin from May 1881 to 1882.

During his scientific activity, Emil Winkler dealt with bridge construction, tunnel construction, earthmoving, elasticity and strength of structural analysis. He examined the problems of computing two - and three-dimensional strain components experimentally. Connected to Winkler's name is in civil engineering today the " Winklersche bedding " - a model for determining the load of the substructure of the railroad tracks. Winkler addressed the problem of reducing the high computational complexity in the design of trusses by a later so-called " method of Influenzlinien ( influence lines ) ".

Emil Winkler died on 27 August 1888 in consequence of a stroke at the site of his house in Berlin- Friedenau. He was married to Clara Helene Crentz, the daughter of Dresdner merchant.

Writings

  • The theory of elasticity and strength with special reference to their application in industry. H. Dominicus, Prague 1867.
  • Lectures on railway construction, held at the Royal Bohemian Polytechnic State Institute in Prague. H. Dominicus, Prague 1867.
  • Lecture on the calculation of arch bridges. In: Reports of the architect and Ingeniurvereins in Bohemia, Volume 3 1868.
  • New theory of the earth pressure in addition to a history of the theory of earth pressure and the experiments carried on here. Waldheim, Vienna 1872.
  • Technical Guide to Vienna. Lehmann & Wentzel, Vienna 1873.
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