Harry Poulos

Harry George Poulos (* April 27, 1940 in Katoomba ) is a Greek Australian Civil Geotechnical, internationally known as an expert on pile foundations.

Poulos graduated from the University of Sydney, where he made ​​1961 a bachelor's degree in 1965 and his doctorate. 1964/65 he was an engineer at MacDonald Wagner and Priddle. From 1965 he was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer in 1969, Reader in 1972 and from 1982 professor at the University of Sydney and is now Professor Emeritus there. In 1976 he was awarded a doctorate degree D. Sc. in Sydney.

He was Rankine Lecturer ( Pile behavior - theory and application, ) and 2005 Terzaghi Lecturer ( Pile behavior - Consequences of geology and construction imperfections ). Poulos was awarded in 1972, the J. James R. Croes Medal of ASCE, 1995 ASCE State of the Art of Civil Engineering Award, since 2010 Honorary Member of ASCE, was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in 2003, the Warren Medal and the Warren Price ( 1985) of the Australian Institute of Civil Engineers and the 2007 Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award from the ASCE. He became a member of the Order of Australia and in 1988 he received the John Jaeger Memorial Award. 1993 He is a member of the Australian Academy of Science (1988) and the Australian Academy of Science and Engineering and Engineers ( 1996). In 2003 he became an Australian civil engineer of the year.

Poulos is the Australian Standards Committee for pile foundations before (2010), was from 1980 to 1995 the Council of the Australian Geomechanics Society ( AGS), was from 1982 to 1984 its chairman, and the Council of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering ( ISSMGE ) the vice president for the Asia region Australia he was from 1989 to 1994. Since 2002, at the Sydney section of the AGS Poulos Lecture in his honor.

He has been involved worldwide in various basic construction projects, such as pile foundations for high-rise buildings in Dubai (Burj Al Arab, Emirates Towers, the Burj Dubai, the tallest skyscraper in the world, where he performed the geotechnical testing), the Docklands Project in Melbourne, or 700 km Egnatia Odos motorway across Greece (2001 to 2005), where in particular the seismic safety played a role. Other projects included consultations with various offshore structures such as oil rigs.

He is since 1989 an employee of Coffey Geotechnics, where he held various management positions, he was from 1991 to 1993 Board of Directors. Today he is there Senior Principal (2010).

Writings

  • With EH Davis Elastic solutions for soil and rock mechanics, Wiley 1974
  • With EH Davis Pile foundation analysis and design, Wiley 1980, Warrior 1990
  • Marine Geotechnics, Unwin Hyman, Boston, London 1988
  • He was also involved in the new edition (SI Version) by T. William Lambe, Robert V. Whitman soil mechanics, Wiley 1979
Katoomba, New South Wales American Society of Civil Engineers Burj Khalifa
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