Long Performance of Time Structural Prestressed Bridges - a presentation by Prof. Eng. Vladimir Křístek
On September 9, 2020 in Prague Prof. Eng. Vladimír Křístek, DrSc., Dr. h. c., FEng, suddenly left us at age of 82. Born on Oktober 15, 1938 in Prague, he is professor since 1977 in the Department of Reinforced Concrete and Masonry Structures at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic. Two-time winner of the State Prize of Czechoslovakia and two-time winner of the Czech Academy of Sciences for extremely high contributions in the field of research. Member of the Presidium of the Academy of Engineering of the Czech Republic. Chairman of the attestation commission for selection of doctoral students. He has won over 100 international and national research grants from 1970 to the present. Prof. DrSc. Eng. Vladimir Krsistek is a world-renowned expert in the field of stress and strain of reinforced concrete bridges and multi-storey buildings, taking into account the influence of the rheological properties of concrete. He gives lectures on reinforced concrete structures and bridges, stability of building structures, taking into account the influence of creep and drying of concrete and the method of the finite strips. Invited as a guest lecturer in the USA, Germany, England, Belgium, Finland, Italy, Greece. He is the author of 14 monographs and over 750 scientific publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Under his leadership, a total of twenty-four researchers defended their doctoral dissertations. Expert and designer of a number of complex with large openings bridges with box-shaped cross sections. Licensed civil engineer and consultant for a large number of reinforced concrete structures and facilities in the Czech Republic and abroad. He is the author and co-author of several edited manuals books:
1) Theory of Box Girders, Wiley and Sons, New York Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto, 1979;
2) Creep and Shrinkage of Concrete Elements and Structures, (co-author Z. Šmerda), Elsevier, Amsterdam, Oxford, New York, Tokyo, 1988;
3) Advanced Analysis and Design of Plated Structures, (co-author M. Škaloud), Elsevier, Amsterdam, Oxford, New York, Tokyo, 1991;
4) Stability Problems of Steel Box Girder Bridges, (co-author M. Škaloud), ČSAV, Prague 1981;
5) Thin-walled beams of deformable box sections (in Czech), ČSAV, Prague, 1968;
6) Theory of Analysis of Box Girders (in Czech), SNTL Prague, 1974; Creep and Shrinkage of Concrete (in Czech, co-author Z. Šmerda), SNTL Prague, 1978;
7) Slender Compressed Concrete Members (in Czech, co-authors L.Janda, M. Kvasnička, J. Procházka), SNTL Prague, 1983;
8) Green Bridges, Eng.. Academy IAČR and SMP Construction, Prague 2004;
9) Mathematical Modeling of Creep and Shrinkage of Concrete (Chap. Effects of Shear Lag and Randomness of Material Creep Properties on deflections and Stresses in Prestressed Concrete Box Girder), (Ed. Z.P. Bažant), John Wiley and Sons, Chichester - New York - Brisbane - Toronto - Singapore, 1988;
10) Analysis of transport of humidity in porous materials, (in Czech), (co-authors) Pardubice, 2008;
11) Plated Structures - Stability and Strength (Chap. Shear Lag in Box Girders), Applied Science Publishers, Elsevier, London ,1983;
12) Composite Steel - Concrete Structures (Chap. Composite Girders with Deformable Connection), (co-author J. Studnička), Applied Science Publishers, Elsevier, London, 1988.
As major Awards and Honours: we can mention: Prize of Czech Society of Civil Engineers (1977); Czechoslovak State Prize (1977); Prize of Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1982); Prize of Czech Publishers of Technical Literature (1980); Czechoslovak State Prize (1988); Czech Technical University Golden Felber Medal (1998); Two Prizes of Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1982 and 1989); Two Medals of the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic (1998 and 2002); Prize of Ministry of Transportation of the Czech Republic (2008).
During the period beween 1979 and 1994 he was visiting researcher and lecturer at: University of California, Berkeley, USA (1979); University College, Cardiff, UK (1981); University of Dortmund, Germany (1982); University of Dortmund, Germany (1984); Northwestern University, Evanston, USA (1985, 1999, 2000); University of Dortmund, Germany (1985); University College, Cardiff, UK (1986); University College, Cardiff, UK (1988); University College, Cardiff, UK (1989); University of Stuttgart, Germany (1989); University of Liege, Belgium (1990); Helsinki University of Technology, Finland (1991); University of Milano, Italy (1992); University College, Cardiff, UK (1992); Helsinki University of Technology, Finland (1992); National Technical University of Athens, Greece (1993); Helsinki University of Technology, Finland (1994); University of Oulu, Finland (1994); International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Udine, Italy (1994).
His scientific interests and professional activity covered a wide range of fields in Civil and Structural Engineering, as follows: Structural Mechanics, Advanced Structural Analysis, Mathematical Elasticity, Thin-walled Structures, Stability Problems, Bridges, Tall Buildings, Composite Structures, Creep and Shrinkage of Concrete, Advanced Analysis of Concrete Structures, Fibre Reinforced Concrete, Historical bridges, Sustainable Development. Consultancy to bridge design and construction.
For his serious merits in raising the authority of VSU. L. Karavelov, he was awarded with the honorary title "Doctor Honoris Causa" of VSU "Lyuben Karavelov" with a decision of the Academic Council - Protocol №17/03.04.2014.
Drafted on behalf of his colleagues and friends:
Doncho Partov, Radomir Folic and Asterios Liolios
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