Contribution to the knowledge of early geotechnics during the twentieth century: Arthur Casagrande

Arthur Casagrande (1902-1981) is one of the main people responsible for the geotechnics that we know today. Born in Haidenschaft, now Slovenia, he went to the United States in 1926 to participate in major civil engineering projects: he graduated in 1924 from the Technische Hochschule in Vienna, Aust...

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Published inHistory of geo- and space sciences Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 107 - 123
Main Authors Galindo-Aires, Ruben, Lara-Galera, Antonio, Guillan-Llorente, Gonzalo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Gottingen Copernicus GmbH 13.08.2018
Copernicus Publications
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Casagrande, Arthur
Civil engineering
Civil engineers
Engineering geology
Engineering research
Geotechnology
Liquefaction
Soil mechanics
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Summary:Arthur Casagrande (1902-1981) is one of the main people responsible for the geotechnics that we know today. Born in Haidenschaft, now Slovenia, he went to the United States in 1926 to participate in major civil engineering projects: he graduated in 1924 from the Technische Hochschule in Vienna, Austria. On this visit to the USA he met Karl Terzaghi (1883-1963), the father of soil mechanics and geotechnology, who taught him the basic concepts of this discipline to which Casagrande dedicated the rest of his life.
ISSN:2190-5029
2190-5010
2190-5029
DOI:10.5194/hgss-9-107-2018