THE ORIGINS OF THE THEORY OF CONSOLIDATION - THE TERZAGHI-FILLUNGER DISPUTE

Authors
DEBOER R SCHIFFMAN RL GIBSON RE
Citation
R. Deboer et al., THE ORIGINS OF THE THEORY OF CONSOLIDATION - THE TERZAGHI-FILLUNGER DISPUTE, Geotechnique, 46(2), 1996, pp. 175-186
Citations number
49
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary","Engineering, Civil
Journal title
Geotechnique → ACNP
ISSN journal
00168505
Volume
46
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
175 - 186
Database
ISI
SICI code
0016-8505(1996)46:2<175:TOOTTO>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
This paper provides an outline of a bitter dispute between Karl Terzag hi and Paul Fillunger in the early to mid 1930s when both were profess ors at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna, This affair, with its trag ic results, presents a microcosm of the unrest and upheaval in middle Europe during this period, For geotechnical engineering it is a landma rk, because from it came the precise and general formulation of the th eory of consolidation, which was well ahead of its time.