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3 - Theodore von Kármán

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2011

By
A. Leonard  and
N. Peters
Edited by
Peter A. Davidson ,
Yukio Kaneda ,
Keith Moffatt  and
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
A. Leonard
Affiliation:
Graduate Aerospace Laboratories
N. Peters
Affiliation:
Institut für Technische Verbrennung
Peter A. Davidson
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Yukio Kaneda
Affiliation:
Nagoya University, Japan
Keith Moffatt
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
Affiliation:
New York University
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Introduction

Theodore von Kármán, distinguished scientist and engineer with many interests, was born in Budapest on 11 May 1881. His father, Maurice von Kármán, a prominent educator and philosopher at the University of Budapest, had a significant influence over his early intellectual development. After graduating from the Royal Technical University of Budapest in 1902 with a degree in mechanical engineering, von Kármán published in 1906 the first of a long string of papers concerning solid mechanics problems outside the domain of linear elasticity theory, in this case on the compression and buckling of columns. In that same year, apparently at the urging of his father, von Kármán left Hungary for graduate studies at Göttingen. For his 1908 PhD, supervised by Ludwig Prandtl, he developed the concepts of reduced-modulus theory and their application to column behavior such as buckling. Later, with H.-S. Tsien and others, he developed a nonlinear theory for the buckling of curved sheets. His final work in solid mechanics was on the propagation of waves of plastic deformation published as a classified report in 1942 and in the open literature in 1950. In von Kármán's words:

It was another version of the problem I had solved for my doctor's thesis, in which I had extended Euler's classical theory of buckling to a situation beyond the elastic limit.

(von Kármán and Edson, 1967, p. 248)
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A Voyage Through Turbulence , pp. 101 - 126
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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