Thomas Paulay
{{Short description|Hungarian-New Zealand earthquake engineer}}
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| birth_place = Sopron, Hungary
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| alma_mater = University of Canterbury
| thesis_title = The coupling of shear walls.
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| thesis_year = 1969
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Thomas Paulay {{post-nominals|country=NZL|OBE|size=85%}} {{post-nominals|post-noms=OoM|size=85%}} (26 May 1923 – 28 June 2009) was a Hungarian-New Zealand earthquake engineer.
Academic career
Trained as chemical engineer, after fleeing Hungary to West Germany, Paulay arrived in New Zealand in 1951, and became a naturalised New Zealand citizen in 1957.{{cite web |url=http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&db=NZNaturalisations&h=73910 |title=New Zealand, naturalisations, 1843–1981 |year=2010 |website= |publisher=Ancestry.com Operations |accessdate=27 March 2016 |url-access=subscription }} After a PhD 'The coupling of shear walls',{{Cite thesis |type=PhD |url=https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/6348|doi=10.26021/2017|year=1969|last1=Paulay|first1=T.|title=The coupling of shear walls |publisher=University of Canterbury }} in 1961, he joined the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Canterbury, where he spent many years studying the seismic behaviour and design of structures.{{cite web|url=http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/organisation/academy/fellowship/obituaries/thomas-paulay/ |title=Thomas Paulay « Obituaries « Fellowship « The Academy « Our Organisation « Royal Society of New Zealand |publisher=Royalsociety.org.nz |date= |accessdate=6 August 2014}}{{cite journal|title=Thomas Paulay Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering University of Canterbury (1923–2009) |doi=10.1002/eqe.963 |volume=38 |issue=13 |journal=Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics |pages=1461–1464|year = 2009|last1 = Priestley|first1 = Nigel|doi-access=free}}{{cite web |url=http://www.iabse.org/IABSE/association/Organisation_files/International_Award_of_Merit_in_Structural_Engineering/Tom_Paulay__New_Zealand.aspx |title=Tom Paulay, New Zealand |publisher=Iabse.org |date=17 September 2008 |accessdate=6 August 2014 |archive-date=8 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808043849/http://www.iabse.org/IABSE/association/Organisation_files/International_Award_of_Merit_in_Structural_Engineering/Tom_Paulay__New_Zealand.aspx |url-status=dead }}
In the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours, Paulay was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to civil engineering.{{London Gazette |issue=50553 |date=14 June 1986 |page=32 |supp=3}}
Paulay delivered the fourth Mallet–Milne memorial lecture for the Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics, in London in 1993.{{cite journal|last1=Campbell|first1=Andy|title=The fifteenth Mallet–Milne lecture|journal=Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering|date=May 2016|volume=14|issue=5|pages=1333–1336|doi=10.1007/s10518-016-9869-8|doi-access=free}}
Selected works
- Seismic design of reinforced concrete and masonry buildings, {{ISBN|0471549150}}
- Simplicity and confidence in seismic design, {{ISBN|047194310X}}
- Reinforced concrete structures, {{ISBN|0471659177}}
References
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External links
- [https://scholar.google.co.nz/scholar?q=Thomas+Paulay google scholar]
- [http://www.civil.canterbury.ac.nz/staff/Paulay/biographical.shtml institutional homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808045250/http://www.civil.canterbury.ac.nz/staff/Paulay/biographical.shtml |date=8 August 2014 }}
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Category:Hungarian emigrants to New Zealand
Category:Academic staff of the University of Canterbury
Category:University of Canterbury alumni
Category:New Zealand civil engineers
Category:New Zealand Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Naturalised citizens of New Zealand
Category:Hungarian military personnel of World War II
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