Thomas Paulay

Thomas Paulay
Born(1923-05-26)26 May 1923
Sopron, Hungary
Died28 June 2009(2009-06-28) (aged 86)
Christchurch, New Zealand
Alma materUniversity of Canterbury
Scientific career
ThesisThe coupling of shear walls. (1969)

Thomas Paulay OBE OoM (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,[1] and became a naturalised New Zealand citizen in 1957.[2] After a PhD 'The coupling of shear walls',[3] 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.[1][4][5]

In the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours, Paulay was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to civil engineering.[6]

Paulay delivered the fourth Mallet–Milne memorial lecture for the Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics, in London in 1993.[7]

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

  1. ^ a b "Thomas Paulay « Obituaries « Fellowship « The Academy « Our Organisation « Royal Society of New Zealand". Royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
  2. ^ "New Zealand, naturalisations, 1843–1981". Ancestry.com Operations. 2010. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
  3. ^ Paulay, T. (1969). The coupling of shear walls (PhD). University of Canterbury. doi:10.26021/2017.
  4. ^ Priestley, Nigel (2009). "Thomas Paulay Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering University of Canterbury (1923–2009)". Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics. 38 (13): 1461–1464. doi:10.1002/eqe.963.
  5. ^ "Tom Paulay, New Zealand". Iabse.org. 17 September 2008. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
  6. ^ "No. 50553". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 14 June 1986. p. 32.
  7. ^ Campbell, Andy (May 2016). "The fifteenth Mallet–Milne lecture". Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. 14 (5): 1333–1336. doi:10.1007/s10518-016-9869-8.


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