Thomas Paulay

Thomas Paulay
Born (1923-05-26)26 May 1923
Sopron, Hungary
Died 28 June 2009(2009-06-28) (aged 86)
Christchurch, New Zealand
Residence New Zealand
Alma mater University of Canterbury

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] 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][3][4]

In the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours, Paulay was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to civil engineering.[5]

Paulay delivered the fourth Mallet–Milne memorial lecture for the Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics, in London in 1993.[6]

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. 1 2 "Thomas Paulay « Obituaries « Fellowship « The Academy « Our Organisation « Royal Society of New Zealand". Royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 2014-08-06.
  2. ↑ "New Zealand, naturalisations, 1843–1981". Ancestry.com Operations. 2010. Retrieved 27 March 2016. (Subscription required (help)).
  3. ↑ "Thomas Paulay Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering University of Canterbury (1923–2009) - Priestley - 2009 - Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics - Wiley Online Library". Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics. 38: 1461–1464. doi:10.1002/eqe.963. Retrieved 2014-08-06.
  4. ↑ "Tom Paulay, New Zealand". Iabse.org. 2008-09-17. Retrieved 2014-08-06.
  5. ↑ "No. 50553". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 1986. p. 32.
  6. ↑ Campbell, Andy (May 2016). "The fifteenth Mallet–Milne lecture". Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. 14 (5): 1333–1336. doi:10.1007/s10518-016-9869-8. Retrieved 13 December 2017.


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