Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Ernest Edwin Sechler was an aerospace engineer and scientist who specialized in thin-shell structures. He earned his doctorate in 1934 at Caltech as one of the early students of Theodore von Kármán with a dissertation on the mechanics of thin-plate compression. He continued in this line of work, which had broad and deep applications in the structural aspects of aircraft and missiles. He played a key role under von Kármán in building GALCIT and the two collaborated on the structural design of the thin-shelled dome of Palomar Observatory. He wrote two of the standard references on shell structures, Airplane structural analysis and design (1942, with L G Dunn) and Elasticity in Engineering (1952). He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979, the year of his death."@en }
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- Ernest_Edwin_Sechler abstract "Ernest Edwin Sechler was an aerospace engineer and scientist who specialized in thin-shell structures. He earned his doctorate in 1934 at Caltech as one of the early students of Theodore von Kármán with a dissertation on the mechanics of thin-plate compression. He continued in this line of work, which had broad and deep applications in the structural aspects of aircraft and missiles. He played a key role under von Kármán in building GALCIT and the two collaborated on the structural design of the thin-shelled dome of Palomar Observatory. He wrote two of the standard references on shell structures, Airplane structural analysis and design (1942, with L G Dunn) and Elasticity in Engineering (1952). He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979, the year of his death.".
- Q77001 abstract "Ernest Edwin Sechler was an aerospace engineer and scientist who specialized in thin-shell structures. He earned his doctorate in 1934 at Caltech as one of the early students of Theodore von Kármán with a dissertation on the mechanics of thin-plate compression. He continued in this line of work, which had broad and deep applications in the structural aspects of aircraft and missiles. He played a key role under von Kármán in building GALCIT and the two collaborated on the structural design of the thin-shelled dome of Palomar Observatory. He wrote two of the standard references on shell structures, Airplane structural analysis and design (1942, with L G Dunn) and Elasticity in Engineering (1952). He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979, the year of his death.".