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Heinrich Hencky was a German

Germany

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engineer

Engineer

An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...

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Born in Ansbach

Ansbach

Ansbach, originally Onolzbach, is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It is the capital of the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Ansbach is situated southwest of Nuremberg and north of Munich, on the Fränkische Rezat, a tributary of the Main river. As of 2004, its population was 40,723.Ansbach...

he studied civil engineering in Munich and received his PhD from the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt. In 1913 Hencky joins a railway company in Kharkiv

Kharkiv

Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...

, Ukraine

Ukraine

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. At the outbreak of World War I

World War I

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he was interned. After the war he taught at Darmstadt, Dresden and Delft.

At Delft University of Technology

Delft University of Technology

Delft University of Technology , also known as TU Delft, is the largest and oldest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands...

he worked on slip-line theory, plasticity

Plasticity (physics)

In physics and materials science, plasticity describes the deformation of a material undergoing non-reversible changes of shape in response to applied forces. For example, a solid piece of metal being bent or pounded into a new shape displays plasticity as permanent changes occur within the...

and rheology

Rheology

Rheology is the study of the flow of matter, primarily in the liquid state, but also as 'soft solids' or solids under conditions in which they respond with plastic flow rather than deforming elastically in response to an applied force....

for which is best known.

In 1930 he went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

and in 1931 he held one of the first lectures on rheology. He returned to Delft and then to Germany. In 1936 he went to Russia again teaching at Kharkiv and Moscow.
Hencky died in a climbing accident.

Works

H. Hencky, "Der Spannungszustand in rechteckigen Platten". Mit 12 Abb. im Text und 7 Tafeln. München und Berlin, R. Oldenbourg, 1913
H. Hencky, "Über einige statisch bestimmte Falle des Gleichgewichts in plastischen Korpern" - Z. Angew. Math. Mech, 1923
H. Hencky, „Über die Form des Elastizitätsgesetzes bei ideal elastischen Stoffen“. Zeitschrift für technische Physik, 9, 215-220 (1928)

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