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Wolfgang Zerna (∗October 11th, 1916 in Berlin, German Empire; †November 14th, 2005 in Celle, Germany) was a civil engineer with focus on mechanics and construction.

Wolfgang Zerna

Early Years and Education

Wolfgang Zerna, after secondary school in Berlin, studied civil engineering at the Technische Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg. Even if he was called to military service, he managed to complete his studies with a diploma in 1940. After 4 years of military service and 2 years as prisoner of war in the USA, where together with other German scientists he organized a camp university, Zerna returned home in 1947. The same year, he became an assistant to Alf Pflüger at the chair of statics at the Technische Hochschule Hannover and finished his PhD thesis (On the membrane theory of general shells of revolution – Zur Membrantheorie der allgemeinen Rotationsschalen, Zerna, 1949). In1948, he habilitated (On the basic equations of the theory of elasticity – Allgemeine Grundgleichungen der...

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  1. Fakultät für Maschinenbau, Institut für Mechanik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

    Holm Altenbach

  2. Institute of Mechanics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

    Otto T. Bruhns

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Altenbach, H., Bruhns, O.T. (2019). Zerna, Wolfgang. In: Altenbach, H., Öchsner, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53605-6_121-1

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