Christian Otto Mohr (October 8, 1835 – October 2, 1918) was a German civil engineer, one of the most celebrated of the nineteenth century.
Mohr was born the son of a landowning family in Wesselburen in the Holstein region and at the age of 16 attended the Polytechnic School in Hanover.
Starting in 1855, his early working life was spent in railroad engineering for the Hanover and Oldenburg state railways, designing some famous bridges and making s...
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Christian Otto Mohr (October 8, 1835 – October 2, 1918) was a German civil engineer, one of the most celebrated of the nineteenth century.
Mohr was born the son of a landowning family in Wesselburen in the Holstein region and at the age of 16 attended the Polytechnic School in Hanover.
Starting in 1855, his early working life was spent in railroad engineering for the Hanover and Oldenburg state railways, designing some famous bridges and making some of the earliest uses of steel trusses.
Even during his early railway years, Mohr had developed an interest in the theories of mechanics and the strength of materials. In 1867, he became professor of mechanics at Stuttgart Polytechnic, and in 1873 at Dresden Polytechnic in 1873. Mohr had a direct and unpretentious lecturing style that was popular with his students.In addition to a lone textbook, Mohr published many research papers on the theory of structures and strength of materials.
In 1874, Mohr formalised the idea of a statically...
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