Thomas Paulay Explained

Thomas Paulay
Birth Date:	26 May 1923
Birth Place:	Sopron, Hungary
Death Place:	Christchurch, New Zealand
Alma Mater:	University of Canterbury
Thesis Title:	The coupling of shear walls.
Thesis Url:	http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/6348
Thesis Year:	1969

Thomas Paulay (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, and became a naturalised New Zealand citizen in 1957.^[1] After a PhD 'The coupling of shear walls',^[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.^{[3] [4] [5]}

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

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,
• Simplicity and confidence in seismic design,
• Reinforced concrete structures,

External links

• google scholar
• institutional homepage

Notes and References

1. Web site: New Zealand, naturalisations, 1843–1981 . 2010 . Ancestry.com Operations . 27 March 2016 . subscription .
2. PhD . The coupling of shear walls . 10.26021/2017. 1969. Paulay. T.. University of Canterbury .
3. Web site: Thomas Paulay « Obituaries « Fellowship « The Academy « Our Organisation « Royal Society of New Zealand . Royalsociety.org.nz . 6 August 2014.
4. Thomas Paulay Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering University of Canterbury (1923–2009) . 10.1002/eqe.963 . 38 . 13 . Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics . 1461–1464. 2009. Priestley. Nigel. free.
5. Web site: Tom Paulay, New Zealand . Iabse.org . 17 September 2008 . 6 August 2014 . 8 August 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140808043849/http://www.iabse.org/IABSE/association/Organisation_files/International_Award_of_Merit_in_Structural_Engineering/Tom_Paulay__New_Zealand.aspx . dead .
6. Campbell. Andy. The fifteenth Mallet–Milne lecture. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. May 2016. 14. 5. 1333–1336. 10.1007/s10518-016-9869-8. free.