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Thomas Paulay OBE OoM (26 May 1923 – 28 June 2009) was a Hungarian-New Zealand earthquake engineer.
Thomas Paulay | |
|---|---|
| Born | 26 May 1923 Sopron, Hungary |
| Died | 28 June 2009 (aged 86) Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Alma mater | University of Canterbury |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | The coupling of shear walls. (1969) |
Trained as chemical engineer, after fleeing Hungary to West Germany, Paulay arrived in New Zealand in 1951,[1] and became a naturalised New Zealand citizen in 1957.[2] After a PhD 'The coupling of shear walls',[3] 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.[1][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.[6]
Paulay delivered the fourth Mallet–Milne memorial lecture for the Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics, in London in 1993.[7]
- Seismic design of reinforced concrete and masonry buildings, ISBN 0471549150
- Simplicity and confidence in seismic design, ISBN 047194310X
- Reinforced concrete structures, ISBN 0471659177
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