At the personal invitation of Christian Linder (Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and, by courtesy, of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, California) former Head of Institute Ekkehard Ramm gave a lecture as part of the renowned John A. Blume Distinguished Lecture Series:
Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge - From the Beginning until Today
The lecture in the almost full Bechtel Conference Center met with an overwhelming response.
A second lecture, in which Prof. Ramm presented current research topics at the institute, was also well attended and highly praised:
The Shell – Primadonna of Structures; Recent Accomplishments in Structural and Numerical Modeling
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