Alan Garnett Davenport
Civil Engineering
Pioneered the application of wind tunnels to the design of wind sensitive structures and worked to create international design standards for wind engineering. "It has been very satisfying to have carried out some research that has been rapidly assimilated into the mainstream of structural engineering." |
- Birthplace
- Madras, India
- Family Members
- Title
- Professor; Director, Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory
- Office
- Engineering Faculty, University of Western Ontario
- Status
- Deceased
- Degrees
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- BA (Mech. Sci.), Cambridge University, England, 1954
- M.A.Sc (Civil Eng.), U of Toronto, 1957
- MA (Mech. Sci.), Cambridge University, England, 1958
- PhD (Civil Eng.)U of Bristol, 1961
- Many honourary degrees
- Awards
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- Gzowski Medal (Engineering Institute of Canada), 1963 and 1978
- Duggan Medal and Prize (EIC), 1960
- Golden Plate Award (American Academy of Achievement), 1965
- Applied Meteorology Prize (Canadian Meteorological Society), 1967
- Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 1972
- State-of-the-Art Award (Am. Soc. of Civil Engineers), 1973
- Can-AM Amity Award (ASCE), 1977
- Silver Medal (Assoc. of Professional Engineers of Ontario), 1978
- Fellow, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, 1982
- AB Sanderson Award for Structural Engineering (CSCE), 1985
- CANCAM Medal, 1983
- Fellow, Centre for Frontier Engineering Research, 1983
- Gold Medal (Institution of Structural Engineers - UK), 1988
- Earnest Manning Innovation Award of Distinction, 1990
- Bell Canada-Forum Award for Excellence, 1992
- Killam Memorial Prize, 1993
- Julian C. Smith Medal (EIC), 1993
- Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering (NSERC), 1994
- International Award of Merit in Structural Engineering, 1996
- Caquot Medal (Association Francaise de Genie Civil), 2001
- Last Updated
- December 31, 2011
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