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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Evert Hoek</b> (* <a href="23._August" title="23. August">23. August</a> <a href="1933" title="1933">1933</a> in <a href="S%C3%BCdrhodesien" title="Südrhodesien">Südrhodesien</a>, jetzt <a href="Simbabwe" title="Simbabwe">Simbabwe</a>; † <a href="6._Juli" title="6. Juli">6. Juli</a> <a href="2024" title="2024">2024</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) war ein südafrikanisch-kanadischer <a href="Bauingenieur" class="mw-redirect" title="Bauingenieur">Bauingenieur</a> für <a href="Geotechnik" title="Geotechnik">Geotechnik</a> und ein international führender Experte für Felsmechanik.
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<p>Hoek begann seine Forschung zur Felsmechanik 1958 (an Problemen mit brüchigem Fels in tiefen Goldminen in Südafrika) und wurde 1965 an der <a href="Universit%C3%A4t_Kapstadt" title="Universität Kapstadt">Universität Kapstadt</a> promoviert (Rock fracture under static stress conditions). Ab 1965 war er am <a href="Imperial_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial College">Imperial College</a>, wo er an der Royal School of Mines ein fakultätenübergreifendes Zentrum für Felsmechanik einrichtete. Er entwickelte dort unter anderem 1968 ein <a href="Triaxialger%C3%A4t" title="Triaxialgerät">Triaxialgerät</a> für die Felsmechanik. Später war Professor an der <a href="Universit%C3%A4t_Toronto" class="mw-redirect" title="Universität Toronto">Universität Toronto</a>, war ab 1975 zwölf Jahre leitender beratender Ingenieur bei Golder Associates (wo er Senior Principal und Chairman wurde) in <a href="Vancouver" title="Vancouver">Vancouver</a> und danach selbstständiger beratender Ingenieur mit eigenem Ingenieurbüro in Vancouver.
</p><p>Hoek war Fellow der <a href="National_Academy_of_Engineering" title="National Academy of Engineering">National Academy of Engineering</a>, der <a href="Royal_Academy_of_Engineering" title="Royal Academy of Engineering">Royal Academy of Engineering</a> und der Canadian Academy of Engineering. Er erhielt einen Doktorgrad (D. Sc.) der Universität London und Ehrendoktorate in Toronto und der <a href="University_of_Waterloo" title="University of Waterloo">University of Waterloo</a>. Er erhielt den ersten Mueller Preis der International Society of Rock Mechanics und war 1983 <a href="Rankine_Lecture" title="Rankine Lecture">Rankine Lecturer</a> (<i>Strength of jointed rock masses</i>) und 2000 <a href="Terzaghi_Lecture" title="Terzaghi Lecture">Terzaghi Lecturer</a> (<i>Big tunnels in bad rock</i>).
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<ul><li>mit John Bray: <i>Rock Slope Engineering</i>, London, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 1974, 1981</li>
<li>mit E. T. Brown: <i>Underground Excavations in Rocks</i>, London, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 1980, 1982</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rocscience.com/education/hoeks_corner">Webseite mit vielen seiner Arbeiten und seinem Buch Practical Rock Engineering</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://technology.infomine.com/articles/1/2193/rock.slope.hoek/hoek.on.rock.aspx">Biographie</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/north-vancouver-bc/evert-hoek-11890024"><i>Obituary Evert Hoek.</i></a> In: <i>Dignity Memorial.</i><span class="Abrufdatum"> Abgerufen am 10. Juli 2024</span> (englisch).</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AEvert+Hoek&rft.title=Obituary+Evert+Hoek&rft.description=Obituary+Evert+Hoek&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dignitymemorial.com%2Fobituaries%2Fnorth-vancouver-bc%2Fevert-hoek-11890024&rft.language=en"> </span></span>
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