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Christian Otto Mohr, mais conhecido como Otto Mohr (Wesselburen, 8 de outubro de — Dresden, 2 de outubro de ) foi um engenheiro analista estrutural.!
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Christian Otto Mohr
Christian Otto Mohr (October 8, 1835 – October 2, 1918) was a Germancivil engineer.
Biography
He was born on October 8, 1835 to a landowning family in Wesselburen in the Holstein region.
At the age of 16 attended the Polytechnic School in Hanover.
Starting in 1855, his early working life was spent in railroad engineering for the Hanover and Oldenburg state railways, designing some famous bridges and making some of the earliest uses of steeltrusses.
Even during his early railway years, Mohr had developed an interest in the theories of mechanics and the strength of materials.
In 1867, he became professor of mechanics at StuttgartPolytechnic, and in 1873 at Dresden Polytechnic. Mohr had a direct and unpretentious lecturing style that was popular with his students.In addition to a lone textbook, Mohr published many research papers on the theory of structures and strength of materials.
In 1874, Mohr formalised the idea of a statically