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He receivecl his early schooling in a little country grade school and his religious upbringing in a one-room country church. From there he went to the Cathedral School in Stavanger and graduated in 1940.
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As a part of the defense of the dissertation, his attention was directed also to the problem of the strength of long reinforced concrete columns. Even earlier, he had studiecl the problem of the shear strength of reinforced concrete beams.
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He served as chairman of a national committee that correlated all investigations and developed a solution to the failure problem. The results of these efforts continue to be used today in the design of reinforced concrete structures for shear.
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He was a member of the ACI Committee 31X during the development of the 1956, 1963 and 1971 Building Code Requirements for Reinforced Concrete and was chairman of the ACI Committee on Offshore Concrete Structures. In the ASCE he chaired the Administrative Committee on Masonry and Reinforced Concrete, and served as a member of the RCRC.
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Perhaps his most significant publication was the University of Illinois Engineering Experiment Station Bulletin 399, "A Study of Combined Bending and Axial Load in Reinforced Concrete Members', issued in 1951. This was the subject submitter]
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