BRUSCHIN

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29.4.1931 Galaţi/RO - 4.4.2000 St.-Sulpice/CH

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Jacques Bruschin graduated as a civil engineer from the Polytechnic School of Bucharest in 1954 and then worked in private Romanian engineering. He moved in 1964 to Switzerland, where he was a Lecturer at the Lausanne Engineering School from 1967. From 1969, the year the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL was founded, he was an assistant of Daniel Bonnard (1907-1979), then the professor of geotechnics and hydraulics. In 1970 Bruschin was appointed head of its hydraulic laboratory and in 1975 EPFL Honorary Professor. He thus took over from Bonnard and lectured in hydraulics, hydrology and geotechniques. Bruschin was largely responsible for the new hydraulic laboratory set up at the present EPFL site in Ecublens close to Lausanne. He was an invited professor at the Universities of Ottawa in Canada, and Delhi in India, and was involved in the aftermath of the 1987 floods that occurred in the Swiss Alps. Bruschin retired from EPFL in 1994.

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Bruschin was involved in a number of hydraulic projects. His early work was related to the transport of suspended solids in Swiss rivers. Then, he investigated the risks of floods in the Swiss valleys and thus developed into an expert of both hydraulic engineering and hydrology. From the mid 1970s, he was also a Member of the Committee responsible for the hydraulic guidelines of sewers. From the 1980s, Bruschin took interest in cavitation protection of large spillways by the then newly introduced chute aerators. He has published a number of conference papers on that topic, such as the Hydraulics Conferences in Coventry, or in Esslingen, Germany.

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_{Bruschin, J. (1971). Transports solides en suspension dans les rivières suisses. Bulletin Technique de la Suisse Romande 97(14): 337-343.}

_{Bruschin, J., Falvey, H.T. (1974). Risques relatifs aux crues. Bulletin Technique de la Suisse Romande 100: 418-427.}

_{Bruschin, J., Taubmann, K. (1975). Hydraulische Bemessung von Rohrleitungen. Schweizerische Bauzeitung 93(5): 46-51.}

_{Bruschin, J. (1982). Air-water flow on spillways and in plugged bottom outlets. Intl. Conf. Hydraulic Modelling of Civil Engineering Structures Coventry E(2): 215-222.}

_{Bruschin, J., Harmann, A. (1983). Régularisation des eaux du Léman. Ingénieurs et Architectes Suisses 109(17): 317-321.}

_{Cosonday, M. (1999). Bruschin, Jacques. L'Ecole Polytechnique Lausanne: 564. PPUR: Lausanne. P}