HRUSCHKA

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27.3.1876 Wien/A - 7.1.1944 Wien/A

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Artur Hruschka graduated from Vienna Technical University in 1900 as a civil engineer, where he submitted also a PhD thesis in 1903. He was appointed k.k. Baurat in the Ministry of Railways in 1909 and was awarded the Franz-Josef Order for bravery during World War I. In the early 1920s he advanced to Ministerialrat in the Austrian Ministry of Traffic, where he eventually took over a department of the General Directorate of the Austrian Railways. In 1934, Hruschka accepted an expert position for the Black Sea railroads from the Turkish Ministry of Public Works, and thus moved to Ankara for a short time.

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Hruschka is known for his contributions to the mechanical equipment of dams. He worked at the interface of civil and mechanical engineering, including the design of pipelines for hydropower plants, questions of unsteady flow in conduits such as mass surges and water hammer, distribution of pressurized flow upstream of turbines including the design of manifold pipes, and the optimum arrangement of turbines at a particular site. Austria with its richness in hydropower thus profited largely from Hruschka's knowledge in terms of electrification of its State Railways. Hruschka presented one of the very early books on these topics in 1929 thereby mainly addressing the practicing engineer.

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_{Anonymous (1930). Das österreichische Nationalkomitee der Weltkraftkonferenz. Wasserwirtschaft 24(18/19): 313. P}

_{Anonymous (2003). Artur Hruschka. Personal communication. ÖIAZ: Wien.}

_{Hruschka, A. (1922). Die Berechnung von Druckrohrleitungen. Elektrotechnik und Maschinenbau 40(46): 533-541; 40(47): 546-551.}

_{Hruschka, A. (1925). Die Kraftwerke und Unterwerke für den elektrischen Betrieb der Arlbergund der Salzkammergutbahnen. Elektrotechnik und Maschinenbau 43(1): 1-13; 45(47): 961-976; 45(48): 985-999; 45(49): 1015-1019; 45(51): 1053-1062.}

_{Hruschka, A. (1929). Druckrohrleitungen der Wasserkraftwerke. Springer: Wien.}

_{Hruschka, A. (1932). Das Mallnitzwerk. Elektrotechnik und Maschinenbau 50(50): 689-698; 50(51): 708-714; also Wasserkraft und Wasserwirtschaft 28(7): 73-79.}

_{Hruschka, A. (1933). Die skandinavische Tagung der Weltkraftkonferenz und die erste Tagung der Internationalen Talsperrenkonferenz 1933 in Stockholm. Wasserkraft und Wasserwirtschaft 28(16): 181-185; 28(17): 197-200; 28(18): 209-213; 28(19): 223-225; 28(20): 235-237.}