CONSOLIDAREA FALEZELOR DIN ZONA URBANĂ A CONSTANȚEI. DUPĂ UN ARTICOL AL ING. ION STĂNCULESCU, BUCUREȘTI
CONSOLIDATION OF CLIFFS IN THE URBAN AREA OF CONSTANTA. AFTER AN ARTICLE OF ING. ION STĂNCULESCU, BUCHAREST

Summary/Abstract: The southern and northern coasts of the Constanta peninsula have been affected by severe landslides since the end of the 19th century. The civil engineer Ion Stănculescu, together with his mentor, Prof. Eng. Aurel Beleş, devised extensive geotechnical works to consolidate these sea side cliffs in the years 1955-1959, saving important areas of Constanţa from destruction due to the collapse of these cliffs. The technical solutions adopted in these extensive works were judicious and innovative, so that even today the cliffs are in good condition. These underground works, even though many people who are walking today on the seafront are no longer noticing them, were essential engineering works for the city and port of Constanta. In this way, engineer Stănculescu represented the third consecutive generation of the same family, who linked their name, with honour, with the city of Constanţa, after his grandfather A. I. Bolton, MD, the first modern medical doctor of the city, and his father, general Ion S. Stănculescu, commander of the 9th Infantry Division of Dobruja, during the WW2. Eng. Stănculescu later became an engineering professor, president of the Romanian Society of Geotechnics and Foundations, and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest and Polytechnic University of Iasi.

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