KEELHOFF

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30.12.1863 Neerpelt/B - 24.5.1952 Gent/B

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François Keelhoff graduated as a civil engineer from the University of Gent in 1887. He started his career in the special service at the Schelt River. In parallel he was a Lecturer of hydraulics at his Alma Mater from 1888. Around 1900, as an engineering professor, he established an engineering laboratory at the University of Gent. In parallel, Keelhoff was a chief engineer of the Belgian Corps of Bridges and Roads Engineers. In 1907, he was appointed General Inspector of the Belgian Corps until his retirement in 1933.

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Keelhoff's main papers were published in the Belgian Annals of Public Works. These include hydraulics and the stability aspects of engineering materials. Keelhoff was interested in graphical methods to solve these problems and therefore may be considered a successor of Junius Massau (1852-1909), who in the years around 1900 presented a number of papers on the integration of the unsteady open channel flow equations. A first book dates from the 1890s and a general approach was published in 1914. Later, he published an experimental work on water flow in a channel supplied from a sluice gate. Keelhoff also published a paper on the Airy wave theory in 1922 as originally proposed by George Biddell Airy (1801-1892). He was awarded the Charles Lemaire Prize in 1899.

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_{Anonymous (1929). En l'honneur de François Keelhoff, professeur à l'Université de Gand, inspecteur général des ponts et chaussées. Buyck: Gand. P}

_{Keelhoff, F. (1892). Note sur la résolution graphique de quelques problèmes d'hydrauliques.}

_{Annoot-Braeckman: Gand.}

_{Keelhoff, F. (1898). Expériences sur le mouvement de l'eau dans les canaux rectangulaires alimen- tés par une vanne. Annales des Travaux Publiques 55: 873-897, and Annales de l'Association des Ingénieurs sortis des Ecoles Spéciales de Gand 21: 287-311.}

_{Keelhoff, F. (1914). Eléments d'intégration graphique. Hoste: Gand.}

_{Keelhoff, F. (1922). La formule d'Airy et ses applications. Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Sciences Mémoires Série 2, 6: 1-64.}

_{Keelhoff, F. (1923). Piliers, murs immergés, barrages à sections horizontales également comprimées. Goemaere: Bruxelles.}

_{Keelhoff, F. (1935). Les écoles du génie civil, des arts et manufactures et des mines de Gand.}

_{Forest, van Langenacker: Bruxelles.}

_{Meulemeester, D. de (1960). Marie Ferdinand François Keelhoff. Liber memorialis 1913-1960 4: 321-324, T. Luykx, ed. Rijksuniversiteit: Gent. P}