In 2012 Krystian Pilarczyk has donated his technical archive to the
department of Hydraulic Engineering of TU Delft. The archive has been
processed and cleaned up. Books from the collection have been placed in
the books collection of the University (accessible via https://tudelft.on.worldcat.org),
duplicates
have been recycled and given to PhD students (mainly from developing
countries). The collection also contained many Delft Hydraulic Reports.
These reports have been added to the paper collection of Delft Hydraulic Reports of the department. It is
the intention to add these reports in the near future also to the
digital collection.
The collection also contains some 2000 rather unique reports on
hydraulics, geotextiles and related subjects. These reports have been
digitised and added to the Delft Hydro repository. An full
list can be obtained from the repository.
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Krystian
W. Pilarczyk, M.Sc., born
February 14, 1941 in Poland, was graduated in 1964 at the Gdansk
Technical University, Faculty of Hydraulic Engineering. After the first
six years of research activities at the Institute of Hydroengineering in
Gdansk and Delft Hydraulics in Delft, he joined in 1971 the
Rijkswaterstaat. In the period 1971 to 1986 he was involved in the Delta
Project (closure of the tidal estuaries) as a coordinator of the applied
research and the designer. In that time he initiated a number of
systematic research program’s, among others, on static and dynamic
stability of rock, closure techniques by means of rock and sand, scour
prediction and scour protection, runup and overtopping, bank
protections, design of dikes and various kinds of revetments, and design
with geosystems. All these programmas have resulted in a number of
design manuals, which were realized under his supervision in the period
1986 to 2002, in the scope of his R&D activities at the Road and
Hydraulic Institute (Dienst Weg- en Waterbouwkunde) of the
Rijkswaterstaat in Delft. He retired from Rijkswaterstaat per 1 december
2004.
He has been teaching at Unesco-IHE in Delft and the Nanjing Hydraulic
Institute. After his retirement he acts as an independent
consultant.
Pilarczyk is author of many books and reports. An overview of his books
is available in Worldcat.
An overview of reports can be found in the Delft Hydro Repository. More than 700
references to papers and books by Pilarczyk can be found in Google Scholar.
Note that all
information is presented without any endorsement of TU Delft. The
information above is not intended as design guidance, but only as
additional information for students, scientists and designers. This
page is maintained by the Section Coastal Engineering of Delft
University of Technology. For information: mail@dicea.nl
