Alfred Stucky
Alfred Stucky (16 March 1892 at La Chaux-de-Fonds - 6 September 1969 in Lausanne) was a Swiss engineer and academic who worked on hydraulic dam designs, specialising in arch dams. He founded the engineering firm Stucky SA in 1926; based in Renens in Switzerland, it has been part of the Gruner AG group since 2013. Education and early career Drawn to technology from an early age, Stucky initially trained as a mechanic and later enrolled at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich to study civil engineering, and became interested in hydraulics. He had internships with the Meyer office in Spiez, working on construction of the Zweisimmen to Lenk railway line, then with the company Favetto, Bosshard, Steiner & Co, which hired him during construction of the Lake Brienz railway. Lausanne School of Engineering and Stucky SA From around 1915 to 1923, Stucky worked at the Basel office of Gruner AG, first as an assistant and later as head engineer and joint partner. At Gruner he developed calculation methods and introduced the parabolic shape and the notion of elastic deformation in double curvature arch dams during design of an arch dam impounding the Lac de Montsalvens reservoir in the Canton