ABSTRACT
BEIJ 10.11. 1893 Hartford CT/USA 26.02. 1986 Franklin NH/USA Karl Hilding Beij was a junior engineer for the city of Hartford CT from 1914 to 1916, then a surveyor of the Rock Creek & Potomac Parkway Community WA until 1920. After war service, Beij joined as associate engineer the Aero Instrument Section of the National Bureau of Standards NBS, Washington DC, and was there from 1930 a hydraulic engineer in its Hydraulic Laboratory. He was a member of the Philosophical Society of Washington PSW, the American Meteorological Society, the International Association of Hydraulic Research IAHR, and the American Geophysical Union AGU, serving there as Secretary of the Section of Hydrology from 1933 to 1947, and of the General Section from 1947 to 1953. After Beij had joined the staff of the National Bureau of Standards, he designed original aircraft instruments. In 1942, Beij became assistant of the chief, of NBS Hydraulic Laboratory. His numerous publications include topics as aircraft instruments, copper roofings, and hydraulics. He was also the editor of the 5 volumes of Bibliography in Hydrology for the United States, AGU. In hydraulics, Beij was known for his works relative to flows in pipe bends, spillways, stilling basins, weirs and dry docks. In 1941 he investigated by model tests the thermal effects due to the discharge of large quantities of hot water into a navy yard. He also analyzed the filling systems for dry docks at Pearl Harbor and at Hunter’s Point CA. Beij presented one of the first studies on spatially-varied flow which are currently of relevance in side channel spillways. By correctly applying the momentum equation, he was able to validate his experimental observations. He also collaborated in the 1930s with Garbis H. Keulegan (1890-1989). Anonymous (1948). K. Hilding Beij. Trans. American Geophysical Union 29(5): 761. P Anonymous (1954). Beij, Karl Hilding. Who’s who in engineering 7: 162. Lewis: New York. Beij-Benoix, B.E. (2004). Karl Hilding Beij. Personal communication. P Beij, K.H. (1934). Flow in roof gutters. Journal of Research NBS 12(2): 193-213. Beij, K.H. (1938). Pressure losses for fluid flow in 90° pipe bends. Journal of Research NBS 21(7): 1-18. Eaton, H.N., Beij, K.H., Brombacher, W.G. (1926). Aircraft instruments. Ronald Press: New York. Keulegan, G.H., Beij, K.H. (1938). Pressure losses for fluid flow in curved pipe bends. Journal of Research NBS 18(1): 89-114.
