ABSTRACT
VANONI 30.08. 1904 Somis CA/USA 27.12. 1999 Pasadena CA/USA Vito August Vanoni obtained the BS degree from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, in 1926, the MS degree there in 1932, and the PhD degree in 1940. He stayed from 1935 to 1947 at the research laboratories of the US Soil Conservation Service SCS, was assistant professor of hydraulics at his Alma Mater from 1942 to 1949, then associate professor there until 1955, when taking over until retirement in 1974 as professor. He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE, he was awarded honorary membership in 1980, and was a member of the International Association of Hydraulic Research IAHR. He was the first recipient of the Hans Albert Einstein Award in 1989, and was from 1977 a member of the National Academy of Engineering NAE. Vanoni was considered an authority on the mechanics of sediment transport by streams and rivers. He performed research on the hydrodynamics of sediment transport, coastal engineering, and hydraulic structures. He has written seminal papers particularly on sediment transport, including the bedload equations, distribution of suspended sediment, stream degradation, bed forms, and total sediment discharge relations. His 1946 work deals with the sediment distribution demonstrating that the then assumed values result in different than the actual momentum transfer coefficients. He also was able to show that suspended sediment tends to reduce the turbulent momentum transfer and hence the flow resistance. Suspended sediment may also cause secondary flow in a river. He was awarded for this paper the 1950 Karl Emil Hilgard Prize by ASCE. Anonymous (1950). Vito A. Vanoni. Civil Engineering 20(1): 43-44. P Anonymous (1980). Vito A. Vanoni. Civil Engineering 50(10): 143. Anonymous (2000). Vito A. Vanoni. Civil Engineering 70(3): 13. P Vanoni, V.A. (1946). Transportation of suspended sediment by water. Trans. ASCE 111: 67-133. Vanoni, V.A, Hsu, E.-Y. (1952). Turbulence and diffusion as factors in sediment transportation. Centennial Convocation Chicago, Paper 67: 1-31. ASCE: New York. Vanoni, V.A., Nomicos, G.N. (1960). Resistance properties of sediment-laden streams. Trans. ASCE 125: 1140-1166; 125: 1172-1175. Vanoni, V.A. (1975). River dynamics. Advances in applied mechanics 15: 2-89, C.-S. Yih, ed. Academic Press: New York. Vanoni, V.A. (1984). Fifty years of sedimentation. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 110(8): 1022-1057.
