We may be a little late to the announcement but we regret to inform you of the following:
Professor Bengt Baltzar Broms, Stockholm, Sweden, passed away at the age of 95. He is survived by his wife Carina and children Erik, Karin, and Peter.
Bengt Broms was a leading figure in Swedish and International Geotechnology and Foundation Engineering. He is mourned by many colleagues around the world, especially his former doctoral students, whom he mentored with exceptional expertise and generous advice.
For this site, in addition to his research work his contribution has been the numerous drawings that he posted online back in the late 1990’s/early 2000’s, in the early years of both this site and of my teaching at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. I still find them very useful and certainly better than my own “chicken scratchings.”
Memory eternal.
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