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ARS HAM AM I RI KIAN
1899-1 990
BY EUGENE ]. PELTIER
ARSON AMEND a former chief engineering adviser of the
U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command (formerly Bureau
of Yards and Docks), died on July 2, 1990, at the age of ninety-
one.
Dr. Amirikian was born in Kighie, Armenia, in 1899. He
graduated from Bezazian College, Constantinople, in 1917;
Ecole Superieure des Ponts et Chaussees with a B.S. in civil
engineering in 1919; Cornell University with the clegree in civil
engineering in 1923; and the Institute of Technology (Tech-
nische HochschuTe) of Vienna, Austria, in 1960 with a D.Sc.
based on a thesis of his theory of protective construction.
He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in
1980. He was a brilliant engineer and was known for his many
innovative projects that served the Navy and the Seabees, as well
as the entire technical community and engineering profession.
Dr. Amirikian, who lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland, started
his career in 1923 as a structural draftsman working for five steel
fabrication shops. In 1928 he entered government service as an
assistant structural engineer with the U.S. Navy Bureau of Yards
and Docks in Washington, D.C. He remainedwith the command
until May 31, 1971, advancing through the grades of chiefJesign
engineer and special structural consultant to that of his position
as chief engineering consultant.
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MEMORIAL TRIBUTES
Dr. Arnirikian's area of specialization was very broad, includ-
~ng but not limited to the analysis and design of special struc-
tures, waterfront installations and auxiliary floating craft, and
the development of application techniques for welded steel and
precast concrete construction. He received the U.S. Navy Civil-
ian Career Achievement Award for the development of the
Arnmi Lift Dock and Transfer System. He received the Depart-
ment of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Award for his
concept and design of Ammi Tactical Support Structures and
the invention of the biserrated orthotropic framing system.
He was granted awards for progress in engineering design for
arc welded structures. The award he received in 1968 from the
American Welcling Societywas forwelded pontoon bridges used
in the war effort in Vietnam. He received several awards in design
competitions sponsored by the J. F. Lincoln Arc Welcling Foun-
dation. He also received the Alfred E. Lindau Award from the
American Concrete Institute in 1958, the George W. Goethals
Medal of the Society of American Military Engineers in 1971,
and the Ernest E. Howard Award from the American Society of
Civil Engineers in 1978.
Dr. Arnirikian had a long association with technical and
professional societies and took an active part in their work
through committees. He was chairman of the American Welding
Society Committee 17. This committee developed, over a period
of time, a new code for welding reinforcing bars. Nothing of this
sort was available heretofore, and previous work was done
without formulating standards or guidelines.
His publications, which well exceeded one hundred, included
Analysis of Rigid Frames published in 1942, Basic Structural
Engineering in 1954, and The Influence of the Art of Welding on the
Creative Concepts of Structural Design in 1966.
His creative designs included timber and reinforced concrete
structures. One of his designs in timber, the U.S. Navy's famed
wooden hangar for dirigibles, of which fourteen were built
during World War II, was appraised by EngineeringNews Record as
the most outstanding structural development of the period. He
developed two types of thin-section concrete framing systems,
one for floating craft and one for shore structures, for which he
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ARSHAM AMIRIKIAN
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received an award from the Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute
in 1952.
Dr. Arnirikian was a honorary member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers and the American Welding Society
and was a registered professional engineer in several states. He
retired as a colonel in the Air Force Reserve in the mid-1960s.
Besides English and his native Armenian, he spoke and wrote
French and Turkish and read and wrote German, Spanish, and
Italian.
In a field of wicle scope covering a variety of shore facilities and
floating craft, his entire career was devoted to developing and
improving methods of structural analysis, framing arrangements
of increaser! efficiency, and construction techniques and proce-
dures of greater economy. If he had been allowed another
ambition, it might have been to have capped his distinguished
career by extending his contact and influence in the ever-
widening theater of world science and applied techniques, per-
haps through a new assignment such as a technical or scientific
attache in a U.S. embassy abroad or in a special educational
endeavor in his prime field of structural engineering.
Dr. Amirikian was a most honored engineer; he received
numerous awards from government, industry, and technical
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socletles.
His cledication and expertise in several fields were an inspira-
tion to many who worked with him and had the privilege of
knowing him. He truly left his mark in furthering the knowledge
base of the engineering profession.
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