The Institute of Technical Acoustics at the Technical University of Berlin a foundation at the right time and place
Joachim Scheuren, M. Moeser · 2022
Starting from and continuing multiple previous efforts to investigate the physics of vibrations and waves in Mechanics and Acoustics at the Institute of Mechanics of Technical University Berlin (TUB) and the Heinrich-Hertz-Institute (HHI) in Berlin, in 1954 the Institute of Technical Acoustics at TU Berlin was founded.In close agreement with the profile of its highly regarded founding director, Lothar Cremer, the Institute aimed at exploring, developing and providing engineerable approaches, methods and technologies to control sound and vibrations as well as at deepening the understanding of underlying physical mechanisms.Being well equipped with both, a growing number of highly qualified academic staff members and modern, state of the art installations and utilities, the Institute soon belonged to the highly respected key institutions of its kind in Germany and Europe.This development was essentially driven by acoustic requirements for fast reconstructions and later for growing comfort expectations which more and more turned acoustics to an important interdisciplinary field of modern science and technology.The paper reviews the driving forces of this development as well as the results of the Institute's work which was greatly influenced by its directors Lothar