After a year of graduate study at Harvard he was awarded the MCE degree in 1911. Louis, where he remained for a year, after which he returned to Norfolk Academy in 1909.

He obtained a BS in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1908, and then joined the bridge department of the Missouri Pacific Railroad in St. Then he attended Hampden-Sydney College where he earned both B.A. He had an elder brother, Tom Peete Cross, who would later become a Celtic studies scholar. 1960 when it was gradually superseded by other methods.Ĭross was born in Nansemond County, Virginia, to Virginia planter Thomas Hardy Cross and his wife Eleanor Elizabeth Wright. Hardy Cross (1885–1959) was an American structural engineer and the developer of the moment distribution method for structural analysis of statically indeterminate structures. Moment distribution method for reinforced concreteĪmerican Society for Engineering Education Lamme Medal (1944), ACI (1935) Wason Medal for Most Meritorious Paper, IStructE Gold Medal University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Nansemond County, Virginia, United States