Tung Hua Lin
| Tung Hua Lin | |
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Hanyu Pinyin | Lín Tónghuá |
| Wade–Giles | Lin2 T'ung2-hua2 |
Tung Hua Lin (May 26, 1911 – June 18, 2007) was a
Chinese-American aerospace and structural engineer best known for designing China's first twin engine aircraft during World War II.[2]
Early life and career
Lin was born in
Tsing Hua University in 1937.[5] His cousin Tung-Yen Lin
was also one of the outstanding structural engineers of the 20th century.
World War II
Lin was asked to
Chungking to Chengdu on November 18, 1944. Lin was awarded a medal by the Chinese government for his efforts.[5]
Postwar career
After the war, Lin was a member of a mission to design
University of California, Los Angeles in 1955; while there, he published the Theory of Inelastic Structure in 1968. He retired in 1978.[2][5]
In May 1981, Dr. Shu-Liang Bob Wu is the last Ph.D student that Professor Lin help to get Ph.D degree during Professor Lin's tenure years in UCLA. The Ph.D dissertation subject is "Stress-strain time relations under radial loadings, and plastic strain under static tension and cyclic torsion for Aluminum alloy" .
It is noted that this is the only Ph.D dissertation that Professor Lin Co-Chairmen with Professor David Okrent. Both are member of National academy of Engineering.
Lin was awarded the
stress in construction materials led to a fellowship in the National Academy of Engineering in 1990. Taiwan's Academia Sinica named him as a member in 1996.[4] He died of heart failure in June 2007.[2]
See also
Publications
- Lin, T. H. (1968). Theory of Inelastic Structures. Wiley. ISBN 0-471-53540-0.
- ISBN 7-113-06964-9.
References
- ^ a b c "林同驊". Academia Sinica. Archived from the original on 2002-09-27.
- ^ a b c d "UCLA professor who designed Chinese twin-engine plane dies at 96". San Diego Union Tribune. 2007-06-24. Retrieved 2007-06-24.
- ^ a b Lin, Tung Hua (2005). "林同骅學長簡介: 2005年校友會終身成就獎 (Profile of Tung Hua Lin: 2005 Alumni Association Achievement Award)". Jiaotong/Chiao Tung University Alumni Association of Southern California. Archived from the original on 2007-04-10. Retrieved 2007-06-25.
- ^ a b "Tung Hua Lin". Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles. Archived from the original on 2007-09-15. Retrieved 2007-06-24.
- ^ a b c "Tung Hua Lin". Marquis Who's Who. 2006. Accessed through Galenet's Biography Resource Centre
- ^ "'Bat' wings; pioneer built planes in Chinese cave". Los Angeles Times. 1991-04-29. Accessed through Thomson Gale's Infotrack
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