Man-Chung Tang
Man-Chung Tang (* 1938 in Zhaoqing ) is a Sino-American civil engineer, known for building bridges.
biography
Tang was born in Canton Province and sent to Hong Kong by his family to survive the turmoil of the civil war. He graduated from Chu Hai College in Hong Kong in 1959 and (with a German scholarship) from TH Darmstadt with a diploma in 1963 and a doctorate in 1965. He then worked at Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen, where he gained experience with cable-stayed bridges made of steel. and from 1968 he was in New York, at the engineering firm Severud and at Dywidag in the New York branch (as chief engineer and vice-president). In 1978 he founded his own engineering office (DRC Consultants, for Design, Research, Construction), in 1983 another (Contech) and in 1994 DRC in Chongqing . In 1995, DRC merged with TY Lin in San Francisco to form TY Lin International with Tang as chairman. DRC becomes the branch in China where a bridge building boom began in the 1990s.
He is the chairman of TY Lin International (TYLI) engineering firm in San Francisco , founded in 1954 by bridge builder Tung-Yen Lin .
He was President of the American Segmental Bridge Institute (whose Leadership Award he received in 1995) and chaired the ASCE Committee on Suspension Bridges.
From 1989 to 1995 he was an adjunct professor at Columbia University .
Honors
In 1995 he became a member of the National Academy of Engineering . In 2018 he became a corresponding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In 2013 he received the gold medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers and in 2010 the International Award of Merit of the IABSE and the Outstanding Projects And Leaders (OPAL) Award of the ASCE , of which he is an honorary member. In 2000 he became an external member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and in 2008 the Chinese Friendship Award. He is an honorary doctor from the University of Kassel.
bridges
He has been involved in over 100 major bridge projects around the world, including:
- Shibanpo Yangtze River Bridge
- Caiyuanba Bridge (2007)
- Yangpu Bridge
- Sunshine Skyway Bridge
- Sidney Lanier Bridge , Brunswick, Georgia
- Talmadge Memorial Bridge , Savannah, Georgia
- New construction of the Bay Bridge
- Sanhao Bridge , Shenyang
- Dames Point Bridge, Jacksonville
- Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Canal Bridge
- second Yangtze River bridge in Nanjing (cable-stayed bridge)
- Seohae Grand Bridge, South Korea
- Ponte 25 de Abril , Lisbon
- Penang Bridge, Malaysia
- Glebe Island Bridge, Sydney
- Kipapa Stream Bridge, Oahu, Hawai
- H3 Windward Viaduct, Oahu
- Parrots Ferry Bridge, California
- ALRT Skytrain Bridge, Vancouver
- Belle Isle Access, Richmond
- Baytown LaPorte Bridge, Houston
- Pine Valley Creek Bridge , California
- Palmetto Express Way, Miami
- Highway I 75 / I 595 Interchange, Fort Lauderdale
Fonts
- 36 years of bridges, New York 2001
- Buckling of Cable-Stayed Girder Bridges, Journal of the Structural Division, ASCE, September 1976, pp. 1675-1684
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Acknowledgment on the occasion of the honorary doctorate from the University of Kassel
- ↑ Partly after receiving an honorary doctorate in Kassel
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tang, Man-Chung |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sino-American civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zhaoqing |