Qian Lingxi

Qian Lingxi , also Qian Ling-Xi '( Chinese  钱 令 希 ; born June 16, 1916 in Wuxi , † April 20, 2009 in Dalian ) was a Chinese civil engineer and engineering scientist.

Qian went to the French-Chinese high school in Shanghai . He studied at the Free University of Brussels from 1936 to 1938 . In 1943 he was offered the chair of civil engineering at Zhejiang University , which he did not take up until 1950 (he was also a professor at Yunnan University at the time ). From 1952 he was at the Dalian Technical University (DUT). There he founded the Faculty of Engineering Mechanics in 1958. In 1981 he became president of the DUT.

With WX Zhong he developed generalized principles of variation in plasticity theory and ultimate load-bearing capacity theory. He also developed computer methods for structural optimization (with his professor colleagues WX Zhong and GD Cheng) that were used in the design of the oil terminal in Dalian.

Haichang Hu is one of his students . He was in contact with Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz .

In 1955 he became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . From 1983 to 1987 he was President of the Chinese Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He founded the Chinese Association for Computational Mechanics.

Fonts

• with Cho WS To (Ed.): Computational engineering mechanics: selected proceedings, Pergamon Press 1988
• Statically indeterminate structure theory, 2 volumes, Peking, Science Press 2011

literature

• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 1049 (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .

Web links

• China Vitae

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Qian is the family name here, Lingxi is the first name.