Teng-fong Wong

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Teng-fong Wong (* around 1952) is an American expert on rock mechanics . He has been Professor of Geophysics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY) since 1982 .

Wong studied mathematics from 1970 onwards at Brown University ( bachelor's degree in applied mathematics 1973 magna cum laude ) and Harvard University with a master's degree in applied mechanics in 1976. He then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he studied geophysics in 1980 received his doctorate. In 1982 he became Assistant Professor , 1986 Associate Professor and 1992 Professor at SUNY. From 2004 to 2007 he was head of the Faculty of Geosciences. In 2004 he is also a professor in the statics faculty.

He is also Professor and Director of the Earth System Science Program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Among other things, he was visiting scholar and visiting professor at the École normal supérieure (1998, 2003), the University of Science and Technology in China, at the University of Strasbourg (2003, 2008), at the ETH Zurich (1990, 1996), at MIT ( 1989) and at the Australian National University (1988).

He investigated the phenomenological and micromechanical aspects of rock mechanics and fluids in rock experimentally, through quantitative characterization of the microstructure and theoretically. Among other things, he uses micro-computer tomography with synchrotron radiation, three-dimensional laser scan microscopy and acoustic emission measurement in his laboratory . He investigated fracture behavior and plastic flow in rock, the development of permeability for liquids and seismic parameters with applications, among other things, to earthquake research, liquid flows in porous rock, reservoir behavior of rock formations (such as compaction), borehole instability. He is the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth involved (SAFOD), a drilling program for the study of rock behavior on the San Andreas Fault .

In 2010 he received the Louis Néel Medal .

Fonts

  • Editor with Brian Evans Fault Mechanics and Transport Properties of Rocks, A Festschrift in Honor of WF Brace , Academic Press 1992
  • with Mervyn Paterson Experimental Rock Deformation- the Brittle Field , 2nd edition, Springer Verlag 2005
  • with Y. Chen, E. Liu Rock Physics , USTC Press, Hefei 2009 (Chinese)

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personal data
SURNAME Wong, Teng-fong
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1952