Theodore HH Pian

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Theodore Hsueh Huang Pian (born January 18, 1919 in Shanghai , † June 20, 2009 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) ) was a Sino-American engineer. He taught aeronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

biography

Pian went to school in Tianjin and studied engineering at the Tsing Hua University in Beijing with a bachelor's degree in 1940. He was then an aircraft engineer in Kunming and Chengdu. From 1943 he studied at MIT with a master's degree in 1944, was in the US Marine Corps and from 1946 back at MIT, where he received his doctorate in 1948. In 1966 he was given a full professorship and in 1990 he retired. He has worked as a visiting professor around the world, especially in China, where he held several honorary professorships.

He was a pioneer of computational methods in structural mechanics. In 1964 he developed the mixed finite element method .

He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering .

His wife, Rulan Chao, was a professor of East Asian Studies and Music at Harvard.

literature

  • Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 903ff and p. 1044 (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .
  • Satya Atluri, Pin Tong (Ed.): Frontiers in computational mechanics: symposium in honor of Prof. Theodore HH Pian, Oxford, Pergamon Press 1990

Fonts

  • Analytical study of transmission load from skin to stiffeners and rings of pressurized cabin structure, Washington DC, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1944
  • with Raymond Bisplinghoff, James Mar: Statics of deformable solids, Addison-Wesley 1965
  • with Chang-Chun Wu: Hybrid and incompatible finite element methods, Chapman & Hall / CRC 2006
  • as editor: Finite element methods in structural dynamics, New York, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 1975

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pian, Derivation of element stiffness matrices, AIAA Journal, Volume 2, 1964, pp. 576-577
personal data
SURNAME Pian, Theodore HH
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pian, Theodore Hsueh Huang (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese-American engineer
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Shanghai
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 2009
Place of death Cambridge, Massachusetts