Tung-Hua Lin

Tung-Hua Lin ( Chinese  林 同 驊  /  林 同 骅 , Pinyin Lín Tónghúa , W.-G. Lin2 T'ung2-hua2 ; born May 26, 1911 in Chongqing , Chinese Empire , † June 18, 2007 in Los Angeles , United States ) a Sino-American engineer. He was a professor of civil engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles and developed the first twin-engine airplane in China.

He went to school in Beijing, studied in China and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master's degree in 1936. He worked in US aircraft factories and then went back to China, where the Chinese government developed one during the Japanese occupation commissioned a twin-engine wooden transport aircraft (C-1010), which successfully completed its maiden flight in 1944. After the war, he and others developed a jet plane in China and looked for production facilities in the USA and England, but this failed for financial reasons. In 1949 he went to the USA, received his doctorate at the University of Michigan and taught at the University of Detroit and from 1955 at UCLA. In 1978 he retired .

In addition to aircraft construction, he dealt with steel construction, for example for bridges, and earthquake-proof construction.

In 1988 he received the Von Karman Medal . He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and Academia Sinica (1996).

His cousin Tung-Yen Lin (1912-2003) was also a well-known civil engineer who received the National Medal of Science .

Fonts

• Theory of Inelastic Structures. Wiley 1968

Web links

• UCLA professor who designed Chinese twin-engine plan dies at 96. June 24, 2007 (obituary)
• Tung Hua Lin, D.Sc. ( September 15, 2007 memento on the Internet Archive ) on the University of California, Los Angeles website