我国航空航天结构强度事业的开拓者——黄玉珊

Professor Huang Yushan was a famous scientist as well as educator in solid mechanics, aeronautics and astronautics in new China. He was enrolled at National Central University in 1931 when he was under 14 years old. He studied for a Ph.D. degree at Stanford University from 1939 to 1940 under the supervision of S. P. Timoshenko, a master in mechanics. As soon as he received his Ph.D. degree, he returned to his motherland without hesitation and was employed as a full professor at National Central University when he was no more than 23 years old. After the founding of New China, even facing to such problems as weak technical foundation, lack of talents and imperfect education system in aeronautics and astronautics engineering, he took infinite pains and devoted his whole life to development of science and technology as well as education. He was regarded as not only the founder of determination, extension of fatigue life and damage tolerance evaluation for in-service air-crafts as well as damage tolerance design for new aircraft, but also the pioneer of self-induced vibration in aeronautics and structural environment strength in astronautics. The article comprehensively overviews the major contributions of Prof. Huang in the area of solid mechanics and structural strength in aeronautics and astronautics, to memorize his firm spirit of serving the nation, rigorous and realistic attitude towards scholarship, courage to be a pioneer, visionary academic perspective, realistic and pragmatic educational thought.