Background
Lin, Tung Hua was born on May 26, 1911 in Chungkin, China. Son of Yao-Ching and Yue (Kuo) Lin.
Lin, Tung Hua was born on May 26, 1911 in Chungkin, China. Son of Yao-Ching and Yue (Kuo) Lin.
After graduation, he entered Yenching University, majoring in physics, but the following year transferred to Chiaotung University"s Tangshan, Hebei campus (present-day Southwest Jiaotong University), graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1933. He completed his master of science degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1936.
In 1914, his family moved to Beijing. He enrolled in Huiwen High School in 1924, graduating in 1928. He returned to teach at Tsing Hua University in 1937.
Lin was asked to design aircraft during His production team worked in a cave to protect against bombing by the Japanese.
He lacked modern design tools such as wind tunnels to test the aircraft. The C-0101 which he designed and constructed, largely from bamboo and wood, was test flown from Chungking to Chengdu on November 18, 1944.
They approached the Saint Louis, Missouri-based McDonnell Aircraft about mass-producing their aircraft, but as the price quoted was too expensive, they instead chose Gloucester, England"s Gloster Aircraft Company. Lin was part of a 20-person design team who moved to England to work with them in 1947.
However, due to a lack of funding, they had to halt production in 1949, whereupon Lin moved to the United States.
There, he taught at the University of Detroit while studying for his doctorate at the University of Michigan. He became a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1955. While there, he published the Theory of Inelastic Structure in 1968.
He retired in 1978.
In May 1981, Doctor Shu-Liang Bob Wu is the last Doctor of Philosophy student that Professor Lin help to get Doctor of Philosophy degree during Professor Lin"s tenure years in University of California, Los Los Angeles The Doctor of Philosophy dissertation subject is "Stress-strain time relations under radial loadings, and plastic strain under static tension and cyclic torsion for Aluminum alloy". lieutenant is noted that this is the only Doctor of Philosophy dissertation that Professor Lin Company-Chairmen with Professor David Okrent. His research on earthquake stress in construction materials led to a fellowship in the National Academy of Engineering in 1990.
Taiwan"s Academia Sinica named him as a member in 1996.
He died of heart failure in June 2007.
Fellow American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Academy Mechanics. Member American Society of Civil Engineers (life, general chairman engineering mechanics conference 1965, Theodore von Karman award 1988). Member National Academy of Engineering.
Academy.Sinica (China).
Married Susan Z. Chiang, March 15, 1939. Childern: Rita P., Lin Wood, Robert P., James P.