Hu Haichang, male, Han nationality, is a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from Zhejiang University.
As a researcher at the China Research Institute of Space Technology, Hu was engaged in the research of elastic mechanics, including equilibrium, stability and vibration. He was also involved in the research of plastic mechanics and hydrodynamics. In 1956, Hu was responsible for establishing the generalized variation principle of three classes of variables in elastic mechanics and plastic mechanics for the first time. He took a lead in directing his colleagues and students to apply such principles to seek approximate solutions. Kutsu Kuichiro, a Japanese scientist, reestablished the above principle a year later. Owing to its important application in finite element method and other approximation solutions, the principle was widely introduced and cited in the academic literature, special works and textbooks of the USA, Japan, the U.K., the Soviet Union, Germany and France, and was named the "Kutsu Kuichiro Principle".
Hu Haichang was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.
1980— | Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
Researcher, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, China Space Technology Research Institute | ||
1950 | Graduate, Zhejiang University Zhejiang Province |