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Biography

Zhou Benkuan, male, Han nationality, is a native of Chongqing. He was born in 1946, graduated from the navigation department of East China College of Water Resources, and obtained a master's degree in engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University. He is currently a professor in the engineering mechanics department. In 1998 he was appointed as president of Southwest Jiaotong University.

Zhou Benkuan has devoted his research to structural engineering and computational mechanics. He is the first person to achieve the self-adapting grid optimization of multivariate finite element analysis, and he established self-adapting criterion, error estimation methods, and various kinds of self-adapting analytical programs. He attended several international academic conferences and was invited to give lectures at the Technical University of Munich in Germany. He is the primary researcher of over ten projects such as the National Key Science and Technology Projects of "the Seventh Five-Year Plan" and "the Eighth Five-Year Plan", as well as projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Education Commission of the State Council, the Scientific and Technological Development Foundation of the Ministry of Railway and others.