China Vitae

Biography

Huang Kezhi, male, Han nationality, is a native of Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. He graduated from Jiangxi President University. He was a postgraduate at Tsinghua University in 1952.

Huang served as professor of Tsinghua University and superintendent of the Engineering Mechanics Research Institute. In the study of rupture mechanics, Huang is known for putting forward a new crack tip singular field theory for important power hardened materials used in engineering. He provided a new evaluation method for structural defects.

In the field of shell theory, he put forward a unified thin shell categorization theory, developed a decomposition and synthesis method and a secondary approximation for boundary layer theory, which increased the precision of boundary layer of shell. In the study of applying mechanical theory to solve actual production problems, he founded a design method for heat exchanger pipelines and boards that was adopted as the national standard. The design method is superior to similar methods prevailing in industrial countries, such as France and the USA, and it has been widely applied in the industrial sectors of the country.

Huang Kezhi was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.