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Biography

Xiao Jimei, male, Han nationality, is a native of Fenghuang, Hunan Province. He graduated from Communications University in 1943 and received a doctorate from University of Missouri in 1950.

Xiao spent most of his career as a professor at Beijing Science and Technology University. He also served as superintendent of the Material Failure Research Institute. Xiao published ten monographs.

During his career, he mainly carried out scientific research in the fields of alloy steel, crystal interface absorption, precipitation deposition, intercrystal corrosion, fracture discipline and hydrogen destruction. His research emphasized the comprehensive utilization of metal physics, fracture mechanics and corrosion science to analyze and solve some key fracture problems and material quality problems in national economic and national defense construction. He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.