我国航空航天结构强度事业的开拓者——黄玉珊

黄玉珊先生是我国著名的力学家、航空航天科学家, 新中国航空高等教育的奠基人. 他不满14岁考入大学, 不满23岁时师从国际著名力学大师铁摩辛柯获博士学位, 随即义无反顾地回到战火连绵的祖国, 受聘中央大学教授. 新中国成立后, 面对航空工业初建时期技术基础薄弱、人才储备不足、教育体系不完善的困境, 他呕心沥血, 鞠躬尽瘁, 建立新学科, 开创新局面, 毕生致力于祖国航空航天教育和科技事业. 他被认为是我国旧飞机疲劳定寿和延寿、损伤容限评定和新飞机损伤容限设计最早的创始人之一, 也是我国飞机自激励振动研究和航天结构环境强度事业的开拓者. 本文通过回顾黄玉珊先生在固体力学、航空航天结构强度领域的主要学术成果和卓越贡献, 缅怀其坚定不移的报国情怀、严谨求实的治学态度、勇于开拓的创新精神、高瞻远瞩的学术视野以及求真务实的教育思想. 

A pioneer of structural strength in aeronautics and astronautics in China — Huang Yushan

Professor Huang Yushan was a famous scientist as well as educator in solid mechanics, aeronautics and astronautics in new China. He was enrolled at National Central University in 1931 when he was under 14 years old. He studied for a Ph.D. degree at Stanford University from 1939 to 1940 under the supervision of S. P. Timoshenko, a master in mechanics. As soon as he received his Ph.D. degree, he returned to his motherland without hesitation and was employed as a full professor at National Central University when he was no more than 23 years old. After the founding of New China, even facing to such problems as weak technical foundation, lack of talents and imperfect education system in aeronautics and astronautics engineering, he took infinite pains and devoted his whole life to development of science and technology as well as education. He was regarded as not only the founder of determination, extension of fatigue life and damage tolerance evaluation for in-service aircrafts as well as damage tolerance design for new aircraft, but also the pioneer of self-induced vibration in aeronautics and structural environment strength in astronautics. The article comprehensively overviews the major contributions of Prof. Huang in the area of solid mechanics and structural strength in aeronautics and astronautics, to memorize his firm spirit of serving the nation, rigorous and realistic attitude towards scholarship, courage to be a pioneer, visionary academic perspective, realistic and pragmatic educational thought.