According to the HIT News, recently, at the 20th International Conference of Composite Materials (ICCM) held in Copenhagen, Academic Du Shanyi, who is the president of the Chinese Society for Multiple Materials and a Professor of the School of Astronautics acquired the World Fellows of the International Committee on Composite Materials. Academic Du Shanyi is the first Chinese scientist to receive the honor. Meanwhile, three professors were elected including Professor Michael R. Wisnom of the University of Bristol, the Academic Alan A. Baker of The Australian Academy of Engineering, and the president of The American Society for Composite Materials, Professor Ozden Ochoa of Texas A&M University, with each of them having been the president of the ICCM.
The World Fellows of the ICCM is a lifelong honor for scientists with international reputation who have made outstanding academic contributions in the area of composite materials and get good grade in promoting the international cooperation, academic communication, and talent cultivation. Since 2001, nineteen specialists in the area of composite materials have gotten this honor, only four of whom are Chinese scientists including Du Shanyi. There are also three other Chinese scientists; Academic Stephen W Tsai, lifetime professor of Stanford University, is one of the pioneers and founders of the area of composite materials, the professor of the University of Delaware, Tsu-Wei Chou, is the chief editor of Composites Science and Technology and professor of Purdue University, Chin-Tec Sun, is an internationally famous specialist in the area of composite materials and structural dynamics.
Since returning to China in 1982, Du Shanyi has carried out study, application, and talent cultivation in the area of advanced composite materials and structure. He put forward the integration theory of material, design, structure, and comment, and solved several key theoretical and technological problems of thermal materials and structure. He also made contributions to multi-fielded coupling and mechanical property prediction of mechanics of composite materials, mesoscopic theory, random inclusion theory, piezoelectricity, and ferroelectrics. He took the lead in the research of the integration and intelligence of structure and function, which is accepted by most counterparts. Because of these outstanding contributions, Du Shanyi has been elected as an executive committee member of the ICCM for two periods since 2001, the vice-president of ICCM-13 and ICCM-18, and has been invited to give reports. As one of the academic foregoers of China’s composite materials, Du Shanyi positively influences the application of composite materials in aerospace, defense armament, oceanographic engineering and ships, infrastructure, and modern transportation. As the president of ICCM, he also carries out academic communication and cooperation at home and abroad, and gains the right to hold the ICCM-21, leading the team of China’s composite materials. ICCM-21 will be held in 2017, which is another grand academic meeting held in China with the largest scale and highest level since 2001. It will be beneficial to expand China’s international influence in the area of composite materials.
Mentioned in the recommendation letter from Tsu-WeiChou, the professor of the University of Delaware, Academic Du Shanyi is one of the pioneers in the development and education in the area of China’s composite materials science and technology, especially outstanding in advanced materials and applied mechanics. At the same time, Du Shanyi does much for talent cultivation and has guided over seventy doctoral students, who are playing important roles in the development of China’s composite materials.
Editor: Gao Jianzhong
