Written by: Xiao Ke
Translated by: Kang Ran
Edited by: D. Paker
Date: November 17th, 2017
Recently, at the 2017 China Steel Construction Assembly and Zhejiang Steel Construction Forum held at Xiaoshan, Zhejiang Province, academician Shen Shizhao was awarded the “Highest Achievement Award of the China Steel Construction Society” for his outstanding contribution to the development of the steel structure industry.
The China Steel Construction Assembly is an annual event for the steel construction industry. The assembly is sponsored by the China Steel Construction Society, the National Engineering Research Center for Steel Construction and the Zhejiang Steel Structural Industry Association. Nearly 100 enterprises and industry associations from home and abroad as well as 600 experts and scholars from well-known colleges and universities gathered together to explore the future of the steel structure industry.
As a distinguished expert in the field of steel structure, academician Shen Shizhao has been committed to the emerging field of large span space structures. From the combined reticulated shell designed for the Asian Games stadiums to the variable cable net system designed for the 500-meter radio telescope, he has made a great contribution to the innovation of the space structure system. He is a leader in the fields of suspension cable structure systems and analytic theory, the nonlinear stability of the latticed shell, wind induced dynamic response of long-span, flexible roofs and studies on the failure mechanism and kinetic stability of the latticed shell during a strong earthquake. He has kept close connections with the engineering field and has designed a large number of typical, yet creative large scale space structures for many major projects. He participated in the design of major sport engineering projects such as the Bird’s Nest and the Water Cube for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Other design engineering projects include stadiums at Shijingshan district and Chaoyan district for the Asian Games, the speed-skating rink in Heilongjiang Province for the Asian Winter Games, the skating center in Jilin Province, the Weihai stadium and the Harbin International Meeting and Exhibition Center.
The Award Ceremony
The Honor Certificate
Shen Shizhao and his Team Members in front of the FAST
