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Biography Revised: 5/13/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006

PHOTO: Zhang Youqi
Zhang Youqi 张佑启
Expert on Computing Mechanics and Civil Engineering
Birthplace: Hong Kong SAR

Biography

Zhang Youqi, male, Han nationality, is a native of Xinhui, Guangzhou Province, born in Hong Kong. He graduated from the South China Institute of Technology and received a doctorate from the University of Wales.

Zhang served as a professor and administrator at Hong Kong University. Zhang initiated research on finite element method on structural mechanics. He put forward the rectangle and triangle board unit and developed the research on elastic half space upper light sheets, advanced the combination of elastic groundwork rigidity matrix method and finite element method.

During the 1960s, he was the first to begin the research of finite element methods on non-structural mechanics and field issues, and promoted the application of finite element method in the fields of temperature, seepage and electric field. He cooperated with professor Ziewkiewicz in writing the first monograph on finite element method, researched and manufactured the first finite element software in England, and applied it in the calculation of the Clywedog dam.

He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999.

Career Data

1999 (Awarded 1st Prize, National Natural Science)
1999— Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1990 (Awarded 2nd Prize, National Natural Science)
Professor, University of Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR
Vice-Executive President, University of Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR (Received Doctorate)
1964 Graduate, University of Wales United Kingdom, Wales (Received Doctorate)
1958 Graduate, South China University of Technology Guangdong Province, Guangzhou City


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