Qian Lingxi

On 26 July 1916, Qian was born in the town of Hongsheng (鸿声镇, now Hongshan Subdistrict) outside the city of Wuxi in Jiangsu, China.

[1][4][5] During the Cultural Revolution, top experts including Qian Lingxi and Huang Xuhua were denounced as "reactionary academic authorities" and dismissed from their posts.

[6] When China's nuclear submarine project needed Qian's help to analyze its structural designs, its leader Chen Youming had to appeal directly to Premier Zhou Enlai to make him available to the strategic program.

[8] In the early 1960s, Qian and his student Zhong Wanxie published two papers in Science in China and Acta Mechanica Sinica, on the "general variational theory of limit analysis and plasticity".

In the early 1980s, Qian, together with Zhong Wanxie and Cheng Gengdong, developed DDDU, an advanced computer system for structural design.

Six of his former students have become academicians: Pan Jiazheng, Hu Haichang, Cheng Gengdong, Zhong Wanxie, Qiu Dahong, and Yang Jinzong.

[7] Qian Lingxi and Zhong Wanxie, On Limit Analysis in Solid Mechanics and Suggest a General Variational Principle, The Science and Technology Commission of the Republic of China, Beijing, 1964.

[8] Qian Lingxi, editor in chief, Selected Papers on Structural Optimization, Guanghua Publishing House, Beijing, 1979.

[10] Qian Lingxi, editor in chief, Proceedings of the 1980 National Conference on Computational Mechanics, Peking University Press, Beijing, 1981.

[12] Qian Lingxi, Selected Papers of O. C. Zienkiewicz on Finite Element Method, China Academic Press, Beijing, 1982.

[14] Qian Lingxi, Optimal Design of Engineering Structure, Water Conservancy and Electric Power Press, Beijing, 1983.