[6] The C-0101 which he designed and constructed, largely from bamboo and wood, was test flown from Chungking to Chengdu on November 18, 1944.
However, due to a lack of funding, they had to halt production in 1949, whereupon Lin moved to the United States.
He became a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1955; while there, he published the Theory of Inelastic Structure in 1968.
The Ph.D dissertation subject is "Stress-strain time relations under radial loadings, and plastic strain under static tension and cyclic torsion for Aluminum alloy" .
Lin was awarded the Theodore von Kármán Medal by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1988.
[1] His research on earthquake stress in construction materials led to a fellowship in the National Academy of Engineering in 1990.