Zhong Wanxie

Zhong Wanxie (; 24 February 1934 – 12 November 2023), also known as Wan-Xie Zhong, was a Chinese civil engineer and physicist. He was a professor at the Dalian University of Technology who specializes in computational mechanics and engineering mechanics. He pioneered computational mechanics in China and served as the founding Chairman of the Chinese Association for Computational Mechanics and an executive committee member of the International Association for Computational Mechanics. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1993.

Biography Zhong Wanxie was born on 24 February 1934 in Shanghai, Republic of China. His father, Zhong Zhaolin (钟兆琳), was a distinguished professor of electrical engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. After graduating from Tongji University in 1956, he entered the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and studied under Qian Weichang and Hu Haichang. From 1958, he taught mechanics at the University of Science and Technology of China.

In 1962, on the recommendation of Hu Haichang, Zhong was transferred to the Dalian University of Technology (DUT) to work under Qian Lingxi. He remained a professor at DUT for the rest of his career. It was successfully used to design major projects such as the Shanghai TV Tower, the Liaoning Indoor Stadium, and the Shanghai Indoor Stadium.