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Tung Hua Lin, the Glossary

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Tung Hua Lin (May 26, 1911 – June 18, 2007) was a Chinese-American aerospace and structural engineer best known for designing China's first twin engine aircraft during World War II.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 39 relations: Academia Sinica, Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aircraft, Aircraft engine, American Society of Civil Engineers, Beijing, Cave, Chengdu, Chinese Americans, Chinese language, Chongqing, Earthquake, Flight test, Gloster Aircraft Company, Gloucester, Hebei, Japan, Jet aircraft, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, National Academy of Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, St. Louis, Stress (mechanics), Structural engineer, Taiwan, Tangshan, Telegraphy, Theodore von Kármán, Tsinghua University, Tung-Yen Lin, UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, United States, University of Detroit Mercy, University of Michigan, Wind tunnel, World War II, Yenching University.

  2. American structural engineers
  3. Chinese aerospace engineers
  4. Chinese aircraft designers
  5. Chinese structural engineers
  6. Educators from Chongqing
  7. Engineers from Chongqing
  8. Tsien family
  9. University of Detroit Mercy faculty

Academia Sinica

Academia Sinica (AS, 3), headquartered in Nangang, Taipei, is the national academy of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

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Aeronautics

Aeronautics is the science or art involved with the study, design, and manufacturing of air flight-capable machines, and the techniques of operating aircraft and rockets within the atmosphere.

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Aerospace

Aerospace is a term used to collectively refer to the atmosphere and outer space.

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Aircraft

An aircraft (aircraft) is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.

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Aircraft engine

An aircraft engine, often referred to as an aero engine, is the power component of an aircraft propulsion system.

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American Society of Civil Engineers

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is a tax-exempt professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide.

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Cave

A cave or cavern is a natural void under the Earth's surface.

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Chengdu

Chengdu is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan.

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Chinese Americans

Chinese Americans are Americans of Chinese ancestry.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.

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Chongqing

Chongqing is a municipality in Southwestern China.

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Earthquake

An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Flight test

Flight testing is a branch of aeronautical engineering that develops specialist equipment required for testing behaviour and systems of aircraft or testing the atmospheric phase of launch vehicles and reusable spacecraft.

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Gloster Aircraft Company

The Gloster Aircraft Company was a British aircraft manufacturer from 1917 to 1963.

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Gloucester

Gloucester is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England.

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Hebei

Hebei is a province in North China.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Jet aircraft

A jet aircraft (or simply jet) is an aircraft (nearly always a fixed-wing aircraft) propelled by one or more jet engines.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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McDonnell Aircraft Corporation

The McDonnell Aircraft Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer based in St. Louis, Missouri.

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National Academy of Engineering

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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Southwest Jiaotong University

Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) is a national public science and engineering university in Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

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St. Louis

St.

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Stress (mechanics)

In continuum mechanics, stress is a physical quantity that describes forces present during deformation.

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Structural engineer

Structural engineers analyze, design, plan, and research structural components and structural systems to achieve design goals and ensure the safety and comfort of users or occupants.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.

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Tangshan

Tangshan is a coastal, industrial prefecture-level city in the northeast of Hebei province.

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Telegraphy

Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message.

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Theodore von Kármán

Theodore von Kármán (szőllőskislaki) Kármán Tódor, May 11, 1881May 6, 1963), was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who worked in aeronautics and astronautics.

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Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University is a public university in Haidian, Beijing.

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Tung-Yen Lin

Tung-Yen Lin (November 14, 1912 – November 15, 2003) was a Chinese-American structural engineer who was the pioneer of standardizing the use of prestressed concrete. Tung Hua Lin and Tung-Yen Lin are American structural engineers, Chinese emigrants to the United States, members of Academia Sinica and Tsien family.

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UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, informally known as UCLA Samueli School of Engineering or UCLA Engineering, is the school of engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University of Detroit Mercy

The University of Detroit Mercy is a private Roman Catholic university in Detroit, Michigan.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Wind tunnel

Wind tunnels are machines in which objects are held stationary inside a tube, and air is blown around it to study the interaction between the object and the moving air.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yenching University

Yenching University was a private research university in Beijing, China, from 1919 to 1952.

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See also

American structural engineers

Chinese aerospace engineers

Chinese aircraft designers

Chinese structural engineers

Educators from Chongqing

Engineers from Chongqing

Tsien family

University of Detroit Mercy faculty

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tung_Hua_Lin

Also known as Lin Tonghua, Lin Tung-Hua, Tung-Hua Lin.