AWARDEE OF TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES PRIZE

WANG ZHONGGUANG

Abstract

Wang Zhongguang, a specialist on fatigue of materials, was born in April, 1936, in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. He majored in metallic materials and graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University in 1959. And then he joined the Institute of Metal Research(IMR), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS). He is now a full professor and Ph. D. academic advisor of IMR. He is currently a board member of the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science and Chairman of Fatigue Society under the Materials Research Society of China(C-MRS). He is also a member of the International Steering Committee of Fatigue. Since 1998, he has been appointed as the associate editor of the international journals Acta Materialia and Scripta Materialia as well as an editorial advisory board member of the International Journal of Fatigue. 
Professor Wang Zhongguang has mainly devoted himself to the basic research on fatigue of materials. He investigated the basic processes in aluminum and its alloys under fatigue loading by measuring the energy dissipation. He found that the localization of deformation taking place in the specimen resulted in an extra energy dissipation. He established the experimental relationship between fatigue crack propagation threshold and fractal dimension of the fracture surface. This result provided a clear evidence for the nonuniversal nature of roughness index of the fracture surface. Since the middle of 1990s, he systematically investigated the effects of crystallographic orientation and grain boundary on cyclic deformation and fatigue damage by using double, multiple slip oriented copper single crystals as well as copper bicrystals and tricrystals. He has authored or co-authored over 280 papers and received numerous academic awards, including one third-class and one fourth-class national prizes in natural science and five second-class CAS prizes in natural science.
The State Key Laboratory for Fatigue and Fracture of Materials led by him during the years of 1988-1997 was highly ranked in three national evaluations and awarded with a Golden Ox Medal. Professor Wang Zhongguang was a member of the International Committee of Strength of Materials from 1991 to 2000. He was also the co-chairman of the 7th International Congress on Fatigue.
Professor Wang Zhongguang has supervised 26 master degree students and 20 Ph. D. students since 1984, five of them received the CAS President Prizes for excellent students. The thesis of  one of  his Ph.D. students was selected as one of the 100 excellent Ph. D. thesises in 2000 in China after a nation-wide evaluation.