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Professor Shizhao Shen

Dept. of Civil Engineering
Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Activity (from: http://en.hit.edu.cn/m/news/3017 (dated November 17, 2017):
As a distinguished expert in the field of steel structures, academician Shen Shizhao has been committed to the emerging field of large span space structures. From the combined reticulated shell designed for the Asian Games stadiums to the variable cable net system designed for the 500-meter radio telescope, he has made a great contribution to the innovation of the space structure system. He is a leader in the fields of suspension cable structure systems and analytic theory, the nonlinear stability of the latticed shell, wind induced dynamic response of long-span, flexible roofs and studies on the failure mechanism and kinetic stability of the latticed shell during a strong earthquake. He has kept close connections with the engineering field and has designed a large number of typical, yet creative large scale space structures for many major projects. He participated in the design of major sport engineering projects such as the Bird’s Nest and the Water Cube for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Other design engineering projects include stadiums at Shijingshan district and Chaoyan district for the Asian Games, the speed-skating rink in Heilongjiang Province for the Asian Winter Games, the skating center in Jilin Province, the Weihai stadium and the Harbin International Meeting and Exhibition Center.

2017 Award [from: http://en.hit.edu.cn/m/news/3017 (dated November 17, 2017)]:
Recently, at the 2017 China Steel Construction Assembly and Zhejiang Steel Construction Forum held at Xiaoshan, Zhejiang Province, academician Shen Shizhao was awarded the “Highest Achievement Award of the China Steel Construction Society” for his outstanding contribution to the development of the steel structure industry.
Another 2017 Award [from http://hit-times.hit.edu.cn/issue/show/6 (Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) Times, 2017)]:
2nd Prize: National Scientific and Technological Progress Award
The project “Study and Application on Key Technologies of Large Span Spatial Steel Structures” won the 2nd prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress Award, which was undertaken by Prof. Fan Feng and CAS member Shen Shizhao’s research team from School of Civil Engineering.
In the past 30 years, rapid progress has been made in the field of Chinese large span spatial steel structures. Plenty of notable difficulties occurred with the increasing span and diversified structure styles, such as multi-nonlinear properties of structures, uncertainty of loading and obvious spatial correlation effects.

Selected Publications:
Chen, X., Shen, S.Z.: "Complete load–deflection response and initial imperfection analysis of single-layer lattice dome", Int. J. of Space Structures, Vol. 8(4), pp.271-8, (1993)
Wang, C., Shen, S. Z., and Chen, Y. B. (1996). “Dynamic stability of reticulated dome.” Proc. the 1st International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures, Hongkong, China, Pergamon, Oxford, UK, pp. 1065–1070.
Fan Feng; Shen Shi-zhao, Vibration reducing analysis and experimental study of viscous damper on reticulated shells, Earthquake Engineering And Engineering Vibration;2000-01
Fan Feng, Shen Shi-zhao, Vibration reducing analysis of single-layer reticulated shells with viscous-elastic dampers, Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration;2003-03
Shizhao Shen, Jihui Xing and Feng Fan, “Dynamic behavior of single-layer latticed cylindrical shells subjected to seismic loading”, Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp 269-279, December 2003
Shen, S. Z. (2003). “The dynamic stability problem of reticular shells.” Proc. IASS-APCS Symposium, China, pp. 44–46.
Shen, S. Z. (2006). “Recent advances on the fundamental research of spatial structures in China.” Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, 47(2), pp. 93–100.

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