19 15, two years after Zhang Wei was born, his father died suddenly, and his family was poor only by his father's savings and his brother's salary.
19 18 entered Beijing primary school at the age of 5, was admitted to Beijing No.4 Middle School at the age of1/kloc-0, and was transferred to Tianjin Beiyang University Preparatory School at the age of 15.
1929, 16 years old, admitted to the Department of Civil Engineering of Tangshan Jiaotong University (now Southwest Jiaotong University). At that time, the school was named national chiao tung university Tangshan Institute of Technology. A generation of famous teachers, represented by Luo, Gu and Huang, were in their prime of life. Zhu Wuhua, Zhu Fengxiang, Zhu Guofang, Zhu Guofang, Zhu Guofang and Zhu Guofang once taught in this school, making Southwest Jiaotong University the most famous engineering college at that time. Zhang Wei is obsessed with mathematics and physics, especially mathematics. During my college years, I did well in my studies.
1933, aged 20, graduated with honors from the Civil Engineering Department of Tangshan Jiaotong University (majoring in structural engineering) with a bachelor's degree in engineering. His classmates (Class 1933, Tangshan Jiaotong University) include Lin Tonghua, Yan Kai and Liu Huixian, academicians of the American Academy of Engineering.
After graduating from college, Zhang Wei was assigned to practice in Longhai Railway, a railway artery that was still extending westward and running through the east and west, and moved to the construction site of Tongxi section from Tongguan to xi 'an to assist in railway construction in Huayin and Baqiao.
1In April, 934, he returned to his alma mater, Tangshan Jiaotong University (now Southwest Jiaotong University) as a teaching assistant of structural mechanics and structural engineering. During this period, he began to form an indissoluble bond with mechanics. From 1933 to 1934, the United States published a new version of railway bridge regulations. Zhang Wei consulted a large number of mechanical works and documents and wrote a paper on the theoretical basis of the Code. This paper, with its original insights, was highly praised by the presiding professor in the application and admission process of studying in boxer indemnity, China and Britain.
From 65438 to 0937, Theway went to study in Britain as the fifth Sino-British boxer indemnity international student with excellent examination results. With the belief of "saving the country through science", he arrived in London in mid-September, studied under the guidance of Pippard, a prestigious professor of civil engineering in Imperial College London, London at that time, and obtained a diploma (DIC) from Imperial College London one year later. This winter vacation, in order to seek better study conditions and deeper engineering knowledge, he crossed the English Channel to visit Germany. He is very interested in the research of shell theory by Professor F. Tolke of Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany. Seeing that shell theory will shine brilliantly in the research of solid mechanics and structural engineering, he decided to study in Germany. After many twists and turns, he was finally allowed to go to the Department of Engineering Mechanics of the Department of Civil Engineering of Berlin University of Technology (now Berlin University of Technology) in July 1938 to study shell theory under the guidance of Professor Telker. After the outbreak of World War II, he had to stay in Germany.
From 65438 to February 0942, he worked as a teaching assistant in the Engineering Mechanics Department of Berlin University of Technology, engaged in teaching and scientific research, and completed many studies such as tunnel stress analysis and elastic wave oil exploration.
From 1944 to 10, he passed the thesis defense with excellent results and obtained the doctor's degree in engineering. Zhang Wei used the equation derived by Telker to solve the stress state problem of circular ring shell under arbitrary rotational symmetric load for the first time in the world by asymptotic method and Bessel function. At that time, the large turbine of Xiaofengman Hydropower Station in China was designed and produced by Swiss escher-Wyss Maschinen-Buufabrik Company. In order to master the advanced technology needed by the motherland's engineering construction, Zhang Wei contacted the factory through various channels. Finally, he was allowed to move to Switzerland in September 1945, and worked as a research engineer in the research department of the famous escher-Weiss Machinery Factory at that time, engaged in forked pipes and rotating machinery.
1946 In May, after learning that he could return to China, Zhang decided to terminate the contract with the consent of the factory. Without waiting for the bank to thaw, with the help of the Embassy of China in Paris, the family of three took a boat from Marseille Port, passing through Saigon and Hong Kong, and went back to Shanghai after hardships. After returning to China, he was employed by Tongji University and Beiyang University.
65438-0947 was employed by Tsinghua University and shared the teaching of mechanics course with Qian Weichang who had been teaching in Tsinghua. He has taught material mechanics, advanced material mechanics, structural mechanics, elastic-plastic mechanics and shell theory.
From 195 1, Zhang Wei began to engage in administration, teaching and scientific research management due to the adjustment and development of colleges and departments in colleges and universities.
From 65438 to 0952, he served as the director of engineering department of three universities (Tsinghua, Peking University and Yanjing).
From 65438 to 0954, he served as the director of Tsinghua University Municipal Construction Committee, and contributed to the capital construction of the Three Schools and Tsinghua. 1952 to 1956 as the director of the civil engineering department of Tsinghua university.
1955, Zhang Wei was elected as an academician of China Academy of Sciences.
65438-0956 According to the national and school planning, Tsinghua has set up a number of new majors.
From 65438 to 0958, he established the Department of Mathematics of Engineering Mechanics and served as the first dean. After 1957, Zhang Wei served as the vice president of Tsinghua University, who was in charge of teaching and scientific research until 1966, the Cultural Revolution.
During the period of 1962- 1984, he served as the chairman of the editorial board of engineering mechanics teaching materials of the Ministry of Education and the head of mechanics discipline organization.
During the Cultural Revolution, Zhang Wei was forced to suffer for several years. /kloc-in the spring of 0/976, he offered to leave his leadership position and join the school-run factory.
1977 Zhang Wei returned to the post of Vice President of Tsinghua University.
65438-0983 was appointed as the first president of Shenzhen University by the State Education Commission. No matter he is seventy years old, he goes back and forth between Shenzhen and Beijing eight times a year. In order to invite well-known experts at home and abroad to work and teach in Shenzhen University, he visited many places for advice and touched many experts. He took the lead in implementing the system of work-study program for students, and carried out a series of reforms on the appointment of teachers, the establishment of departments and teaching plans. Together with other school leaders, he contributed to the establishment of Shenzhen University.
From 65438 to 0956, Zhang Wei participated in the formulation of the China 12 scientific vision plan and served as the head of the water and soil construction group.
1962 participated in the formulation of the ten-year scientific development plan, served as the deputy head of the mechanics group of the scientific development plan, initiated with experts such as Guo Yonghuai and Liu Huixian, and included the explosion-proof and earthquake-resistant issues in the national plan for the first time.
65438-0978, participated in the formulation of eight-year science and technology development plan, served as the executive deputy head of theoretical and applied mechanics Group, and made efforts and contributions to the development of engineering mechanics in China.
From 1980 to 1987, he was re-elected as a member of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee and head of mechanical discipline group. 1987- 1990 served as the director of the science and technology Committee of the state education commission.
1994, China engineering institute was established, and he was elected as the first academician of China engineering institute.