| Zhou Benlian Credit - China Academy of Sciences
| Zhou Benlian Chinese Engineer. . Personal: Male. Born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China. Materials scientist, made important contributions to development of Chinese heat shield materials and composite structures for space station applications. Official Chinese Academy of Sciences Biography Zhou Benlian
Materials physicist Born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. Graduated
from Department of Physics, Tsinghua University in 1952. Research professor, Institute of
Metals Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Zhou began to study the thermophysical properties of materials in 1958.
He established the IMR section of the National Base of High Temperature Thermophysical
Properties Measurement, making contributions to the determination of thermophysical
properties of key materials for important tasks of national defense. He did creative work
in measuring the thermal conductivity during ablation, and developed an analytical
solution of the moving boundary equation and a laser pulse heating-cooling method for
specific heat measurements, etc. He derived an expression for a non-linear anisotropic
temperature field and stress field, compared with CT detection, clarified the failure
mechanism of C/C composites by thermal stress under re-entry conditions, and suggested
important criteria for thermal design. He studied theoretically the microscopic process of
the thermophysical properties of materials and observed the dynamic process of sudden
change of physical properties. He measured successfully the thermal expansion of thin
films, and provided data for the thermal design of space station. He began the biomimetic
study of composites in the mid 1980s, and achieved noticeable results, such as the
reinforcing effect of dumb-bell type whisker simulating long bones, and obtained twice the
value of that by the plain whisker.
He was elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997.
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