Yuan-Cheng Fung 馮元楨 | |
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| Born | (1919-09-15)September 15, 1919 |
| Died | December 15, 2019(2019-12-15) (aged 100) San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | National Central University California Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Bioengineering Biomechanics |
| Spouse | Luna Yu Hsien-Shih |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | von Karman Medal (1976) Otto Laporte Award (1977) Timoshenko Medal (1991) National Medal of Science (2000) Jordan Allen Medal (1991) Russ Prize (2007) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Bioengineering Biomechanics |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology UC San Diego |
| Doctoral advisor | Ernest Sechler |
Yuan-Cheng "Bert" Fung (September 15, 1919 – December 15, 2019) was a Chinese-American bioengineer and writer. He is regarded as a founding figure ofbioengineering,tissue engineering, and the "Founder of ModernBiomechanics".[1]
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Fung was born inJiangsu Province, China in 1919. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1941 and a master's degree in 1943 from theNational Central University (later renamedNanjing University inmainland China and reinstated inTaiwan), and earned a Ph.D. from theCalifornia Institute of Technology in 1948. Fung was Professor Emeritus and Research Engineer at theUniversity of California San Diego. He published prominent texts along with Pin Tong who was then at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. Fung died atJacobs Medical Center in San Diego, California, aged 100, on December 15, 2019.[2][3]
Fung was married to Luna Yu Hsien-Shih, a former mathematician and cofounder of the UC San Diego International Center, until her death in 2017. The couple raised two children.[4]
He is the author of numerous books including Foundations of Solid Mechanics, Continuum Mechanics, and a series of books on Biomechanics. He is also one of the principal founders of theJournal of Biomechanics and was a past chair of theASME InternationalApplied Mechanics Division. In 1972, Fung established the Biomechanics Symposium under the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. This biannual summer meeting, first held at the Georgia Institute of Technology, became the annual Summer Bioengineering Conference. Fung and colleagues were also the first to recognize the importance of residual stress on arterial mechanical behavior.[5]
Fung's famous exponential strainconstitutive equation for preconditionedsoft tissues is
with
quadratic forms ofGreen-Lagrange strains and, and material constants.[6] is astrain energy function per volume unit, which is the mechanical strain energy for a given temperature. Materials that follow this law are known asFung-elastic.[7]
Fung was elected to theUnited States National Academy of Sciences (1993),[13] theNational Academy of Engineering (1979),[14] theInstitute of Medicine (1991),[15] theAcademia Sinica (1968),[16] and was a Foreign Member of theChinese Academy of Sciences (1994 election).
