12/01/2021
Yuan-Cheng Fung
Yuan-Cheng "Bert" Fung, born on September 15, 1919 in Jiangsu, China, was an American bioengineer. He is regarded as a founding figure of bioengineering, tissue engineering, and the " of Modern Biomechanics".
He earned a bachelor's degree in 1941 and a master's degree in 1943 from the National Central University, and earned a .D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1948.
He is the 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 the Journal of Biomechanics. In 1972, Fung established the Biomechanics Symposium under the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. This became the annual Summer Bioengineering Conference. Fung and colleagues were also the first to recognize the importance of residual stress on arterial mechanical behavior.
Fung's exponential strain constitutive equation for preconditioned soft tissues is given in the picture attached. Materials that follow this law are known as Fung-elastic.
He has received numerous including National Medal of Science, 2000. Fung died in San Diego, California, aged 100, on December 15, 2019.
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