C. Fellowships
Name
Chan, Kwok Sum
Pun, Kin Kee
Wong, Tuck Ming
D. Other Grants and Awards
1. Water Quality Control and Management
Subject and Institution Physics (Oxford)
Medicine
(Royal Free Hospital, London, and California) Anatomy (Bristol)
An application was received from Hong Kong Polytechnic for a grant to provide travel and subsistence for two invited English experts to participate in a symposium on water control and management to be held in Canton under the joint sponsorship of the Polytechnic and Chinese technical institutions. In view of the importance of the subject and the cooperative aspects of the proposed symposium it was agreed to provide the required sum of HK$29,880. 2. Civil Engineering
a. Research in Civil Engineering
An application was received from Professor Y.K. Cheung, Head of the Civil Engineering Department in the University of Hong Kong, who wished to initiate a programme of six- month visits from senior workers in Chinese universities to undertake joint research with Professor Cheung's group in Hong Kong. The Trustees considered this to be an interesting experiment and agreed to make a grant of HK$90,000 for one year to invite two such workers, subject to the approval of the University of Hong Kong and its willingness to administer the grant. A possible extension for a further one or two years would be considered in the light of the first year's experience.
b. Study of Tall Buildings - Foundation Soil Interaction
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Tall buildings are today a prominent feature of most urban areas and especially of Hong Kong so that precise knowledge of superstructure-foundation-soil interactions is of great importance. The superstructures of these buildings generally comprise frames and shear/core walls, coupled together to provide resistance, both vertical and horizontal against the loadings. The foundations receive the total loadings from the superstructures and transmit them to the soil. Methods currently used in the analysis of such buildings are based on the assumption that the superstructure and foundation can be treated separately and as a result they not infrequently overdesign the structure as a whole and underdesign the local stress at the connections between members. To develop a unified numerical method for such analyses and to test it by field measurements is the object of a research project submitted by Professor Y.K. Cheung of the University of Hong Kong to be carried out jointly under the direction of Professor Cheung and Dr. L.G. Tham (a former Croucher Foundation Fellow) of the University of Hong Kong and Professor Zhai Xi-Hong, Tongji University, Shanghai. Much preliminary work in this field has already been done by these workers in Hong-Kong and Shanghai and the research plan as submitted being both important and well thought-out, the Trustees agreed to support it by means of a grant of HK$416,000 spread over a period of 3 years.
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