Professor of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology. He received B.Sc degree in 1982 and Ph.D degree in 1988 from Nanjing University of Technology.
Driven by the safety concern of the process and energy equipment, Professor Tu has been searching for knowledge of temperature effect on failure of materials, structures and processes, which includes time-dependent fracture mechanics, creep and fatigue and structural integrity in general in relation to high temperature applications. He is an author of more than 300 papers and received a number of distinguished awards, including China National Science and Technology Progress Award, National Teaching Achievement Award, China Youth Science and Technology Award, ASME Best Paper Award and so on. He is currently an honorary professor of the University of Nottingham. And he has been the honorary president of Chinese Pressure Vessel Institution (since 2010) and the honorary president of Chinese Materials Institution (since 2015) of China Mechanical Engineering Society, Chairman of China Structural Integrity Consortium, Chairman of Asian Oceanic Regional Committee of International Council for Pressure Vessel Technology, a member of reliability committee of IFToMM and so on. He is also serving a number of journals as an associate editor or editorial board member, including Int J Pres Ves and Piping, J Applied Energy, J of Materials Science and Technology, Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, Frontier of Mechanical Engineering, Advances in Mechanical Engineering and so on.