PREFACE--------------------------------------------------------------------------- i
Chapter 1 Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------ 1
Chapter 2 Start of Research Life------------------------------------------------- 4
Chapter 3 Themes Discovery------------------------------------------------------ 6
Chapter 4 Encounter with Dr. Maunsell's Notch Treatise --------------------10
Chapter 5 Numerical Calculation by Mechanical Calculators from 1930s
to 1960s----------------------------------------------------------------- 20
Chapter 6 Novelty of Dr. Maunsell's Treatise---------------------------------- 24
Chapter 7 How to find a Research Theme --------------------------------------29
Chapter 8 Turning Point -----------------------------------------------------------33
Chapter 9 Originality of the Research------------------------------------------- 38
Chapter 10 Challenge to Western Academic Papers ---------------------------47
Chapter 11 Challenge to Notch Problems----------------------------------------53
Chapter 12 Return to Dr. Maunsell's Treatise of Notch -----------------------58
Chapter13 "Interference Phenomena" of Notches and Holes -----------------73
Chapter 14 Challenge to 3D Elastic Problems-----------------------------------85
Chapter 15 Basic Formula of Three-Dimensional Elasticity-------------------87
Chapter 16 A Cylinder with A Spherical Cavity by Prof. Ching-Bing Ling --91
Chapter 17 "Interference Phenomena" in a Cylinder with an Infinite Number
of Spherical Cavities-----------------------------------------------------107
Chapter 18 Road to University Professor--------------------------------------- 124
Chapter 19 Advances in Computers and Changes in Research --------------126
Afterward ----------------------------------------------------------------------------133
Author’s Afterword ----------------------------------------------------------------134