May, 2002, Miami Florida
Military Handbook 17 is pleased to recognize Han-Pin Kan for his meritorious service to the Polymeric Composites Handbook and to the composites community in general.
Han-Pin's contributions to the PMC Handbook were numerous and reflected his expertise in mechanics of composites including fatigue, damage tolerance, and statistics; technical fields in which he was active for more than thirty years.
He was the sole author of a section in Volume 3 on durability and a major contributor to the structural reliability chapter, also in Volume 3. The material in the Handbook was based on his research work that is still used and misused today in certification of composite aircraft structures such as scatter factors on load so as to reduce fatigue lifetimes testing.
Although his other contributions to the Handbook may not be as visible as they are buried in the collective enterprise that the Handbook represents, he did contribute valuable editing and discussion that has made this Handbook valuable to future users.
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