Professor Yi-Ming Fu was born in August, 1945 in southern China. He obtained a bachelor degree of mechanical engineering in Hunan University in 1968. After that, he worked as a R&D engineer in the Great Wall Control Electric Co., LTD for 11 years. In 1981, He obtained a master degree of solid mechanics from the graduate school of Tongji University in Shanghai, China. From then on, he has been teaching and researching on solid mechanics at Hunan University for about 30 years. During this period, He was the department chair, for 18 years, of engineering mechanics of Hunan University and, he also did research in other universities, such as, the University of Calgary, Hong Kong University for over 4 years. Besides, he has been part of the editorial board of many journals including Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Chinese Journal of Applied Mechanics, Journal of Vibration and Shock, etc. His research interest is mainly on the elasto-plastic theory, damage mechanics, structural nonlinear dynamics, and composite structures. He has authored eight monographs and textbooks as well as more than 250 refereed journal articles in those fields.