According to Tongji University, Sun Jun, a well-known geotechnical and underground engineering expert, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and professor of Tongji University, died at 21:58 on March 1, 2024 at Zhongshan Hospital in Shanghai at the age of 98.
According to public information, Sun Jun was born in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province on October 3, 1926, graduated from the Structural Group of the Department of Civil Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in June 1949, studied in the short-term political training course of the East China People's Revolutionary University from June to September 1949, worked in the East China Aviation Department and the Public Housing Management Office in Shanghai from 1949 to 1951, taught at Shanghai Jiao Tong University from 1951 to 1952, and taught at Tongji University after the adjustment of the national faculties in September 1952.
Sun Jun was a member of the Council of Tongji University, vice chairman of the academic committee, provost, dean of the Department of Structural Engineering, honorary head of the Department of Underground Architecture and Engineering, a fellow of the International Society of Rock Mechanics, vice chairman of the International Society of Rock Mechanics and the chairman of the Chinese National Group, chairman of the Chinese Society of Rock Mechanics and Engineering, vice chairman of the Chinese Society of Civil Engineering, convener of the Civil Engineering Discipline Evaluation Group of the Academic Degree Committee, head of the Civil Engineering Discipline Group of the National Postdoctoral Expert Committee, and National Natural Science Convener of the Civil Engineering Discipline Evaluation Group of the Committee. In 1991, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Sun Jun has long been engaged in teaching, scientific research and engineering practice in the fields of geotechnical mechanics and engineering, tunnel and underground engineering, and has profound academic attainments and made outstanding contributions in the theory and application of geotechnical rheological mechanics, viscoelastic-plastic theory of underground structures, seismic and blast dynamics of underground protection engineering, and urban environmental geoengineering. He has participated in the research and construction consulting of a large number of major national engineering projects, and has won many national, provincial and ministerial awards.