Handbook of Port Machinery

Tao Dexing is a Professor at Wuhan University of Technology, where he graduated in Port Machinery Design and Manufacturing. He has extensive teaching and research experience and has participated in various projects, including the National Seventh Five-Year Plan, (2012-2016). Prof. Tao's main areas of research are logistics information systems and control, application of the Internet of Things and intelligent monitoring and diagnosis, and crane design theory and performance.

Yan Yunfu is the Director of and Chief Engineer at Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. His research and professional interests include port machinery, underground logistics, mechanical design, ocean engineering equipment, and intelligent manufacturing

Dr. Dong Dashan is the Director of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Logistics Engineering College of Shanghai Maritime University. Since 1982, he has taught at Shanghai Maritime University and his course "Structural Mechanics" received the "Quality Course in Shanghai" award in 2011. His research areas include modern design theory and methods, analysis of welding structures and fatigue design. Currently, he is a member of the committee of the China Construction Machinery Society's Hoisting Machinery Council of and the Port Machinery Council, and is an editorial board member of the Journal of Shanghai Maritime University.

Zhang Dewen is the Chief Engineer at the China Waterborne Transport Research Institute, the Executive Deputy Director of the key laboratory of China's port logistics equipment and control engineering transportation industry, the Vice Chairman of the CCMS Port Machinery Institute, and Chairman of the CMES Logistics Engineering Institute.

His works focus on techniques and equipment for port handling and oil contingency, including relevant research, development, technology consulting, quality testing, and project supervision. He has organized and participated in about one hundred national and provincial research and development projects, and he has received several scientific research awards. His research interests include lifting machinery, continuous machinery, mobile machinery, ship engineering, energy conservation and environment protection, oil contingency, as well as standardization and measurement.