Tung-Yen Lin, a UC Berkeley-trained structural engineer whose influence was felt around the world in his early advocacy of a resilient concrete that revolutionized the design of skyscrapers ...

Tung-Yen Lin, a structural engineer whose influence was felt around the world in his early advocacy of a resilient concrete that revolutionized the design of skyscrapers, freeway overpasses and ...

You have to throw them away or destroy them," Lin told a reporter in 1987, still enthusiastic about a design that he toyed with from the 1950s on. "But you build bridges, they last forever." ...