蜀山湖畔的董辅岛,距离历史名城安徽省会合肥市二十多公里。这里静雅舒谧、风光宜人,是中国科学院合肥分院所在地,云集了我国像葛庭燧这样的科学精英,被人们称为‘科学岛’。‘内耗’科学创始人之一蜚聲中外的金属物理学家、中国科学院学部委员葛庭燧教授,皓首银鬚,身材魁梧,是位乡音未改的长者。有着山东人特有的豪爽、质朴、平易近人的性格。大半个世纪以来,他勇攀科学峰峦,又甘当他人‘铺路石’,在‘内耗’学科领域里的贡献是尤为引人瞩目。‘内耗’,是材料的一项物理性能,亦称‘消振’。固体内的振动,即使去除外部磨擦和损耗,其振幅亦随时间而减小,这是因为振动能量转变为热能而消失,‘内耗’便是这种能量消耗的效应。葛庭燧一九一三年生在山东蓬莱县的一个 Tushang Lake Shuxu Island, from the historic city of Hefei, Anhui Province, more than 20 kilometers. Here quiet and elegant, pleasant scenery, is the seat of the Hefei Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, gathered in China like Ge Ting Sui such scientific elite, was called “Science Island.” One of the founders of ’internal friction’ science is renowned Chinese and foreign metal physicist Professor Ge Tingsui, a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Shandong has a unique bold, simple, approachable character. For more than half a century, his courage to climb the scientific mountainous, willing to be paving the way for others, in the ’internal friction’ disciplinary contribution is particularly striking. ’Internal friction’ is a physical property of the material, also known as ’vibration suppression’. Vibrations in a solid, even if external friction and wear are removed, also decrease in amplitude over time because the vibrational energy is dissipated as heat energy and “internal friction” is the effect of this energy expenditure. Ge Ting Sui Peng was born in 1913 in Shandong Penglai County