何度心1930年生于湖南省桃江县,1953年毕业于武汉大学工学院土木工程系,同年被分配到筹建中的中国科学院土木建筑研究所(原中国科学院工程力学研究所,现国家地震局工程力学研究所),并立即参加了刘恢先教授领导的建所工程设计。1954年何度心开始从事砖结构、钢筋混凝土结构和壳体结构等静力学方面的 He Duxin Born in Taojiang County, Hunan Province in 1930, he graduated from the Civil Engineering Department of Wuhan University in 1953 and was assigned to the Institute of Civil Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (formerly Institute of Engineering Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, now the State Seismological Bureau, Institute of Mechanics) and immediately participated in the engineering design of the institute led by Professor Liu Huixian. In 1954, He Xinsheng began to engage in the static mechanics of brick structures, reinforced concrete structures and shell structures