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Professor Feng Fan

Research Center of Space Structures, Faculty of Civil Engineering
Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Activity (from http://sydney.edu.au/news/civil/318.html?newsstoryid=1518 , dated 2 January 2007):
Professor Feng Fan is Professor and Director of the Research Centre of Space Structures at Harbin Institute of Technology. Professor Feng Fan is engaged in doing research, teaching, and designing of space structures, focusing mainly on theory and methodology study of anti-seismic design of reticulated shells, structural vibration control of reticulated shells, and dynamic strength failure and failure mechanism of reticulated shells under severe earthquakes. He delivers lectures of Space Structures to both undergraduate and postgraduate students in Harbin Institute of Technology. He has developed the software to enhance the design of spatial grids structures---ASSAP1 (The Advanced Space Structure Analysis Program 1). He is in charge of a project, Dynamic Stability of Reticulated Shells under 3-D Seismic Input, supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC). He is also a main participant of a key project - Study of Earthquake-resistant and Wind-resistant Theory of Space Structures, also supported by the NNSFC. At present, he is one of main members of the national project -FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) and Professor Feng Fan is in change of the structural engineering of FAST. He has published more than 50 papers related to his study. He has designed and has overseen the design of more than fifty spatial structures, ranged mainly from large scale to medium sized ones.

2017 Award [from http://hit-times.hit.edu.cn/issue/show/6 (Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) Times, 2017)]:
2nd Prize: National Scientific and Technological Progress Award
The project “Study and Application on Key Technologies of Large Span Spatial Steel Structures” won the 2nd prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress Award, which was undertaken by Prof. Fan Feng and CAS member Shen Shizhao’s research team from School of Civil Engineering.
In the past 30 years, rapid progress has been made in the field of Chinese large span spatial steel structures. Plenty of notable difficulties occurred with the increasing span and diversified structure styles, such as multi-nonlinear properties of structures, uncertainty of loading and obvious spatial correlation effects.

Selected Publications:
Fan Feng; Shen Shi-zhao, Vibration reducing analysis and experimental study of viscous damper on reticulated shells, Earthquake Engineering And Engineering Vibration;2000-01
Fan Feng, Shen Shi-zhao, Vibration reducing analysis of single-layer reticulated shells with viscous-elastic dampers, Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration;2003-03
Shizhao Shen, Jihui Xing and Feng Fan, “Dynamic behavior of single-layer latticed cylindrical shells subjected to seismic loading”, Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp 269-279, December 2003
Zhi, X. D., Fan, F., and Shen, S. Z. (2007). “Failure mechanisms of single layer reticulated domes subjected to earthquake.” Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, 48(1), pp. 29–44
H.Z. Zhou, F. Fan and E.C. Zhu, “Buckling of reticulated laminated veneer lumber shells in consideration of the creep”, Engineering Structures, Vol. 32, No. 9, September 2010, pp. 2912-2918

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