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Professor Chao Zhang

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Department of Aeronautical Structure
Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an City, Shaanxi, China

Summary:
Chao Zhang is a professor at the School of Aeronautics of Northwestern Polytechnical University. He was selected into the “National Thousand Talents Program Youth Project” and Shaanxi “Youth 100 People Program” in 2017. His major research areas include mechanical behavior of composite materials and their structures and multi-scale multi-field coupling numerical simulation methods. He has gained a series innovative achievement in the fields of multi-scale failure behavior and simulation of braided composites, impact dynamics behavior of aerospace materials and their structures etc.

Education:
2010.08-2013.12 The University of Akron, Civil Engineering (Composite Mechanics), Ph.D.
2008.09-2010.06 Wuhan University of Technology, Composite Science, M.E.
2004.09-2008.06 Wuhan University of Technology, Composite Materials and Engineering, B.E.

Research Interests:
Multi-scale failure behavior and meso-scale simulation of textile composites; Composite aging; Impact dynamics of composites and composite structures; Multi-scale modeling method and structure optimization method for composites; Mechanical-electrochemical-thermal coupled failure behavior and simulation of lithium-ion battery.

Selected Publications:
Chao Zhang, Jianlong Ji and Jianping Lei, “Investigation on Buckling of Cylindrical Shells and Influences of Boundary Conditions”, Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 243 - 249), May 2011, pp. 1326-1330
Guo-Qiang Li and Chao Zhang, “Creep effect on buckling of axially restrained steel columns in real fires”, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Vol. 71, pp 182-188, April 2012,
Chao Zhang, Guo-Qiang Li and Yong-Chang Wang, “Predictability of buckling temperature of axially loaded steel columns in fire”, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Vol. 75, pp 32-37, August 2012
Chao Zhang, Wieslaw K. Binienda, Frank E. Norvat, and Wenzhi Wang, “Application of numerical methods for crashworthiness investigation of a large aircraft wing impact with a tree”, Mathematical and Computational Forestry and Natural-Resources Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp 71-85, 2013

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