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Department of Mechanical Engineering and Product Design Engineering
Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Biography:
Prof. Dong Ruan’s research interests are: (1) characterization of the mechanical properties of various materials at high strain rates; (2) evaluation of the mechanical response of structures (such as multi-layered panels and tubes) under dynamic loadings; (3) addictive manufacturing. She has published over 200 academic papers in top international journals and prestigious international conferences. Ruan has secured over $4 million research grants from Australian Research Council (ARC), Defence Materials and Technology Centre (DMTC), Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Automotive Technology (AutoCRC), CAST CRC and Rail Manufacturing CRC, among others. Ruan has supervised more than 20 PhD students. Some of her recent projects include:
• Mechanical properties of auxetic materials/structures fabricated by 3D printing techniques
• Dynamic properties of metamaterials produced by addictive manufacturing (Multi Jet Fusion and Fused Deposition Modeling)
• Evaluation of hybrid structures for impact performance in rail applications
• Characterisation of sandwich panels subjected to impact loading
• Development and characterisation of lightweight tubular structures for automotive industry
• Crashworthiness of composite tubes
• Adiabatic shear band in metals
Ruan has been the Vice-secretary of International Society of Impact Engineering (the peak body in impact engineering) since 2016. She is also a member of Australian Chapter of International Association of Protective Structures (AU-IAPS). She has been reviewer for many leading international journals. Ruan received the 2013 Eureka Prize as a team member of DMTC's Armour Applications Program in the Safeguarding Australia category.
Selected Publications:
D. Ruan, Guoxing Lu, F.L. Chen and Elias Siores, “Compressive behaviour of aluminium foams at low and medium strain rates”, Composite Structures, Vol. 57, Nos. 1-4, July 2002
D. Ruan, G. Lu, F.L. Chen, and E. Siores, Compressive behaviour of aluminium foams at low and medium strain rates, Compos. Struct. 57 (2002), pp. 331–336.
Ruan, D., Lu, G., Wang, B., and Yu, T. X., 2003, “In-Plane Dynamic Crushing
of Honeycombs - A Finite Element Study,” Int. J. Impact Eng., 28(2), pp.
161–182.
F. Zhu, G. Lu, D. Ruan, and D. Shu, “Tearing of metallic sandwich panels subjected to air shock loading,” Structural Engineering and Mechanics, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 351–370, 2009.
Feng Zhu, Guoxing Lu, Dong Ruan and Zhihua Wang, “Plastic deformation, failure and energy absorption of sandwich structures with metallic cellular cores”, International Journal of Protective Structures, Vol. 1, No. 4, 2010
J. Shen, G. Lu, and D. Ruan, “Compressive behaviour of closed-cell aluminium foams at high strain rates,” Composites Part B: Engineering, vol. 41, no. 8, pp. 678–685, 2010.
Shanqing Xu, John H. Beynon, Dong Ruan and Guoxing Lu, “Experimental study of the out-of-plane dynamic compresson of hexagonal honeycombs”, Composite Structures, Vol. 94, No. 8, pp 2326-2336, July 2012
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