Research Interests
(1) Mechanics of electromagnetic materials and microelectronics devices;
(2) Mechanics of advanced materials and lightweight lattice composite materials.
(3) Micromechanics and physics-based continuum models across length scales;
Education and Professional Preparation
Nanjing Chemical University, Mechanical Engineering, B.S., 1982
Nanjing Chemical University, Mechanical Engineering, M.S., 1986
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Aerospace Engineering, Ph.D., 1993
Tel-Aviv c Solid Mechanics and Materials Structures, postdoctoral, 1993-1994
Maryland University, Mechanical Engineering, Research associate,1994-1995
Appointments
2009– Chair Professor, College of Engineering, Peking University
1995–2009 Chair Professor, School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University, China
2006 Visiting Professor, Cambridge University, UK.
2001 Visiting Professor, Purdue University, USA.
2000,1999 Visiting Professor, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
1994 Visiting Scholar,Maryland University, U.S.A.
1986–1989 Lecture, Mech. Eng. Department, Nanjing Chemical University, China
Professional Affiliations
Vice President of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Society of China (2006-2010)
Vice Chairman of Asia-Pacific Society of Mechanics of Materials (2007- )
Chairman of Testing-Machine committee of Chinese Society of Instrument (2007- )
Head of Solid Mechanics Committee in China (2011- )
Vice Head of Composite Mechanics Committee in China (2004- )
Vice Head of Experiment Mechanics Committee in China (203- 2007)
Standing Council Member of the Chinese Society of Composite Materials (2004- )
Head of Failure Mechanics Key Lab of Education Ministry of China.(2002-2010)
Vice Chairman of Academic Committee for “Strength and Vibration of Machine” Key Lab of Education Ministry of China.(2008- )
Member of Academic Committee for “Structure Analysis of Industry Equipment” State Key Lab of China.(2006- )
Member of Academic Committee for “Applied Technology of Low-dimensional Materials” Key Lab of Education Ministry of China.(2008-)
Member of Academic Committee for Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University (1999- )
Head of "Applied Mechanics" Key Lab of Ministry of Education of China.(2008-2010)
Vice Dean of College of Engineering, Peking University (2009- )
Awards
Award by Ministry of Petroleum and Chemical Engineering (2nd Prize), 1989.
Award of Trans-century Youth Talent by State Education Commission, 1997.
Award of National Outstanding Youth Scientist by National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2000.
Award of “Mei Yi-Qi” Excellent Best Paper by Tsinghua University, 2000
Best Paper award by Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2000
Science and Technology Award (1st Prize) by Ministry of Education of China, 2002
“Chang-Jiang” Chair Professor Award by Ministry of Education of China, 2002
National Natural Science Prize (2nd), 2005
Science and Technology Award (1st Prize) by Ministry of Education of China, 2007
Natural Science Award (1st Prize) by Ministry of Education of China, 2008
National Natural Science Prize (2nd), 2010
Editorial for Academic Journals
Associate Editor, 2011-, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics
Associate Editor, 2008-, Experimental Mechanics
Associate Editor, 2011-, International Journal of Aerospace Lightweight Structures
Managing Editor, 2004-, International Journal of Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
Member of Editorial Board, 2008-, Journal of Mechanics and MEMS
Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Applied Mechanics
Vice Chief-Editor, 2007 -, Acta Mechanica Sinica
Vice Chief-Editor, 2007-, Chinese Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Vice Chief-Editor, 2007 -, Chinese Journal of Computational Mechanics
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, 2006 -, Experimental Technology and Testing Machine (Chinese Journal)
Acting Editor, 2004 - , Advances in Mechanics (Chinese Journal)
Member of Editorial Board,, 2003 - , Engineering Mechanics (Chinese Journal)
Member of Editorial Board,, 2004 - , Journal of Mechanical Strength (Chinese Journal)
Member of Editorial Board since 1997-, Applied and fundamental Science and Engineering (Chinese Journal)
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, 1999-2002, Acta Experimental Mechanics Sinica (Chinese Journal)
Member of Editorial Board,, 2004 - 2008, Acta Materiae Compositae Sinica (Chinese Journal)
Referee and reviewer for more than 30 international journals:
Composites Science & Technology; Composites Part B, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering; Computational Materials Science; Engineering Fracture Mechanics; European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids; Experimental Mechanics; Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures; International Journal of Applied Mechanics; International Journal of Fracture; International Journal of Mechanical Science; International Journal of Nonlinear Science and Numerical simulations; International Journal of Solids and Structures; Journal of Alloys and Compounds; Journal of America Ceramics Society; Journal of Applied Physics; Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures; Journal of Materials Science; Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Science; Journal of Mechanics and MEMS; Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures; Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids; Journal of Sound and Vibration; Materials Letters; Mechanics of Materials; Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A; Nano Letters; Philosophica Magazine; Physica A;Research Letters in Physics; Scripta Materialia; Structural Engineering and Mechanics; Sensors & Actuators: A. PhysicalThe Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
List of 12 significant publications
I.Two Books
[1]Fang Daining and Liu Jinxi, Fracture Mechanics of Piezoelectric and Ferroelectric Solids, In Chinese, Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2008; In English, Berlin: Springer, 2010
[2]Fang Daining, Zhang Yihui and Cui Xiaodong, Mechanics and Multifunctional Design of Light-weight Lattice Materials, In Chinese, Beijing: Science Press, 2009
II.Ten Journal Papers:
*?Corresponding author
[3]Zhang YH, Li JY, *Fang D N. Oxygen-vacancy-induced memory effect and large recoverable strain in barium titanate single crystal. Physical Review B, 2010, 82: 064103.
[4]Tang W; *Fang D N; Li J Y. Two-scale Micromechanics-based Probabilistic Modeling of domain Switching in Ferroelectric Ceramics, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2009, 57(10), 1683-1701.
[5]Zhang Y H, Hong J W, Liu B, *Fang D N. Molecular Dynamics Investigations on Size-dependant Ferroelectric Behavior of BaTiO3 Nanowires. Nanotechnology, 2009, 20(40), 405703
[6]Zhang Y H, Xue Z Y, Chen L M, *Fang D N. Deformation and Collapse Mechanisms of Lattice Cylindrical Shells under Axial Loading. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2009, 51: 213-221.
[7]*Fang D N.?Wan Y. P.?Feng X., Soh A K. Deformation and Fracture of Functional Ferromagnetics, Transactions of the ASME, Applied Mechanics Reviews, MARCH 2008, Vol. 61 / 020803-1-23
[8]Sun Y. X.. and *Fang D.N. Thermoelastic Damping in Micro-beam Resonators Inter. J. of Solids & Struc., 2006, 43: 3213–3229
[9]*Fang D.N, Zhang Zhen-Ke, Soh Ai Kah, Lee Kwok Lun, Fracture criteria of piezoelectric ceramics with defects?Mechanics of Materials, 2004, 36(10): 917-928.
[10]*Fang D.N.?Jiang Bing and Hwang Keh-Chih A model for predicting effective properties of piezocomposites with non-piezoelectric inclusions, J. of Elasticity, 2001, 62: 95-118.
[11]Fang D.N., Lu W., Inoue T. and Hwang Keh-Chih, Stress-strain relation of CuAlNi SMA single crystal under biaxial loading – constitutive model and experiments. Acta Mater., 1999, 47(1): 269-280.
[12]Fang D. and Berkovits A., Fatigue design model based on damage mechanisms revealed by AE measurement , Trans. ASME, Journal of Eng. Materials and Technology, V.117, 1995, 117:200-208.
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