STAFF PROFILE
Distinguished Professor Mike Xie
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
School of Engineering Cluster
School / Department:
Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
Phone:
+61 3 9925 3655
Email:
mike.xie@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Bundoora Campus
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Research supervision
Yi-Min (Mike) Xie is RMIT Distinguished Professor, Director of Centre for Innovative Structures and Materials, and Fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
Employment history
- Jan 2016 - present, RMIT Distinguished Professor and Interim Director of Advanced Materials Enabling Capability Platform Director, RMIT University, Australia
- Jul 2012 - present, Director, Centre for Innovative Structures and Materials, RMIT University, Australia
- Apr 2012 – Dec 2015, Professor and Deputy Head (Research & Innovation), School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, Australia
- Jul 2002 - Apr 2012, Professor and Discipline Head of Civil Engineering, School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, Australia
- Jan 1998 – Dec 2001, Associate Professor, School of the Built Environment, Victoria University, Australia
- Jul 1995 - Dec 1997, Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Victoria University, Australia
- May 1993 - Jun 1995, Lecturer, Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Victoria University, Australia
- Feb 1992 - May 1993, Research Fellow of Department of Aeronautical Engineering and Manager of Finite Element Analysis Research Centre, University of Sydney, Australia
- Oct 1990 - Oct 1991, Senior Research Assistant to Professor O.C. Zienkiewicz, F.R.S., Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales, Swansea, UK
- Design and manufacture innovative structures and materials
- Structural optimization
- Computational mechanics
- Microstructural design of materials
- PhD (Civil Engineering), 1991, University of Wales, Swansea, United Kingdom
- BEng (Engineering Mechanics), 1984, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Professional memberships
- Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
- Fellow, Institution of Engineers Australia
Industry collaboration
- Have been retained as a specialist consultant to various companies including Boeing, Sinclair Knight Merz, Bovis Lend Lease and so on.
Professional service
- Chairman of Organising Committee for the Australasian Conference on Applied Mechanics, Melbourne, 2005
- Chairman of Organising Committee for the 4th International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, Melbourne, 2007
- Subject Editor, Applied Mathematical Modelling journal (Elsevier), 2012 – 2015
- Yang, K.,Xu, S.,Zhou, S.,Xie, Y. (2018). Multi-objective optimization of multi-cell tubes with origami patterns for energy absorption In: Thin-Walled Structures, 123, 100 - 113
- Ren, X.,Shen, J.,Tran, P.,Ngo, T.,Xie, M. (2018). Design and characterisation of a tuneable 3D buckling-induced auxetic metamaterial In: Materials and Design, 139, 336 - 342
- Cai, K.,Wang, L.,Xie, M. (2018). Buckling behavior of nanotubes from diamondene In: Materials and Design, 149, 34 - 42
- Long, K.,Yuan, P.,Xu, S.,Xie, M. (2018). Concurrent topological design of composite structures and materials containing multiple phases of distinct Poisson�s ratios In: Engineering Optimization, 50, 599 - 614
- Liu, J.,Wen, G.,Qing, Q.,Li, F.,Xie, M. (2018). Robust topology optimization for continuum structures with random loads In: Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales), 35, 710 - 732
- Rezaee Javan, A.,Seifi, H.,Xu, S.,Ruan, D.,Xie, Y. (2017). The impact behaviour of plate-like assemblies made of new interlocking bricks: An experimental study In: Materials and Design, 134, 361 - 373
- Ren, X.,Shen, J.,Tran, P.,Ngo, T.,Xie, Y. (2017). Auxetic nail: Design and experimental study In: Composite Structures, 184, 288 - 298
- Zhao, Z.,Zhou, S.,Xu, S.,Feng, X.,Xie, Y. (2017). High-speed spinning disks on flexible threads In: Scientific Reports, 7, 1 - 11
- Ding, C.,Seifi, H.,Dong, S.,Xie, Y. (2017). A new node-shifting method for shape optimization of reticulated spatial structures In: Engineering Structures, 152, 727 - 735
- Seifi, H.,Rezaee Javan, A.,Xu, S.,Zhao, Y.,Xie, M. (2017). Design Optimization and Additive Manufacturing of Nodes in Gridshell Structures In: Engineering Structures, 160, 161 - 170
- Lightweight IP Cockpit System. Funded by: Ford Motor Company - Grant 2018 from (2018 to 2021)
- Design Robotics for Mass Customisation Manufacturing (Administered by Queensland University of Technology). Funded by: Innovative Manufacturing CRC from (2017 to 2022)
- Structural Optimisation of Facades and Structures (AMSI Internship INT-365). Funded by: Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute Contract from (2017 to 2018)
- 3D Concrete Printing Facility for Automated Construction Research - led by Swinburne University of Technology. Funded by: ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Grant 2017 from (2017 to 2017)
- Design of Novel Metamaterials Considering Large Deformation and Plasticity. Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects 2016 from (2016 to 2018)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
15 PhD Completions and 8 Masters by Research Completions7 PhD Current Supervisions
Structural design and optimisation; Computational mechanics; Mechanical metamaterials; Additive manufacturing; Biomaterials and medical devices