Dr. Yingyan Zhang
Details
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College: School of Engineering
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Department: School of Engineering
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Campus: Bundoora East Australia
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yingyan.zhang@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0001-5996-5438
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Prof. Yingyan Zhang joined Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, School of Engineering RMIT University in Nov 2019.
Prof. Zhang expertise at solid mechanics, computational mechanics and computational materials. Her research areas include 2D nanomaterials, polymer composites, nano/micro-mechanics, heat conduction, and structural stability.
As of May 2024, Prof. Zhang has published 1 scholarly book, 4 book chapters and >125 journal papers with > 8000 citations. Her h-index is 48. The complete publication list can be found at Google Scholar.
Prof. Zhang was awarded research lectureship from Western Sydney University (AU$90, 000) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Fund) in 2010. She has been awarded three national projects from Australia Research Council (2019-now).
Currently Prof. Zhang is an Editor of Thin-Walled Structures (JCR Q1), Session Editor of Current Mechanics and Advanced Materials, and the editorial board member of Computational Materials Science, Materials and Advanced Nanocomposites.
Research fields
- 400711 Simulation, modelling, and programming of mechatronics systems
- 401602 Composite and hybrid materials
- 401706 Numerical modelling and mechanical characterisation
Supervisor projects
- Multiscale modelling of high-performance mechanical metallic metamaterial composites for aerospace applications
- 27 Nov 2024
- Mechanical and Electrical properties of intrinsic self-sensing concrete reinforced by carbon fillers
- 11 Nov 2024
- Polymer-based thermal interface materials reinforced by hexagonal boron nitride
- 10 Sep 2024
Opto-electro-thermo-mechanical responses of perovskite-based photoelectric devices
- 14 Aug 2024
- Multiscale modelling of high-performance mechanical metamaterial composite structures
- 1 Jul 2024
- Development of a composite structure of nanogenerator mechanical metamaterial concrete
- 14 Nov 2023
- Opto-electro-thermo-mechanical behaviors of perovskites in multi-physics field
- 22 Dec 2022
- Modelling of high-entropy alloys
- 15 Nov 2022
- Damage monitoring and assessment of very large floating structures
- 10 Mar 2022
- Impact- resistant graphene ultra- high- molecular- weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) nanocomposites
- 25 Oct 2021
- Thermo-electro-mechanical response of graphene based elastomeric soft nanocomposites
- 22 Apr 2021
- Mechanical properties of polymer composites reinforced by carbon fillers
- 18 Sep 2020
- Numerical Investigation of Graphene-Aluminum Nanocomposite
- 4 May 2020
- Mechanical Behaviours of Functionally Graded Graphene Reinforced Composite Beams with Open Edge Cracks
- 9 Jan 2020
- Research on Fabrication and Mechanical Behaviour of Functionally Graded Graphene Platelets/Epoxy Nanocomposites
- 7 Jan 2020
Teaching interests
Supervisor interest areas:
- Advanced polymer composite
- Structural dynamics and stability
- Nanomechanics
- Computational mechanics and materials
- Heat conduction
Supervisor projects:
- Graphene origami/kirigami enabled metamaterials
- Heat conduction of graphene/h-BN heterostructures and their polymer composites
- Impact resistance of graphene-polymer composites
Undergraduate teaching:
- Finite Element Analysis
- Mechanical Vibration
- Mechanics of Materials
- Fundamentals of Mechanics
- Structural Analysis
Research interests
2D nanomaterials, polymer composites, nano/micro-mechanics, heat conduction, structural stability.
