Yingyan Zhang

Dr. Yingyan Zhang

Professor

Details

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. 

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