Associate Professor Richard Yang

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR - SMART STRUCTURES,
Engineering and Construction Management

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Qualifications

PhD University of Hong Kong
MEng Tianjin University
BEng Harbin University of Engineering

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

Engineering and Construction Management

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Email:	R.Yang@uws.edu.au
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Location:	XB.2.34 Penrith (Kingswood)
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Biography

A/Prof Richard (Chunhui) Yang joined the School of Computing, Engineering and Matematics in January 2012 as Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Smart Structures. Prior to this, Richard was holding the position of Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, the School of Engineering, Deakin University (Deakin). Prior to his almost six-year working in Deakin University, he also have worked for a couple of years each in the University of Sydney (USyd) and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) as post-doc research fellow after he finished his PhD in Mechanical Engineeering in the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2002. He was awarded the Graduate Certificate for Higher Education by Deakin University in 2008. In research, he has been mainly working in computational mechanics about 15 years with mainly focusing on characterization of material properties and behaviours via numercial modelling and simulations, including multi-scale modelling of advanced engineering materials and structures, structural health monitoring (SHM) and smart structures, metal forming and manufacturing and metal surface treatment, etc. He has been awarded 2 ARC Linkage grants in roll forming of metal sheets, 1 ARC LIEF on Hybrid testing facility for structures under extreme loads with his colleagues as well as two competitive overseas research grants, including 1 Beijing Natural Science Foundation grant (BNSF) on roll forming and 1 National Science Foundation of China grant (NFSC) on bio-materials with his colleagues from China. In teaching, he has been mostly being involved in the Year-3/4 undergraduate and postgraduate subjects in Mechanical Engineering with bringing teaching innovations and modern technologies into class, i.e. Mechanics of Materials, Dynamics of Machines, Finite Element Analysis, Computer-Aided Engineering, Mechanical Design and Automated Manufacturing, etc. Up to 2012, he has published about 100 journal/conference papers and confidential reports for industrial partners in his research areas. As for external service, he is serving as assessor for ARC, editor board member, conference committee member, reviewers of international journals and conferences, and examiner for Master and PhD thesis, etc.

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Teaching

Previous Teaching Areas

300483 Engineering Project, 2012
300741 Industrial Experience (Engineering), 2012
300674 Engineering, Design and Construction Practice, 2012
300735 Automated Manufacturing, 2012
300600 Mechatronic System Design, 2012

Publications

Chapters in Books

Yang, C. and Zhang, Y. (2011), 'Special Finite Element-based Unit Cell Approaches for Heterogeneous Materials', Advances in Engineering Mechanics, Nova Science 978-1-60876-901-8..
Zhang, Y. and Yang, C. (2011), 'Shear-flexible Quadrilateral Composite Plate Elements Based on Timoshenko's Composite Beam Function Method', Advances in Engineering Mechanics, Nova Science 978-1-60876-901-8.

Journal Articles

Ma, L., Yang, Q. and Yang, C. (2011), 'The Configuration Evolution and Macroscopic Elasticity of Fluid-filled Closed Cell Composites: Micromechanics and Multiscale Homogenization Modelling', Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 28.
Kaynak, A. and Yang, C. (2011), 'Electrochemical fabrication and modelling of mechanical behavior of a tri-layer polymer actuator', Materials Chemistry and Physics, 5.
Jennings, M., Blanchonette, I., Lucas, S., Morgan, S., Helmer, R. and Yang, C. (2010), 'Instrumentation of a Field Hockey Stick to Detect Stick and Ball Interaction during a Drag Flick', Procedia Engineering, 6.
Wang, J., Hodgson, P., Zhang, J., Yan, W. and Yang, C. (2010), 'Effects of pores on shear bands in metallic glasses: A molecular dynamics study', Computational Materials Science, 7.
Ma, L., Rolfe, B., Yang, Q. and Yang, C. (2010), 'A new solution method for homogenization of effective properties of electromagnetic honeycombs', Key Engineering Materials, 6.
Ma, L., Rolfe, B., Yang, Q. and Yang, C. (2010), 'On the effective mechanical properties of fluid-saturated composites: A homogenization approach', Materials Science Forum, 4.
supasuthakul, J., Weiss, M., Hodgson, P. and Yang, C. (2010), 'Analytical Solutions and Finite Element Modelling of Deep Drawing Process for Cylindrical Metal Cups', Key Engineering Materials, 6.
An, Y., Yang, C., Hodgson, P. and Wen, C. (2010), 'Effect of pore size on mechanical properties of titanium foams', Materials Science Forum, 4.
Kaynak, A., Yang, C. and Kouzani, A. (2010), 'Synthesis, characterization and analytical modelling of mechanical behavior of a conducting polymer actuator', Materials Science Forum, 4.
Madej, L., Rauch, L. and Yang, C. (2009), 'Strain Distribution Analysis Based On The Digital Material Representation', Archives of Metallurgy and Materials, 10.
Asgari, A., Yang, C., Hodgson, P. and Rolfe, B. (2009), 'Modeling of Advanced High Strength Steels with the Realistic Microstructure-Strength Relationships', Computational Materials Science, 7.
Wang, J., Hodgson, P., Zhang, J., Yan, W. and Yang, C. (2009), 'Effects of Quenching Rate on Amorphous Structures of Cu46Zr54 Metallic Glass', Journal of Material Processing Technology, 6.
Zhang, Y. and Yang, C. (2009), 'Recent Developments in Finite Element Analysis for Laminated Composite Plates', Composite Structures, 11.
Yang, C., Hodgson, P., Liu, Q. and Ye, L. (2008), 'Geometrical Effect on Residual Stresses in 7050-T7451 Aluminum Alloy Rods Subject to Laser Shock Peening', Journal of Material Processing Technology, 7.
Zhang, Y. and Yang, C. (2008), 'Recent Advances of Finite Elements for Laminated Composite Plates', Recent Patents on Engineering, 11.
Asgari, S., Rolfe, B., Lemiale, V., Sunter, P. and Yang, C. (2008), 'Multiscale particle-in-cell modeling of Advanced High Strength Steels', Advanced Materials Research, 4.
Yang, C., Sabirov, I., Mullins, J. and Hodgson, P. (2008), 'Analytic Prediction of Structural Stress-strain Relations of Microstructured Metal', Advanced Materials Research, 4.
Wang, J., Hodgson, P., Zhang, J. and Yang, C. (2008), 'Residual Thermal Stresses in a Fe3Al/Al2O3 Gradient Coating System', Advanced Materials Research, 4.
Zhang, Y. and Yang, C. (2008), 'Laminated Plate Elements Based on Higher-order Shear Deformation Theories', Advanced Materials Research, 6.
Lu, Y., Ye, L., Su, Z. and Yang, C. (2008), 'Quantitative Crack Assessment Based on Lamb Wave Scattering in Aluminium Plates', NDT and E Journal, 10.
Liu, Q., Yang, C., Ding, K., Ye, L., Barter, S. and Sharp, P. (2007), 'The Effect of Laser Power Density on the Fatigue Life of Laser Shock Peened 7050 Aluminium Alloy', Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, 15.
Yang, C., Sabirov, I., Mullins, J., Yazipour, N., Asgari, S. and Hodgson, P. (2007), 'Structure-properties relations of metallic materials with multiscale microstructures', Materials Forum (CD-ROM), 9.
Yang, C., Hodgson, P., Liu, Q. and Ye, L. (2007), 'Three-dimensional Finite Element modeling of Laser Shock Peening Process', Materials Science Forum, 4.
Su, Z., Yang, C., Pan, N., Ye, L. and Zhou, L. (2007), 'Assessment of delamination in composite beams using shear horizontal (SH) Lamb mode', Composites Science and Technology, 8.
Yang, C., Su, Z., Ye, L. and Bannister, M. (2007), 'Propagation Characteristics of Lamb Waves in Stringer-stiffened Panels', Key Engineering Materials, 4.
Yang, C., Su, Z., Ye, L., Zhou, L. and Hodgson, P. (2007), 'A Signal Processing Approach for Elastic Wave-based Structural Health Monitoring Using Active Piezoelectrics', Key Engineering Materials, 4.
Ye, L., Su, Z., Yang, C. and He, Z. (2006), 'Hierarchical development of training database for artificial neural network-based quantitative damage identification', Composite Structures, 10.
Zhang, Y. and Yang, C. (2006), 'Some aspects of numerical simulation of Lamb wave propagation in composite structures', Composite Structures, 9.
Zhang, Y. and Yang, C. (2006), 'A family of simple and robust finite elements for linear and geometrically nonlinear analysis of laminated composite plates', Composite Structures, 8.
Yang, C., Zhang, Y. and Huh, H. (2006), 'Hybrid special finite element method for bi-material crack', Key Engineering Materials, 8.
Yang, C., Huh, H. and Hahn, H. (2005), 'Investigation of effective material properties of composite materials with internal defect or reinforcement particles', International Journal of Solids & Structures, 25.

Conference Papers

Supasuthakul, J., Hodgson, P. and Yang, C. (2011), 'Analytic Study on Pure Bending of Metal Sheets', the 8th International Conference and Workshop on Numerical Simulation of 3D Sheet Metal Forming Processes (NUMISHEET 2011), Seoul, Korea.
Weiss, M., Rolfe, B., Yang, C., de Sousa, T. and Hodgson, P. (2011), 'Review of Approximate Analyses of Sheet Forming Processes', 8th International Conference and Workshop on Numerical Simulation of 3D Sheet Metal Forming Processes (NUMISHEET 2011), Seoul, Korea.
Wang, X., Yang, C. and Rolfe, B. (2010), 'Numerical Simulations on Warm Forming of Stainless Steel with TRIP-Effect', 10th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Industrial Forming Processes (NUMIFORM 2010, Pohang, South Korea.
Kouzani, A., Ivankovic, M., Kaynak, A., Yang, C., Duan, W. and Hu, E. (2010), 'Design and construction of a micropump for drug delivery applications', 2010 International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, Gold Coast, Australia.
Weiss, M., Ryan, W., Rolfe, B. and Yang, C. (2010), 'The effect of skin passing on the material behaviour of metal strip in pure bending and tension', 10th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Industrial Forming Processes (NUMIFORM 2010), Pohang, South Korea.
Asgari, A., Yang, C., Hodgson, P. and Rolfe, B. (2008), 'Multiphase Material Modelling by Multiscale Particle-In-Cell Method', 4th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling (MMM-2008), Jeju, Korea.
Yang, C. and Zhang, C. (2008), 'Special Finite Element Method for Heterogeneous Materials', 4th International Conference on Advances in Structural Engineering and Mechanics (ASEM-08),, Jeju, Korea.
Zhang, C. and Yang, C. (2008), 'Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Steel-tied Reinforced Concrete Arch', 4th International Conference on Advances in Structural Engineering and Mechanics (ASEM-08), Jeju, Korea.
Yang, C. and Zhang, C. (2008), 'Study of Bi-material Cracks for Laminated Composites', 4th International Conference on Advances in Structural Engineering and Mechanics (ASEM-08), Jeju, Korea.
Yang, C. and Zhang, Y. (2008), 'Modelling of Laser beam Spot-weld using 2-D hybrid crack finite elements', Eighth Asia-Pacific Conference on Materials Processing (8TH APCMP), Guilin-Guangzhou, China.
Wang, J., Yang, C., Zhang, J., Yan, W. and Hodgson, P. (2008), 'Effects of Quenching Rate on Amorphous Structures of Cu46Zr54 Metallic Glass', Eighth Asia-Pacific Conference on Materials Processing (8TH APCMP), Guilin-Guangzhou, China.
Yang, C., Zhang, Y. and Rolfe, B. (2008), 'Special Finite Element-based Unit Cell Approach for the Prediction of Mechanical Properties of Foamed Titanium', 2nd International Conference on Heterogeneous Material Mechanics (ICHMM-2008), Huangshan, China.
Yang, C., Hodgson, P., Liu, Q. and Ye, L. (2008), 'Geometrical Effect on Residual Stresses in 7050-T7451 Aluminum Alloy Rods Subject to Laser Shock Peening', 10th International Conference on Advances in Materials and Processing Technology (AMPT 2007), Daejeon, Korea.
Yang, C., Ye, L. and Su, Z. (2005), 'Mechanistic models for PZT actuators/sensors of elastic wave propagation in plate-like structures', Australian Structural Engineering Conference (ASEC-2005), Newcastle, Australia.
Yang, C., Soh, A. and Li, X. (2004), 'Experimental and numerical analysis of the deformation process of small cracks', 18th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials (ACMSM 18), Perth, WA.
Zhang, Y., Kim, K. and Yang, C. (2004), 'A simple displacement-based quadrilateral laminated composite plate element:part I: Linear analysis', 18th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials (ACMSM 18), Perth WA.
Zhang, Y., Kim, K. and Yang, C. (2004), 'A simple displacement-based quadrilateral laminated composite plate element:part II: Geometrically nonlinear analysis', 18th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials (ACMSM 18), Perth, WA.

Research

A/Prof Yang has been mainly working in computational mechanics and its applications in mechanical engineering about 15 years with focusing on characterization of material properties and behaviours via numercial modelling and simulations, i.e., multi-scale modelling of advanced engineering materials and structures, structural health monitoring (SHM) and smart structures, metal forming and metal surface treatment, etc. He has been awarded 2 ARC Linkage grants in roll forming of metal sheets, 1 ARC LIEF on Hybrid testing facility for structures under extreme loads with his colleagues as well as two competitive overseas research grants, including 1 Beijing Natural Science Foundation grant (BNSF) on roll forming and 1 National Science Foundation of China grant (NFSC) on bio-materials with his colleagues from China.

Areas of Research and Expertise:

Multi-scale Modelling and Simulations of Advanced Engingeering Materials and Structures
Engineering Numercial Methods and their Applications
Digital Representation, Fabrication and Characterization of Materials
Elastic Wave-based in-situ Structral Health Monitoring System and Smart Structures
Metal Forming
Metal Surface Treatment and Coating
Nano-composites
Metal Foams
Conductive Polymers