Professor Yang Xiang

Professor Yang Xiang

PROFESSOR,
Deans Unit School of Computing, Engineering & Math

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD University of Queensland
  • MEng Chongqing Institute of Architecture & Engineering
  • BEng Chongqing Institute of Architecture & Engineering

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Deans Unit School of Computing, Engineering & Math

Professional Memberships

  • Member IEAust (2000-01-03)

Contact

Email:Y.Xiang@uws.edu.au
Extension:2395
Mobile:0406319831
Location:XB.3.39
Penrith (Kingswood)
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Biography

Yang obtained his Bachelor and Master degrees from Chongqing Institute of Architecture and Engineering in China, in 1982 and 1985 respectively. He studied at The University of Queensland in 1989 and was awarded a PhD degree in 1993. He joined UWS as a Lecturer in 1996 and contributed to the course development and coordination of the Civil Engineering program. He was promoted to Professor in 2008. Yang is a member of Engineers Australia (IEAust) and a member of American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE). He is also a member of the Stability Committee, Engineering Mechanics Division, ASCE since 2004. He serves on the Editorial Boards of International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics (IJSSD) and The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design.

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Publications

Chapters in Books

  • Uy, B., Zhu, X., Xiang, Y., Zou, J., Liyanapathirana, R., Gunawardana, U., Pap, L. and Perera, H. (2011), 'Civionics--An emerging interdisciplinary research area in Australia', Structural Health Monitoring in Australia, Nova Science Publishers 9781617288609.

Journal Articles

  • Xiang, Y. (2013), 'Postbuckling of nanotube-reinforced composite cylindrical shells under combined axial and radial mechanical loads in thermal environment', Composites. Part B, Engineering, 12.
  • Lai, S. and Xiang, Y. (2012), 'Buckling and Vibration of Elastically Restrained Standing Vertical Plates', Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, 1.
  • Shen, H. and Xiang, Y. (2012), 'Nonlinear vibration of nanotube-reinforced composite cylindrical shells in thermal environments', Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 10.
  • Zhang, Y., Cheng, Y., Pei, Q., Wang, C., Xiang, Y. and Xiang, Y. (2012), 'Thermal conductivity of defective graphene', Physics Letters A, 5.
  • Lai, S. and Xiang, Y. (2012), 'Buckling and vibration of elastically restrained standing vertical plates', Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, 6.
  • Shen, H. and Xiang, Y. (2012), 'Nonlinear vibration of nanotube-reinforced composite cylindrical shells in thermal environments', Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 10.
  • Zhang, Y., Cheng, Y., Pei, Q., Wang, C. and Xiang, Y. (2012), 'Thermal conductivity of defective graphene', Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics, 5.
  • Lai, S., Harrington, J., Xiang, Y. and Chow, K. (2012), 'Accurate analytical perturbation approach for large amplitude vibration of functionally graded beams', International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 8.
  • Wang, C., Xiang, Y., Yang, J. and Kitipornchai, S. (2012), 'Buckling of nano-rings/arches based on nonlocal elasticity', International Journal of Applied Mechanics, 13.
  • Silvestre, N., Wang, C., Zhang, Y. and Xiang, Y. (2011), 'Sanders shell model for buckling of single-walled carbon nanotubes with small aspect ratio', Composite Structures, 9.
  • Zhang, Y., Wang, C. and Xiang, Y. (2011), 'Bending behavior of double-walled carbon nanotubes with sp3 interwall bonds', Journal of Applied Physics, .
  • Lai, S., Zhou, L., Zhang, Y. and Xiang, Y. (2011), 'Application of the DSC-Element method to flexural vibration of skew plates with continuous and discontinuous boundaries', Thin-Walled Structures, 11.
  • Zhang, Y., Wang, C., Cheng, Y. and Xiang, Y. (2011), 'Mechanical Properties of Bilayer Graphene Coupled by sp3 Bonding', Carbon, 7.
  • Sarker, L., Xiang, Y., Uy, B. and Zhu, X. (2011), 'Damage detection of circular cylindrical shells by Ritz Method', Journal of Physics, .
  • Yang, Q., Lim, C. and Xiang, Y. (2011), 'Nonlinear Thermal Bending For Shear Deformable Nanobeams Based On Nonlocal Elasticity Theory', International Journal of Aerospace and Lightweight Structures, 19.
  • Qian, Y., Lai, S., Zhang, W. and Xiang, Y. (2011), 'Study on asymptotic analytical solutions using HAM for strongly nonlinear vibrations of a restrained cantilever beam with an intermediate lumped mass', Numerical Algorithms, 22.
  • Xiang, Y., Lai, S. and Zhou, L. (2010), 'DSC-element method for free vibration analysis of rectangular Mindlin plates', International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 13.
  • He, X., Kitipornchai, S., Wang, C., Xiang, Y. and Zhou, Q. (2010), 'A Nonlinear Van Der Waals Force Model for Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Modeled by a Nested System of Cylindrical Shells', Journal of Applied Mechanics, 1.
  • Lai, S. and Xiang, Y. (2010), 'Application of a generalized Senator-Bapat perturbation technique to nonlinear dynamical systems with an irrational restoring force', Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 9.
  • Zhang, Y., Wang, C. and Xiang, Y. (2010), 'A molecular dynamics investigation of the torsional responses of defective single-walled carbon nanotubes', Carbon, 9.
  • Xiang, Y., Wang, C., Kitipornchai, S. and Wang, Q. (2010), 'Dynamic Instability of Nanorods/Nanotubes Subjected to an End Follower Force', Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 5.
  • Wang, C., Zhang, Y., Xiang, Y. and Reddy, J. (2010), 'Recent Studies on Buckling of Carbon Nanotubes', Applied Mechanics Reviews, 1.
  • Shen, H., Zhang, C. and Xiang, Y. (2010), 'Nonlocal shear deformable shell model for thermal postbuckling of axially compressed double-walled carbon nanotubes', Philosophical Magazine, 26.
  • Wu, W., Shu, C., Wang, C. and Xiang, Y. (2010), 'Free vibration and buckling analysis of highly skewed plates by least squares-based finite difference method', International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, 28.
  • Xiang, Y., Lai, S., Zhou, L. and Lim, C. (2010), 'DSC-Ritz element method for vibration analysis of rectangular Mindlin plates with mixed edge supports', European Journal of Mechanics A - Solids, 10.
  • Challamel, N. and Xiang, Y. (2010), 'On the influence of the unilateral damage behaviour in the stability of cracked beam/columns', Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 12.
  • Ke, L., Xiang, Y., Yang, J. and Kitipornchai, S. (2009), 'Nonlinear free vibration of embedded double-walled carbon nanotubes based on nonlocal Timoshenko beam theory', COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE, 9.
  • Lim, C., Lu, C., Xiang, Y. and Yao, W. (2009), 'On new symplectic elasticity approach for exact free vibration solutions of rectangular Kirchhoff plates', International Journal of Engineering Science, 10.
  • Ke, L., Yang, J., Kitipornchai, S. and Xiang, Y. (2009), 'Flexural vibration and elastic buckling of a cracked timoshenko beam made of functionally graded materials', Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, 15.
  • Lai, S. and Xiang, Y. (2009), 'DSC analysis for buckling and vibration of rectangular plates with elastically restrained edges and linearly varying in-plane loading', International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, 21.
  • Wang, C., Aung, T., Kitipornchai, S. and Xiang, Y. (2009), 'Plastic-buckling of rectangular plates under combined uniaxial and shear stresses', Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 4.
  • Yu, S., Xiang, Y. and Wei, G. (2009), 'Matched interface and boundary (MIB) method for the vibration analysis of plates', Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, 28.
  • Kitipornchai, S., Ke, L., Yang, J. and Xiang, Y. (2009), 'Nonlinear vibration of edge cracked functionally graded Timoshenko beams', Journal of Sound and Vibration, 21.
  • Zhang, Y., Xiang, Y. and Wang, C. (2009), 'Buckling of defective carbon nanotubes', Journal of Applied Physics, .
  • Zhang, Y., Wang, C., Duan, W., Xiang, Y. and Zong, Z. (2009), 'Assessment of continuum mechanics models in predicting buckling strains of single-walled carbon nanotubes', Nanotechnology, .
  • Lai, S., Lim, C., Zhang, W. and Xiang, Y. (2009), 'On Asymptotic Analysis for Large Amplitude Nonlinear Free Vibration of Simply Supported Laminated Plates', Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, .
  • Xiang, Y., Ng, C., Zhao, Y. and Wei, G. (2009), 'On the Accuracy and Stability of a Variety of Differentail Quadrature Formulations for the Vibration Analysis of Beams', International Journal of Enginering and Applied Sciences, 25.
  • Wang, C., Xiang, Y. and Kitipornchai, S. (2009), 'Postbuckling Of Nano Rods/Tubes Based On Nonlocal Beam Theory', International Journal of Applied Mechanics, 8.
  • Yang, J., Chen, Y., Xiang, Y. and Jia, X. (2008), 'Free and forced vibration of cracked inhomogeneous beams under an axial force and a moving load', Journal of Sound and Vibration, 16.
  • Wang, Q., Varadan, V., Xiang, Y., Han, Q. and Wen, B. (2008), 'On instability of single-walled carbon nanotubes with a vacancy defect', International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, 10.
  • Shen, H. and Xiang, Y. (2008), 'Buckling and post buckling of anisotrophic laminated cylindrical shells under combined axial compression and torsion', Composite Structures, 12.
  • Lai, S., Xiang, Y., Lim, C., He, X. and Zeng, Q. (2008), 'Higher-order approximate solutions for nonlinear vibration of a constant-tension string', Journal of Sound and Vibration, 9.
  • Ma, Y., Wang, C., Ang, K. and Xiang, Y. (2008), 'Buckling of super ellipsoidal shells under uniform pressure', The IES Journal Part A: Civil & Structural Engineering, 8.
  • Xiang, Y., Kitipornchai, S. and Wang, C. (2008), 'Buckling and spanning capacity of cantilevered vertical plates under body forces', The IES Journal Part A: Civil & Structural Engineering, 7.
  • Zhang, L. and Xiang, Y. (2007), 'Exact solutions for vibration of stepped circular cylindrical shells', Journal of Sound and Vibration, 17.
  • Shen, H. and Xiang, Y. (2007), 'Postbuckling of pressure-loaded piezolaminated cylindrical shells with temperature dependent properties', International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, 22.
  • Wang, Q., Liew, K., He, X. and Xiang, Y. (2007), 'Local buckling of carbon nanotubes under bending', Applied Physics Letters, .
  • Zhang, L., Xiang, Y. and Wei, G. (2006), 'Local adaptive differential quadrature for free vibration analysis of cylindrical shells with various boundary conditions', International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 13.
  • Zhang, L. and Xiang, Y. (2006), 'Vibration of open cylindrical shells with stepped thickness variations', Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 5.
  • Zhang, L. and Xiang, Y. (2006), 'Vibration of open circular cylindrical shells with intermediate ring supports', International Journal of Solids and Structures, 18.
  • Shen, H. and Xiang, Y. (2006), 'Thermomechanical postbuckling of unilaterally constrained shear deformable laminated plates with temperature-dependent properties', International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 13.
  • Zhao, S., Wei, G. and Xiang, Y. (2005), 'DSC analysis of free-edged beams by an iteratively matched boundary method', JOURNAL OF SOUND AND VIBRATION, 7.
  • Cheng, Z., Reddy, J. and Xiang, Y. (2005), 'Buckling of a thin circular plate loaded by in-plane gravity', JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME, 3.
  • Xiang, Y., Wang, C., Lim, C. and Kitipornchai, S. (2005), 'Buckling of intermediate ring supported cylindrical shells under axial compression', THIN-WALLED STRUCTURES, 17.
  • Xiang, Y. and Zheng, L. (2005), 'Free vibration analysis of stepped circular Mindlin plates', JOURNAL OF SOUND AND VIBRATION, 23.
  • Hou, Y., Wei, G. and Xiang, Y. (2005), 'DSC-Ritz method for the free vibration analysis of Mindlin plates', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 27.
  • Xiang, Y. and Wei, G. (2004), 'Exact solutions for buckling and vibration of stepped rectangular Mindlin plates', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES, 16.
  • Wang, C., Chen, Y. and Xiang, Y. (2004), 'Stability criteria for rectangular plates subjected to intermediate and end inplane loads', THIN-WALLED STRUCTURES, 18.
  • Wang, C., Chen, Y. and Xiang, Y. (2004), 'Plastic buckling of rectangular plates subjected to intermediate and end inplane loads', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES, 19.
  • Wang, C., Xiang, Y., Watanabe, E. and Utsunomiya, T. (2004), 'Mode shapes and stress-resultants of circular Mindlin plates with free edges', Journal of Sound and Vibration, 15.
  • Xiang, Y. (2003), 'Vibration of rectangular Mindlin plates resting on non-homogenous elastic foundations', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL SCIENCES, 16.
  • Xiang, Y., Wang, C. and Kitipornchai, S. (2003), 'Exact buckling solutions for rectangular plates under intermediate and end uniaxial loads', JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MECHANICS-ASCE, 4.
  • Xiang, Y. and Reddy, J. (2003), 'Natural vibration of rectangular plates with an internal line hinge using the first order shear deformation plate theory', JOURNAL OF SOUND AND VIBRATION, 13.
  • Xiang, Y., Wang, C., Wang, C. and Su, G. (2003), 'Ritz buckling analysis of rectangular plates with internal hinge', JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MECHANICS-ASCE, 6.
  • Xiang, Y. (2003), 'Exact solutions for buckling of multispan rectangular plates', JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MECHANICS-ASCE, 7.
  • Xiang, Y. (2003), 'Vibration of circular Mindlin plates with concentric elastic ring supports', International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 21.
  • Xiang, Y., Lim, C. and Kitipornchai, S. (2003), 'Axisymmetric vibration of cylindrical shells with intermediate ring support', International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, 19.
  • Xiang, Y. (2002), 'Exact vibration solutions for circular Mindlin plates with multiple concentric ring supports', International Journal of Solids and Structures, 22.
  • Wei, G., Zhao, G. and Xiang, Y. (2002), 'A novel approach for the analysis of high-frequency vibrations', Journal of Sound and Vibration, 40.
  • Xiang, Y. and Wang, C. (2002), 'Exact buckling and vibration solutions for stepped rectangular plates', Journal of Sound and Vibration, 15.
  • Xiang, Y., Ma, Y., Kitipornchai, S., Lim, C. and Lau, C. (2002), 'Exact solutions for vibration of cylindrical shells with intermediate ring supports', International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 18.
  • Xiang, Y., Zhao, Y. and Wei, G. (2002), 'Levy solutions for vibration of multi-span rectangular plates', International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 24.
  • Wei, G., Zhao, Y. and Xiang, Y. (2002), 'Discrete singular convolution and its application to the analysis of plates with internal supports. Part 1: Theory and algorithm', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 34.
  • Xiang, Y., Zhao, Y. and Wei, G. (2002), 'Discrete singular convolution and its application to the analysis of plates with internal supports. Part 2: Applications', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 25.
  • Xiang, Y. and Wei, G. (2002), 'Exact solutions for vibration of multi-span rectangular Mindlin plates', JOURNAL OF VIBRATION AND ACOUSTICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME, 7.
  • Zhao, Y., Wei, G. and Xiang, Y. (2002), 'Discrete singular convolution for the prediction of high frequency vibration of plates', International Journal of Solids and Structures, 24.
  • Zhao, Y., Wei, G. and Xiang, Y. (2002), 'Plate vibration under irregular internal supports', International Journal of Solids and Structures, 23.
  • Xiang, Y. and Su, G. (2002), 'Buckling of rectangular plates with mixed edge supports', Structural Engineering and Mechanics, An International Journal, 16.
  • Xiang, Y. (2002), 'Buckling of triangular plates with elastic edge constraints', Acta Mechanica, 15.
  • Su, G. and Xiang, Y. (2002), 'A non-discrete approach for analysis of plates with multiple subdomains', Engineering Structures, 13.
  • Wang, C., Xiang, Y. and Wang, C. (2002), 'Buckling of standing vertical plates under body forces', International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, 11.
  • Wang, C., Xiang, Y. and Wang, Q. (2001), 'Axisymmetric buckling of Reddy circular plates on Pasternak foundation', Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 6.
  • Xiang, Y., Wang, C. and Wang, C. (2001), 'Buckling of rectangular plates with internal hinge', International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, 11.
  • Wang, C., Xiang, Y., Utsunomiya, T. and Watanabe, E. (2001), 'Evaluation of modal stress resultants in freely vibrating plates', International Journal of Solids and Structures, 34.
  • Xiang, Y., Wang, C., Utsunomiya, T. and Machimdamrong, C. (2001), 'Benchmark stress-resultant distributions for vibrating rectangular plates with two opposite edges free', Journal of Computational Structural Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 49-57, 2001., 9.
  • Wang, C., Xiang, Y. and Chakrabarty, J. (2001), 'Elastic/Plastic buckling of thick plates', International Journal of Solids and Structures, 24.
  • Wei, G., Zhao, Y. and Xiang, Y. (2001), 'The determination of natural frequencies', International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 16.
  • Xiang, Y. and Reddy, J. (2001), 'Buckling and vibration of stepped, symmetric cross-ply laminated rectangular plates', International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, 24.

Conference Papers

  • Lin, F. and Xiang, Y. (2012), 'Free vibration of functionally graded carbon nanotube reinforced composite beams based on the 3rd order beam theory', International Conference on Computational Methods, Gold Coast, Qld..
  • Xiang, Y. (2012), 'Dynamic stability of piezoelectric braided composite plates', IJSSD Symposium on Progress in Structural Stability and Dynamics, Nanjin, China.
  • Zhang, Y., Wang, C. and Xiang, Y. (2011), 'A Molecular Dynamics Invetigation Of The Torsional Responses Of Defective Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes', The 12th East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction (EASEC-12), Hong Kong.
  • Zhou, L. and Xiang, Y. (2011), 'Vibration Analysis of Mindlin Plates with Cracks by MLS Element Method', The 12th East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction (EASEC-12), Hong Kong.
  • Zhu, X. and Xiang, Y. (2010), 'Vibration analysis of undersea pipelines with arbitrary bedding conditions', The Eleventh International Symposium on Structural Engineering, Guangzhou, China.
  • Pap, L., Zou, J., Uy, B. and Xiang, Y. (2009), 'Sub-Pixel Edge Detection for Structural Health Monitoring', 4th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Yang, J., Kitipornchai, S., Xiang, Y. and Chen, H. (2009), 'Parametric instability of functionally graded Timoshenko beams with an open edge crack', The Second International Symposium on Computational Mechanics (ISCM II) in conjunction with The Twelfth International Conference on the Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science (EPMESC XII), Hong Kong and Macao.
  • Zhou, L. and Xiang, Y. (2009), 'Vibration analysis of plates by MLS-element method', The Second International Symposium on Computational Mechanics (ISCM II) in conjunction with The Twelfth International Conference on the Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science (EPMESC XII), Hong Kong and Macau.
  • Haoula, A., Zhang, Y. and Xiang, Y. (2009), 'Buckling of single-walled carbon nanotubes with two atom vacancies', The Sixth International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures in conjunction with IJSSD symposium on Progress in Structural Stability and Dynamics & IStructE Asia-Pacific Forum, Hong Kong.
  • Zhang, Y., Wang, C., Duan, W. and Xiang, Y. (2009), 'Examination of beam and cylindrical shell models for buckling analysis of carbon nanotubes', The Sixth International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures in conjunction with IJSSD symposium on Progress in Structural Stability and Dynamics & IStructE Asia-Pacific Forum, Hong Kong.
  • Xiang, Y., Lai, S., Zhou, L. and Lim, C. (2009), 'Vibration Analysis of Rectangular Mindlin Plates with Mixed Edge Supports', The Twelfth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing, Funchal, Portugal.
  • Lai, S. and Xiang, Y. (2008), 'Buckling and vibration of rectangular plates with elastic edge supports subjected to linearly varying in-plane loading', The 11th East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction (EASEC-11), Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Yang, J., Xiang, H. and Xiang, Y. (2007), 'Electromechanical bending of a graded piezoelectric actuator with shear deformation', 15th International Conference on Composites/Nano Engineering, Haikou, Hainan, China.
  • Xiang, Y., Yang, J. and Xiang, H. (2007), 'Forced harmonic response spectrum of functionally graded dental implants', 15th International Conference on Composites/Nano Engineering, Haikou, Hainan, China.
  • Liyanapathirana, R., Tortal, E., Gunawardana, U., Ilic, V. and Xiang, Y. (2006), 'Isotherm Distribution using Finite Element Model for Cryosurgical Optimisation', The XVth International Conference on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, ICMMB 2006, Furama Riverfront Hotel, Singapore.
  • Zheng, L. and Xiang, Y. (2005), 'Exact solutions for vibration of open cylindrical shells with intermediate ring supports', 18th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Perth, Australia.
  • Zheng, L. and Xiang, Y. (2004), 'Study on vibration of stepped circular cylindrical shells', The Sixth World Congress on Computational Mechanics in conjunction with the Second Asian-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, Beijing, China.
  • Xiang, Y. (2003), 'Buckling of folded plates based on the Mindlin plate theory', the Second International Conference on Structural Stability and Dynamics, Singapore.
  • Teles, R. and Xiang, Y. (2003), 'Optimization on vibration of rectangular plates against internal point supports', the Second International Conference on Structural Stability and Dynamics, Singapore.
  • Wang, C., Chen, Y. and Xiang, Y. (2003), 'Exact buckling solutions for simply supported, rectangular plates under intermediate and end uniaxial loads', the Second International Conference on Structural Stability and Dynamics, Singapore.
  • Wang, C. and Xiang, Y. (2003), 'On the computation of stress resultants for plates with free edges using the Ritz method', Ninth International Conference on Civil and Structural Engineering Computing, Egmond-aan-Zee, The Netherlands.
  • Watanabe, E., Utsunomiya, T., Wang, C. and Xiang, Y. (2003), 'Hydroelastic analysis of Pontoon-type circular VLFS', The Thirteenth (2003) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
  • Zhang, L. and Xiang, Y. (2003), 'Exact solutions for vibration of stepped circular Mindlin plates', International Conference on Advances in Strucutures (ASSCCA '03), Sydney.
  • Xiang, Y. (2002), 'Exact buckling solutions for folded plates', The 17th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Gold Coast, Queensland.
  • Xiang, Y., Wang, C. and Kitipornchai, S. (2002), 'Vibration of plates under the influence of selfweight', The 17th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Gold Coast, Queensland.
  • Xiang, Y. (2002), 'Exact solutions for buckling of multi-span rectangular plates', The Third Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics, Sydney.
  • Xiang, Y. (2002), 'Buckling of triangular plates with elastic edge supports', The Third Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics, Sydney.
  • Wei, G., Zhao, Y. and Xiang, Y. (2002), 'Discrete singular convolution for plate vibration analysis', the Second International Conference on Structural Stability and Dynamics, Singapore.
  • Wang, C. and Xiang, Y. (2002), 'An approach for determining Levy solutions for plates with abrupt changes in properties (Full paper was included in the Conference CD-ROM)', The Second International Conference on Advances in Structural Engineering and Mechanics, Busan, Korea.
  • Wang, C., Xiang, Y. and Wang, C. (2001), 'Buckling and vibration of plates with an internal line-hinge via Ritz method (Invited Paper). Proceedings of the First Asian-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, Sydney, pp. 1663-1672, Nov. 20-23, 2001.', The First Asian-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, Sydney.
  • Xiang, Y. and Su, G. (2001), 'Buckling and vibration of plates with discontinuous edge supports', The First Asian-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, Sydney.
  • Su, G. and Xiang, Y. (2001), 'A new domain decomposition technique for plate analysis', The First Asian-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, Sydney.
  • Wang, C., Wang, Y., Watanabe, E., Utsunomiya, T. and Xiang, Y. (2001), 'Obtaining accurate modal stress-resultants in freely vibrating plates that model VLFS', The Eleventh International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Stavanger, Norway.

Research

Current Projects

Title:Buckling and Vibration Analysis of Functionally Graded Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Composite Structures
Years:2012-11-13 - 2013-11-12
ID:P00021175
UWS Researchers:Yang Xiang
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney

Previous Projects

Title:On surface stress effect for micro and nano crystalline plates and its application for birmorph as a sensor/actuator
Years:2013-01-30 - 2013-07-30
ID:P00021373
UWS Researchers:Yang Xiang
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Buckling and vibrations of circular cylindrical shells with abrupt changes in properties
Years:2003-01-25 - 2004-01-24
ID:P0011730
UWS Researchers:Yang Xiang
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Development of Domain Decomposition techniques for Plate Analysis
Years:2002-01-01 - 2003-01-31
ID:P0011528
UWS Researchers:Yang Xiang
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Development of a Local Spectral Method for the Computations of Thin-Walled Structures
Years:2006-01-10 - 2010-07-30
ID:P0014669
UWS Researchers:Yang Xiang
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Optimal Designs for Buckling and Vibration of Thick Plate Structures with Internal Supports
Years:2000-07-01 - 2002-07-30
ID:P0012894
UWS Researchers:Yang Xiang
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Development of discrete singular convolution (DSC) algorithm for analysis of plate structures
Years:2004-02-16 - 2005-02-15
ID:P0011612
UWS Researchers:Yang Xiang
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Study on Buckling and Postbuckling of Anisotropic Thin Shells with Various Complications
Years:2006-11-24 - 2007-11-23
ID:P0015336
UWS Researchers:Yang Xiang
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Title:Study on the Mechanical Behaviour of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes subjected to Temperature Change and Existence of Structural Defects
Years:2008-12-18 - 2009-12-17
ID:P00016482
UWS Researchers:Yang Xiang
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:On Asymptotic Analysis for Large Amplitude Nonlinear Vibration of Laminated Piezoelectric/Functionally Graded Rectangular Plates
Years:2009-12-04 - 2010-12-03
ID:P00017757
UWS Researchers:Yang Xiang and Siu Lai
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:High Capacity Testing Machine for Prototype Structures
Years:2009-09-22 - 2010-09-21
ID:P00017351
UWS Researchers:Brian Uy, Yang Xiang, Fidelis Mashiri, Vivian Tam, Xinqun Zhu, Zhong Tao and Olivia Mirza
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Micro-nano sensors considering size effects and long range forces
Years:2011-06-29 - 2012-06-28
ID:P00020288
UWS Researchers:Yang Xiang
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:A graphic processing unit based advanced computational facility for particulate research [via UNSW - no funding to UWS]
Years:2012-04-26 - 2013-04-25
ID:P00020382
UWS Researchers:Brian Uy, Yang Xiang, Chin Leo, Haiping Zhu and Qinghua Zeng
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (non ACRG)
Title:Hybrid Testing Facility for Structures under Extreme Loads [via Swinburne Uni of Technology - no funding to UWS]
Years:2011-06-24 - 2012-06-23
ID:P00018994
UWS Researchers:Brian Uy and Yang Xiang
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (non ACRG)
Title:Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in construction- an organizational culture perspective
Years:2010-11-02 - 2011-11-01
ID:P00019263
UWS Researchers:Peter Wong and Yang Xiang
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title: Defective Carbon Nanotubes in Thermal Environments
Years:2010-11-02 - 2011-11-01
ID:P00019268
UWS Researchers:Yingyan Zhang and Yang Xiang
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney

Supervision

Professor Xiang is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects

Current Supervision

Title:Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks for Structural Health Monitoring of Submarine
Field of Research:
Title:Numerical Analysis on Vibration of Functionally Graded Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Composites.
Field of Research:
Title:Structural Engineering
Field of Research:

Previous Supervision

Title:A new development in domain decomposition techniques for analysis of plates with mixed edge supports
Field of Research:
Thesis:A NEW DEVELOPMENT IN DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION TECHNIQUES FOR ANALYSIS OF PLATES WITH MIXED EDGE SUPPORTS
Title:ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL DEVELOPMENT ON VIBRATION OF SHELLS
Field of Research:MECHANICAL AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY NEC
Thesis:ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL DEVELOPMENT ON VIBRATION OF SHELLS

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