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Kamran Nikbin Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Professor Kamran Nikbin got his BSc (Eng.) from Queen Mary College in 1973 and PhD, DIC (Applied Mechanics) from Imperial College in 1977. He has worked at Imperial College, London, since 1979 and has held the Royal Academy/EDF research chair in Structural Integrity since 2006. He has over 250 published papers and acts as consultant for various projects winning a number of best paper prizes. His Research Interests and academic responsibilities have ranged from scientific research to teaching and tutoring. His aim has been to direct the high temperature Structural Integrity group’s research activities to achieve an overall goal of developing predictive techniques of failure using fracture mechanics, continuum damage mechanics, micro to meso-scale modelling techniques and validating the results with appropriate experiments. He has been involved with industry and research establishments on numerous multi-disciplinary projects dealing with different aspects of fracture ranging from cryogenic to very high temperatures. In particular, his main impetus has been in the field of high temperature creep/fatigue crack growth, by considering the experimental, metallurgical, micro-modelling and numerical predictions associated with it.
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Yun-Jae Kim Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Prof. Kim is currently working at Korea University as a professor of mechanical engineering. He has studied in Korea University for B.S degree, Michigan State University for M.S degree, and got his Ph.D degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. Before his current position, he did research work in MIT, GKSS Research Centre, British Energy Generation Ltd and Sungkyunkwan University. His research interests mainly include Mechanics of materials, analytical/computational non-linear fracture mechanics analysis and fracture mechanics based structural integrity assessment of plant components. He received a lot of awards, such as International Institute of Welding (IIW) Henry Granjon Award (1998), CEGB Award, IMech, UK (2002), and Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK (2011). He is currently serving as Editorial Board Member of international journals, including Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design, Engineering Fracture Mechanics and International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping.
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Shan-Tung Tu Professor, School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Shanghai, China |
Professor Tu is a professor of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, received his B.Eng degree in 1982 and Ph.D degree in 1988 from Nanjing University of Technology. His research focuses on high temperature structural integrity and engineering, including creep, fatigue fracture, structural integrity monitoring and design of high temperature equipment. He is an author of more than 300 papers and received a number of distinguished awards, including China National Science and Technology Progress Award, National Technology Invention Award, China Youth Science and Technology Award, etc. He is currently an honorary professor of the University of Nottingham. And he as been the honorary president of Chinese Pressure Vessel Institution (since 2010) and the honorary president of Chinese Materials Institution (since 2015) of China Mechanical Engineering Society, Chairman of China Structural Integrity Consortium, Chairman of Asian Oceanic Regional Committee of International Council for Pressure Vessel Technology, member of reliability committee of IFToMM. He is also serving a number of journals as an associate editor or editorial board member, including Int J Pres Ves and Piping, Applied Energy, J of Materials Science and Technology, etc. |
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Jian Lu Professor, Vice President, Dean of graduate studies |
Prof. Jian LU is Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Vice President (R&T) and Dean of graduate studies at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU). He obtained the Dip. Ing., Master(DEA) degree and Doctoral degree from University of Technology of Compiegne in 1984 and 1986 respectively. He received the Diploma of Habilitation from the UPMC (Paris VI) in 1993. From 1986 to 1994, he was appointed as Senior Research Engineer at the CETIM (French Technical Centre for Mechanical Industry). In 1994, he was appointed as Professor; Head of Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering and Director of Mechanical Systems and Concurrent Engineering Laboratory jointly supported by the French Ministry of Education and CNRS at the University of Technology of Troyes, France. From 2005 to 2010, he was Chair Professor and Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. From 2010 to 2013, he was appointed as a Chair Professor and dean of college of science and engineering at CityU. Professor LU’s primary research interest is advanced materials and its integration in mechanical and energy systems using the combination of experimental mechanics and mechanical simulation. He has also branched out into several other areas of interest including surface engineering, biomechanics, residual stresses, and mechanics of nanomaterials. He has published more than 320 SCI journal papers including 30 papers in Science, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, PRL, Acta Materialia, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, International Journal of Plasticity and 17 granted patents (including international extension in China, Europe and USA. During last 30 years, he has conducted research with different worldwide leading companies in Structural Integrity such as SNECMA, AIRBUS, AREVA, Alstom, EDF, GE, ABB. He was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Technologies of France in 2011.
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Xue-Ren Wu Professor, Senior Technical Fellow, Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials, China |
Professor Xue-Ren Wu is Senior Technical Fellow of Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials. He is also Part-time Professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He graduated from Tianjin University in 1969, and obtained PhD degree in Solid Mechanics in 1983 from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Wu’s research interest is in fracture mechanics, with special emphasis on weight function methods and fatigue crack growth life predictions for both large and small cracks. |
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Masao Sakane Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Email: sakanem@se.ritsumei.ac.jp |
Prof. Masao Sakane was awarded the M.E. and the ph.D degrees from Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan in 1974 and 1979, respectively. He joined Ritsumeikan University in 1976 and became a full professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1994. His research interests are low cycle fatigue, creep, creep-fatigue, constitutive modeling for electronic and conventional structural materials and inverse problem of indentation hardness under uniaxial and multiaxial stress states. He served as a chairman of the Society of Materials Science for 2013-2014 and as a dean of Faculty of Science and Engineering at Ritsumeikan University for 2007-2012. He was awarded Fellow from Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2003 and other several awards. He published more than 200 papers relating to his expertise.
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Esteban Busso Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Esteban Busso is currently visiting professor of Imperial College London and working at MATTech International R&D Consulting. From 2013 till 2017 he was the Scientific Director of ONERA's Materials and Structures Branch. From 2005 till 2013 he was a Professor of Mechanics of Materials at the Ecole des Mines de Paris and Director of the Ecole's Centre des Matériaux and, from 1994 till 2005, Professor at Imperial College's Department of Mechanical Engineering in London, UK. Dr. Busso obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Cordoba, Argentina, in Dec. 1980. In 1985, he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA, where he was awarded his MSc degree and, in 1990, his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has also worked in industry in the UK, Japan, South Africa and Argentina. His research involves micromechanics studies of deformation and fracture of materials and interfaces, with an emphasis on the development of multiscale and multiphysics concepts in mechanistic models to predict deformation and fracture processes. In August 2014, Dr. Busso was elected to the British Royal Academy of Engineering. He has authored and edited 12 scientific books, and published over 135 articles in peer reviewed international journals (H-index of 32 with 3205 citations in Google Scholar). He is an advisor to industry worldwide, to the US Department of Energy, the European Commission, as well as the British, Dutch and French research councils, amongst others. |
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Pingsha Dong University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
Dr. Dong’s teaching and research interests include advanced design and analysis methodologies for engineering structures with an emphasis on welded structures and novel computational modeling techniques for manufacturing processes. He has developed numerous unique computational procedures that have been adopted by major manufacturing industries and National/International Codes & Standards. These include the mesh-insensitive structural stress method for fatigue design and life evaluation of welded structures adopted by 2007 ASME Div 2 International Code, the Joint 2007 ASME FFS-1/API 579 RP-1 Fitness for Service Code. Dr. Dong has published about 200 papers in peer-reviewed archive journals and major conference proceedings, giving over two dozens of Plenary/Keynote Lectures at major international conferences. He is currently serving as Editor-in-chief of International Journal of Pressure Vessels & Piping.
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Sean Leen Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering |
Sean Leen is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NUI Galway since 2008. He is a member of the Ryan Institute for Environment, Marine and Energy. Sean is an SFI-funded Principal Investigator in the I-Form Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and of a project called MECHANNICS: Multi-scale, through-process characterisation for innovative manufacture of next-generation welded connections. He was previously Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at University of Nottingham, where he completed his PhD with Professor Tom Hyde. Sean previously worked within the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centres for Advanced Manufacture and Advanced Gas Turbine Transmissions at the University of Nottingham. He also worked for some time in engineering consultancy on finite element software development for the design and analysis of offshore oil and gas structures. Sean’s research interests include computational solid mechanics, with particular application to high temperature plasticity, contact mechanics, manufacturing processes and structural integrity (e.g. fatigue, fretting and wear).
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Jinhua Shi Suzhou Nuclear Power |
Dr. Shi is currently working at Suzhou Nuclear Power Research Institute. He previously worked for Amec Foster Wheeler as a Managing Consultant in the UK and has over 38 years’ experience in mechanical and structural engineering design, research & development, elastic and inelastic finite element analyses and structural integrity assessments of nuclear and conventional power plants, and petrochemical plants in the UK, Europe, Hong Kong and Mainland of China. In addition to having produced hundreds of research and engineering assessment reports, Dr. Shi has published about 40 papers in international journals and international conferences. He has extensive experience of structural integrity assessments using International Design Codes (a full range of failure mechanisms), R5 (high temperature creep-fatigue crack initiation and creep-fatigue crack growth assessments), R6 (low temperature limiting defect and fatigue crack growth assessments) and BS 7910 in support of nuclear power plant safety cases and plant life extension projects; and also has in-depth knowledge of GB/T 19624. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Member of ASME, Member of the Cooperation in Reactor Design Evaluation and Licensing (CORDEL) Working Group of the World Nuclear Association (WNA), Committee Member of the Computational Structural Mechanics Working Group of the NAFEMS UK and member of the UK High Temperature Power Plant Forum.
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Koichi Yagi Senior Advisor, National Center for Materials Service Safety, University of Science & Technology Being, Beijing, China |
Dr. Koichi Yagi worked as a researcher in National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) (formerly National Research Institute for Metals (NRIM)), and he retired from NIMS in March 2006, and he is a private consultant for materials failure accident. He is working as a senior advisor of National Center for Materials Service Safety (NCMS), University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) from April 2009. His working area is safety and reliability of structural metals, life prediction of materials for plant maintenance, failure analysis and so on. When he worked in NIMS, he performed his part as a leader for the development of NIMS structural materials data sheet project including creep data sheet and the development of NIMS materials database. His main research areas were the study on creep-fatigue interaction of heat resistant steels, the study on creep crack growth behavior of heat resistant steels, the development of materials risk information platform and so on. He stayed in MPA Stuttgart as a visiting researcher from 1980 to 1981. He has organized many international conferences on creep, for example, 8th International Conference on Creep and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, Japan (1999) and 4th Japan-China Bilateral Symposium on High Temperature Materials Strength (2001) (with Prof. Xishan Xie and Prof. Shantung Tu). He wrote and edited some books, for example, “Creep Properties of Heat Resistant Steels and Superalloys” which was written together with European and Japanese researchers and published from Springer in 2004. He played the active part for engineering societies, for example, as Japanese representative of JPVRC-EPERC-PVRC committee, Japanese representative of VAMAS (Versailes Project on Advanced Materials and Standards) steering committee and so on. He received JSME Medal for Distinguished Engineers from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2007, Carl von Bach Medal from Stuttgart University in 2005, the Fourth Order of the Sacred Treasure from Japanese government in April 2016 and so on.
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Professor Guozheng Kang Southwest Jiaotong University, China |
Prof. Kang is a Chair Professor of Southwest Jiaotong University, and obtained his PhD in Solid Mechanics from Southwest Jiaotong University in December 1997. His research interests primarily are inelastic constitutive models of materials, fatigue, damage, fracture and mechanics of composites. Prof. Kang has published over 300 papers on peer-reviewed journals, 1 Chinese and 1 English monographs. From 2014 to 2019, Prof. Kang was consecutively included in the Most Cited Chinese Researchers list in the field of Mechanics of Materials released by Elsevier. He is now an executive council member of Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Besides a co-editor of International Journal of Fatigue and a regional editor of International Journal of Fracture, Prof. Kang also serves as a member of the editorial boards of several international journals, such as International Journal of Plasticity, Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, Mechanics of Composite Materials, and Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, as well as several domestic journals including Advances in Mechanics, Chinise Journal of Solid Mechanics, Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University (Natural Sciences), and Applied Mathematics and Mechanics.
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- Deadline for submission of abstract
1 June 2020 （extended to 1 July 2020）
- Notification of acceptance of abstract
15 June 2020
- Deadline for pre-conference registration
30 Sept 2020
- Conference open
22 Oct 2020
