Assistant Professor, College of Aerospace Engineering, NUAA

Personal information

Dr. Qiang Liu is an associate professor in the College of Aerospace Engineering at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA). He mainly focuses on the modelling of the mechanical behaviour of light-weight composites, metallic materials and porous media. Dr. Liu is currently working on the bio-inspired design of novel light-weight composites based on the optimization tools he has developed.

Email address: liuqiang2015@nuaa.edu.cn

Research interests

1. Mechanics of nano-engineered composites and porous media,

2. Crystal-plasticity modelling

3. Optimization design of material microstructure

4. Multi-scale modelling

Working experience

1. 2019.11--present：Associate professor, College of Aerospace Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

2. 2016.11--2019.11: Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Materials Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium

3. 2014.08--2016.10: Research associate, School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, UK

Education

1. 2009.09--2014.07: Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics, School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, Beihang University, China

2. 2005.09--2009.07: B.S. in Flight Vehicle Design and Engineering, School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, Beihang University, China

Journal publications

1. Qiang Liu, Stepan V. Lomov, Larissa Gorbatikh. When does carbon nanotube grafting on fibers benefit composite toughness, Composites Science and Technology (under revision).

2. Qiang Liu, Stepan V. Lomov, Larissa Gorbatikh. A combined use of embedded and cohesive elements to model damage development in fibrous composites, Composite Structures, 2019, 223: 110921.

3. Qiang Liu, Stepan V. Lomov, Larissa Gorbatikh. The interplay between multiple toughening mechanisms in nanocomposites with spatially distributed and oriented carbon nanotubes as revealed by dual-scale simulations, Carbon, 2018, 142: 141-149.

4. Qiang Liu, Stepan V. Lomov, Larissa Gorbatikh. Optimization of spatial distribution and orientation of nanotubes for suppression of stress concentrations, Materials & Design, 2018, 158: 136-146.

5. Qiang Liu, Anish Roy, Vadim V. Silberschmidt. Temperature-dependent crystal-plasticity model for magnesium: A bottom-up approach. Mechanics of Materials, 2017, 113: 44-56.

6. SM Kamal, US Dixit, Anish Roy, Qiang Liu, Vadim V Silberschmidt. Comparison of plane-stress, generalized-plane-strain and 3D FEM elastic-plastic analyses of thick-walled cylinders subjected to radial thermal gradient. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2017, 131-132: 744-752.

7. Yao Zhang, Zixing Lu, Zhenyu Yang, Dahai Zhang, Jianjun Shi, Zeshuai Yuan, Qiang Liu. Compression behaviors of carbon-bonded carbon fiber composites: Experimental and numerical investigations. Carbon, 2017, 116: 398-408. 

8. Qiang Liu, Anish Roy, Vadim V Silberschmidt. Size-dependent crystal plasticity: from micro-pillar compression to bending. Mechanics of Materials, 2016, 100: 31-34.

9. Qiang Liu, Anish Roy, Vadim V Silberschmidt. Micro-cutting of single-crystal metal: finite-element analysis of deformation and material removal. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2016, 118: 135-143.

10. Qifei Jing, Qiang Liu, Lin Li, Zhili Dong, Vadim V Silberschmidt. Effect of graphene-oxide enhancement on large-deflection bending performance of thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer. Composites Part B, 2016, 89: 1-8. 

11. Zixing Lu, Zeshuai Yuan, Qiang Liu, Fan Xie, et al. Multi-scale simulation of the tensile properties of fiber-reinforced silica aerogel composites. Materials Science and Engineering A, 2015, 625: 278-287. 

12. Zixing Lu, Fan Xie, Qiang Liu. Surface effects on mechanical behavior of elastic nanoporous materials under high strain. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2015, 36 (7), 927-938. 

13. Qiang Liu, Zixing Lu, et al. Simulation of the tensile properties of silica aerogels: the effects of cluster structure and primary particle size. Soft Matter 2014, 10(33): 6266-6277.

14. Qiang Liu, Zixing Lu, Zijun Hu, Zhenyu Yang. Experimental and FEM analysis of the compressive behavior of 3D random fibrous materials with bonded networks. Journal of Materials Science, 2014, 49(3):1386-1398.

15. Zixing Lu, Qiang Liu, Xin Chen. Analysis and simulation of the tensile behavior of anisotropic open-cell elastic foams. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics-English Edition, 2014, 1:1-10. 

16. Zixing Lu, Man Zhu, Qiang Liu. Size-dependent mechanical properties of 2D random nanofibre networks. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2014, 47: 065310. 

17. Zixing Lu, Zeshuai Yuan, Qiang Liu. 3D numerical simulation for the elastic properties of random fibre composites with a wide range of fibre aspect ratios. Computational Materials Science, 2014, 90:123-129.

18. Zhenyu Yang, Yanguang Zhou, Tao Wang, Qiang Liu, Zixing Lu. Crack propagation behaviors at Cu/SiC interface by molecular dynamics simulation. Computational Materials Science, 2014, 82: 17-25.

19. Qiang Liu, Zixing Lu, Man Zhu, Zeshuai Yuan, et al. Finite element analysis on tensile behavior of 3D random fibrous materials: model description and meso-level approach. Materials Science and Engineering A, 2013, 587: 36-45.

20. Zixing Lu, Qiang Liu, Haitao Han, Dahai Zhang. Experiment and modelling on the compressive behaviors for porous silicon nitride ceramics. Materials Science and Engineering A, 2013, 559(1): 201-209.

21. Zixing Lu, Yuan Zhou, Zhenyu Yang, Qiang Liu. Multi-scale finite element analysis of 2.5D woven fabric composites under on-axis and off-axis tension. Computational Materials Science, 2013, 79:485-494. 

22. Zixing Lu, Qiang Liu, Jixiang Huang. Analysis of defects on the compressive behaviors of open-cell metal foams through models using the FEM. Materials Science and Engineering A, 2011, 530(15): 286-296.

23. Zixing Lu, Qiang Liu, Zhenyu Yang. Predictions of Young's modulus and negative Poisson's ratio of auxetic foams. Physica Status Solidi (B), 2011, 248(1): 167-174.

24. Zixing Lu, Chungang Zhang, Qiang Liu, Zhenyu Yang. Surface effects on the mechanical properties of nanoporous materials. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2011, 44: 395404.

Book chapters

1. Qiang Liu, Srihari Dodla, Aish Roy, Vadim V. Silberschmidt, Crystal-plasticity simulation of micromachining of single-crystal metal: methodology and analysis, in: K. Naumenko, M. Aßmus (Eds.) Advanced Methods of Continuum Mechanics for Materials and Structures, Springer-Verlag, 2016.

2. Qiang Liu, Murat Demiral, Anish Roy, Vadim V Silberschmidt. Modelling and simulations of nano-indentation in single crystals, in: Applied Nanoindentation in Advanced Materials, John Wiley & Sons, 2017.

Oral presentations

1. 2019/08: 22nd International Conference on Composite Materials, Melbourne, Australia

2. 2018/07: 10th European Solid Mechanics Conference, Bologna, Italy

3. 2018/06: 18th European conference on composite materials, Athens, Greece

4. 2017/09: 27th International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials, Leuven, Belgium

5. 2016/07：12th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XII) and 6th Asia-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM VI), Seoul, South Korea

6. 2015/05：4th International Conference on Material Modeling, 2015, Berkeley, USA