Chuanzeng Zhang#
| Membership Number: | 4209 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.statics.uni-siegen.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - present Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, School of Science and Technology, University of Siegen, Germany
- 2014 - 2015 Deputy Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, School of Science and Technology, University of Siegen, Germany
- 2007 - 2010 Director of the Institute of Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Siegen, Germany
- 2005 - 2008 Vice-Chairman of the Committee for PhD Study at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Siegen, Germany
- 2004 - present Professor (C4) and Chair of Structural Mechanics, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Siegen, Germany
- 1995 - 2004 Professor (C3) of the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz, Germany
- 1993 - 1996 Senior Consulting Engineer at BGS Ingenieursozietät for Civil and Transportation Engineering, Frankfurt/M., Germany
- 1988 - 1993 Associate Professor and Professor of the Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tongji University, Shanghai, PR China
- 1986 - 1988 Post-doctoral fellowship with Professor Jan D. Achenbach, Department of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University, USA
- 1983 - 1986 Research assistant & PhD candidate of Professor D. Gross, Institute of Mechanics, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Surface and interface effects in nao-materials and nano-structures (nano-ribbons, nano-tubes, nano-plates, nano-shells, etc.
- Mechanics of multifunctional (noise-absorbing, vibration-damping, heat-isolating and energy-saving) materials and structures
- Mechanics of smart (piezoelectzric, magnetoelectroelastic, shape-memory) materials and structures
- Elastodynamics and structural dynamics (impact loading, dynamic effects, vibration isolation, vibration control, etc.)
- Fracture and damage mechanics, and fatigue analysis of engineering materials, components and structures
- Micromechanics of concrete materials and structures (effective properties, homogenization, interface defects, etc.)
- Acoustic and elastic wave propagation phenomena (attentuation, dispersion, reflection/transmission, scattering, localization)
- Static and dynamic analysis of continuously nonhomogeneous functionally graded materials (FGMs) and structures
- Band structures (pass-bands and band-gaps) and wave control in phononic crystals or periodic composite materials/structures
- Computational mechanics (boundary element method, smoothed/extended finite element method, meshless methods, etc.)
Honours and Awards
- 10.2015 Du Qinghua Medal & Awards of Computational Methods in Engineering
- 09.2015 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 01.2015 Honorary doctorate (doctor honoris causa or Dr. h. c.) by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
- 10.2014 Member of the European Academy of Sciences
- 04.2014 Visiting Professor of the China Building Materials Academy, Beijing, PR China
- 04.2014 Visiting Professor of the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, PR China
- 2010 - 2011 Distinguished Visiting Scholar of the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, PR China
- 2011 - present Honorary President of the Tongji University Alumni Association in Germany, Germany
- 01.2009 Guest Professor of the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, PR China
- 09.2006 Guest Professor of the Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, PR China
- 09.2002 Guest Professor of the Tongji University, Shanghai, PR China
- 1990 Award of the Shanghai High-Education Bureau, Shanghai, PR China
