BEng. Liguo ZHAO, Ph.D.

Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom, EU

Position: Senior Lecturer, Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, United Kingdom (EU)

At the METAL 2015 conference Dr. Zhao will deliver the invited lecture "Cyclic Deformation, Crack Growth and Oxidation Damage for Nickel-Based Superalloys" at the thematic session E - Non-Ferrous Metals and Alloys.

Education and Career Acomplishment:

11/2012 - present	Senior Lecturer, Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, United Kingdom (EU)
11/2005 - 10/2012	Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom (EU)
03/2004 - 10/2005	Research Fellow, School of Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering, the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (EU)
10/2002 - 02/2004	Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom (EU)
06/1999 - 10/2002	Research Associate/Fellow, Department of Mechanical and Design Engineering, the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom (EU)
12/1997 - 05/1999	Research Associate, Department of Engineering, the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (EU)
09/1992 - 12/1996	Ph.D. of Engineering, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China
09/1988 - 07/1992	BEng, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China

Research Interests and Activities:

Fracture, fatigue and creep of advanced materials.
Dislocation, crystal plasticity and cyclic viscoplasticity models for metallic materials.
Oxidation-assisted fatigue and creep crack initiation and propagation.
Multi-scale material model (discrete dislocation, crystal plasticity and continuum plasticity).
Computational modelling of stent biomechanics and its design.
Mechanical behaviour of biodegradable polymers for stent application.
Residual stress and its effect on failure in polymer composites.
Thermal shock stress and fracture.

External Activities:

Professional affiliations: Member of European Mechanics Society (since 2010); Member of Institute of Engineering and Technology (since 2011); Member of American Society for Metals (2008-2009).
Invited lectures at University of Limerick of Ireland (2009); Xi’an Jiaotong University of China (2009); Huazhong University of Science and Technology of China (2009 & 2012); Tsinghua University of China (2012); Wuhan Textile University of China (2012); SINOPEC Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Industry (2013); Institute of Metal Physics, National Academy of Science of Ukraine (2014).
Invited seminars at the School of Engineering Science, University of Southampton, 2011; IOM³ West Surrey Materials Society Seminar, University of Surrey, 2010; Institute of Superhard Materials, National Academy of Science of Ukraine (2014).
Invited talk and session chair at IWCMM21, International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials, University of Limerick, Ireland, 2011; Plenary lecture at IX International Conference on Mathematical Problems of Mechanics of Nonhomogeneous Structures, L’viv, Ukraine (2014).
Research collaboration: QinetiQ & Rolls-Royce (1999~2002); Rolls-Royce & Cranfield University (2007~2010); Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2009~2011); Imperial College, University of Southampton, E.On, Alstom, Dstl and NASA (2013~2016), University of Warwick, Swansea University, E.On, Alstom, Dstl and NASA (2013~2016); University of Manchester, University of Southampton, Alstom, Rolls-Royce and dstl (2014~2108).

Publication activity:
http://publications.lboro.ac.uk/publications/all/collated/mmlz.html

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