Team Description
The team consists of 5 members: Prof. Ch. Zhang as team leader and 4 PhD students.
Area of team expertise according to the project tasks:
1.) Time-harmonic and transient elastodynamic crack analysis;
2.) Frequency-domain and time-domain boundary integral equation methods;
3.) Micromechanics of damaged solids;
4.) Wave propagation in damaged elastic solids;
5.) Fracture and damage mechanics of functionally graded materials (FGMs);
6.) Fracture and damage mechanics of piezoelectric solids.
List of publications
1. Zhang, Ch. and Achenbach, J. D.: Effective Wave Velocity and Attenuation in a Material with Distributed Penny-Shaped Cracks. Int. J. Solids Structures, Vol. 27, pp. 751-767, 1991.
2. Zhang, Ch. and Gross, D.: Wave Attenuation and Dispersion in Randomly Cracked Solids I: Slit Cracks. Int. J. Eng. Sci., Vol. 31, pp. 841-858, 1993.
3. Zhang, Ch. and Gross, D.: Wave Attenuation and Dispersion in Randomly Cracked Solids II: Penny-shaped Cracks. Int. J. Eng. Sci., Vol. 31, pp. 859-872, 1993.
4. Zhang, Ch. and Gross, D.: Wave Attenuation and Dispersion in Fiber-Reinforced Composites with Interface Sliping. In: Fracture and Damage in Quasibrittle Structures (Ed. by Z. P. Bazant et al.), pp. 633-640. E & FN Spon, 1994.
5. Zhang, Ch. and Gross, D.: On Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids With Cracks (Monograph with 248 pages). Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton, UK, Boston, USA. 1998.
Team Leader and address
Title | Prof. |
Position | Head of Unit |
Sex | Male |
Date Of Birth | 16/12/1957 |
First Name | Chuanzeng |
Patronymic Name | |
Family Name | Zhang |
Organisation Type | Public |
Organisation Registration Nr | |
Academy / Branch | University |
Organisation / University / Institute | University of Siegen |
Department | Department of Civil Engineering |
Laboratory | |
Street Name | Paul-Bonatz-Str. |
Nr | 9-11 |
Post Box | |
Zip code | 57076 |
City | Siegen |
Country | Germany |
Phone 1 | 49/271/7402173 |
Fax 1 | 49/271/7402552 |
Email 1 | c.zhang@uni-siegen.de |
Email 2 | |
Website | www.uni-siegen.de/dept/fb10/baustatik |
List of Senior Scientists in the team
1) | First Name | Stefanie |
Patronymic Name | ||
Family Name | Beyer | |
Year Of Birth | 1978 | |
Institute | University of Siegen | |
2) | First Name | Oliver |
Patronymic Name | ||
Family Name | Carl | |
Year Of Birth | 1975 | |
Institute | University of Siegen | |
3) | First Name | Christian |
Patronymic Name | ||
Family Name | Kirchhoff | |
Year Of Birth | 1977 | |
Institute | University of Siegen | |
4) | First Name | Michael |
Patronymic Name | ||
Family Name | Wuensche | |
Year Of Birth | 1974 | |
Institute | University of Siegen |
Statistics
Number of Team Members involved in this project: 5
Number of Team Members under 35: 4
Number of Team Members who have individually received grants in INTAS projects: 0