Team : Siegen

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