Professor Yang Xiang

• Biography   
• Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise 
• Grants/Current Projects
• Publications
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Biography

Yang obtained his Bachelor and Master degrees from Chongqing Institute of Architecture and Engineering in China, in 1982 and 1985 respectively. He studied at the University of Queensland in 1989 and was awarded a PhD degree in 1993. He joined UWS as a Lecturer in 1996 and contributed to the course development and coordination of the Civil Engineering program. He was appointed to the position of Associate Head of School (Engineering) in July 2007 and was promoted to Professor in 2008.

Yang is a member of Engineers Australia (IEAust) and a member of American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE). He is also a member of the Stability Committee, Engineering Mechanics Division, ASCE since 2004. He serves on the Editorial Board of International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics (IJSSD) since 2003.

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Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise

85010 Structural Analysis
85006 Introduction to Structural Engineering

Yang has extensive research expertise in the areas of stability and vibration analyses of structures and development of computational methods for the analyses of solid and structural mechanics problems. His research on the buckling and vibration behaviour of thick plates has made a significant impact in this area with results being widely cited. He obtained exact solutions for buckling and vibration of plates and shells which provide important benchmark values for engineers and researchers in this field. He developed several effective computational methods for the analysis of thin-walled structures. His current research interestes include non-local beam theory for the analysis of micro/nano rods; photogrammetry technique for stress and deformation measurement; DSC algorithm for the analysis of thin-walled structures; and analysis of plates and shells with surface cracks.

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Grants/Current Projects

2006-2008 ARC Discovery grant, Development of a novel numerical method for the computations of thin-walled structures, $240 000.

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Publications

Liew KM, Wang CM, Xiang Y and Kitipornchai S. Vibration of Mindlin Plates - Programming the p-Version Ritz Method. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 1998.

Xiang Y. Chapter 8-Vibration of plates with abrupt changes in properties. Analysis and Design of Plated Structures, Volume 2: Dynamics, Edited by Shanmugam NE and Wang CM, Woodhead Publishing Limited, Abington Hall, Abington, 2007.

Shen HS, Xiang Y. Buckling and postbuckling of anisotropic laminated cylindrical shells under combined axial compression and torsion. Composite Structures. Volume: 84 Issue: 4 Pages: 375-386 Published: Aug 2008.

Zhang L, Xiang Y. Exact solutions for vibration of stepped circular cylindrical shells. Journal of Sound and Vibration. Volume: 299 Issue: 4-5 Pages: 948-964 Published: Feb 6 2007.

Xiang Y, Wei GW. Exact solutions for buckling and vibration of stepped rectangular Mindlin plates. International Journal of Solids and Structures. Volume: 41 Issue: 1 Pages: 279-294 Published: Jan 2004.

Xiang Y. Exact solutions for buckling of multispan rectangular plates. Journal of Engineering Mechanics-ASCE. Volume: 129 Issue: 2 Pages: 181-187 Published: Feb 2003.

Wei GW, Zhao YB, Xiang Y. Discrete singular convolution and its application to the analysis of plates with internal supports. Part 1: Theory and algorithm. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. Volume: 55 Issue: 8 Pages: 913-946 Published: Nov 20 2002.

Xiang Y, Kitipornchai S, Liew KM. Buckling and vibration of thick laminates on Pasternak foundations. Journal of Engineering Mechanics-ASCE. Volume: 122 Issue: 1 Pages: 54-63 Published: Jan 1996.

Liew KM, Xiang Y, Kitipornchai. Research on thick plate vibration - a literature survey. Journal of Sound and Vibration. Volume: 180 Issue: 1 Pages: 163-176 Published: Feb 9 1995.

Xiang Y, Liew KM, Kitipornchai S. Transverse vibration of thick annular sector plates. Journal of Engineering Mechanics-ASCE. Volume: 119 Issue: 8 Pages: 1579-1599 Published: Aug 1993.

 For information, contact Professor Yang Xiang.
 

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