Senior
Lecturer
Department
of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Monash University,
Clayton VIC3800, Australia
Telephone:
+61 3 9902 0113 Fax: +61 3 9905 1825
Room: G06, Building 31,
Clayton Campus
Academic
Qualifications
- 1995 PhD, Tsinghua University,
Beijing, China.
- 1992 MSc (Eng), Beijing
University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China.
- 1989 BEng, Beijing
University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China.
Work experience
- July 2007 - present, Senior Lecturer, Monash
Univeristy
- December 2005 - June 2007, Lecturer, Deakin University.
- June 2003 - November 2005, Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland.
- 2001 - 2003, Research Associate, the University of Sydney.
- 1999 - 2000, Research Associate, Imperial College,
London, UK.
- 1995 - 1998, Research Associate, the
University of Leoben, Austria.
Research interests
Finite element analysis,
fracture and fatigue, mechanical behaviours of functional materials and
biomaterials, contact mechanics and wear study
External Research
Grants
Project
title: Titanium Alloy Scaffolds for Osseointegration
Implant Materials (2007-2009)
ARC Discovery Project
Investigators: Dr Cui'e Wen, Dr Wenyi Yan and
Prof. Geoffrey Nicholson
Project title: Reducing tool wear through novel surface treatments and improved
lubrication (2007-2010)
ARC Linkage Project
Investigators: Prof. Peter Hodgson,
Dr Bernard Rolfe, Dr Wenyi Yan and Dr Georgina Kelly
Project title: Theoretical and
Experimental Investigation of the Wear Behaviour of NiTi
Shape Memory Alloy (2006-2007)
ARC International Linkage Awards
Investigators: Dr Hong-Yuan Liu,
Dr Wenyi Yan and Prof. Qingping Sun
Project title: Wear behaviour
and Mechanism of Thin Film NiTi Shape Mememory Alloy at Micro-scales: Phase Transformation
versus Plasticity (2006-2007)
RGC Competitive Earmarked
Research Grant, Hong Kong
Investigators: Prof. Qingping Sun and Dr Wenyi Yan
Research students
Mr Michael Pereira
Mr Reza Rafiee
Miss Sadaf
Kashef
Mr Jiangting
Wang
Teaching
Aircraft Structures
(Postgraduate Unit)
Composite Structures
(Undergraduate Unit)
Experimental Project
(Undergraduate Unit)
Selected journal papers
W. Yan, Q. Sun and P. D. Hodgson (2008)
“Determination of plastic yield
stress from spherical indentation slope curve”, Materials Letters, v62, 2260-2262.
X.-Q.
Feng, L. Qian, W. Yan and Q. Sun (2008):
Wearless scratch on NiTi shape memory alloy due to phase transformational
shakedown. Applied Physics Letters, v. 92, No. 121909.
L. Qian, Z. Zhou,
Q. Sun and W. Yan (2007):
Nanofretting behaviour of NiTi shape memory
alloy, Wear, 263, 501-507.
H.-Y. Liu, W. Yan, X.-Y. Yu and Y.-W. Mai (2007):
Experimental study on effect of loading rate on
mode I delamination of z-pin reinforced laminates, Composites
Science and Technology, v. 67, 1294-1301.
W. Yan, E. Durif, Y. Yamada
and C. Wen (2007):
Crushing
Simulation of Foam-Filled Aluminium Tubes. Mater. Trans. (Materials
Transactions), 2007, 48, pp. 1901-1906.
W. Yan, Q. Sun, X.-Q. Feng,
L. Qian (2007):
Analysis
of Spherical Indentation of Superelastic Shape
Memory Alloys. International Journal of
Solids and Structures v.44, pp. 1-17.
W. Yan (2006):
Theoretical
investigation of wear-resistance mechanism of superelastic
shape memory alloy NiTi. Materials Science and Engineering A, v. 427, pp. 348-355.
W. Yan, Q. Sun, X.-Q. Feng,
L. Qian (2006):
Determination
of transformation stresses of shape memory alloys --- a method based on
spherical indentation. Applied Physics
Letters, v. 88, 24912-24914.
W. Yan, Q. Sun, H.-Y. Liu, (2006):
Spherical
indentation hardness of shape memory alloys. Materials Science and Engineering A, v. 425, pp. 278–285.
S.-C.
Dai, W. Yan, H.-Y. Liu and Y.-W.
Mai (2004):
Experimental
study on z-pin bridging law by pullout test, Composites Science and
Technology, v. 64, pp. 2451-2457.
W.
Yan, H.-Y. Liu and Y.-W. Mai (2004):
Mode
II delamination toughness of z-pinned laminates, Composites Science and Technology,
v. 64, pp. 1937-1945.
W.
Yan, H.-Y. Liu and Y.-W. Mai (2003):
Numerical
study on the mode I delamination toughness of
z-pinned laminates, Composites Science and Technology, v. 63, pp.
1481-1493.
W. Yan, C. H. Wang, X. P.
Zhang and Y.-W. Mai (2003):
Theoretical modeling of
the effect of plasticity on reverse transformation in superelastic
shape memory alloys. Materials Science
and Engineering A, v. 354, pp. 146-157.
W. Yan,
C. H. Wang, X. P. Zhang and Y.-W. Mai (2002):
Effect of transformation volume contraction on
the toughness of superelastic shape memory alloys. Smart
Materials and Structures, v. 11, pp. 947-955.
W. Yan, N. P. O'Dowd and E. P. Busso
(2002):
Numerical study of sliding wear
caused by a loaded pin on a rotating disc, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, v. 50, pp. 449-470.
W. Yan, E. P. Busso and N. P.
O'Dowd (2000):
A micromechanics investigation of
sliding wear in coated components, Proceedings
of Royal Society London,
Series A, v. 456, pp. 2387-2407.
W. Yan and F. D. Fischer (2000):
Applicability of the Hertz contact
theory to rail-wheel contact problems, Archive
of Applied Mechanics, v. 70, pp. 255-268.
R.
Danzer, F. D. Fischer, W. Yan (2000):
Application of probabilistic
fracture mechanics to a dynamic loading situation on the example of a dynamic
tension test for ceramics, J. Europ. Cer. Soc., v. 20, pp. 901-911.
D.-N. Fang, W. Lu, W. Yan,
T. Inoue and K.-C. Hwang (1998):
Stress-strain relation of CuAlNi SMA single crystal under biaxial loading ----
constitutive model and experiments, Acta materialia, v. 47, pp. 269-280.
W. Yan,
Q.-P. Sun, and K.-C. Hwang (1998):
A generalized micromechanics constitutive theory
of single crystal with thermoelastic martensitic transformation, Science in China
(Series A) v. 41, n.8, pp.
878-886.
F. D. Fischer, E. Werner and W. Yan (1997):
Thermal stresses for sliding
contact in wheel-rail systems, Wear,
v. 221, pp. 156-163.
W. Yan, Q.-P. Sun and K.-C. Hwang (1997):
Analyses of transformation plastic
localization in ceramics, International
Journal of Plasticity, v. 13, pp. 201-213.
W. Yan, G. Reisner and F. D.
Fischer (1997):
Micromechanical study on the morphology of matersite in constrained zirconia,
Acta materialia, v.
45, pp. 1969-1976.
W. Yan, Q.-P. Sun and K.-C. Hwang (1996):
Pseudoelastic hysteresis in martensitic reorientation of Cu-Zn-Al polycrystalline
shape memory alloys, Journal of
Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, v. 7, pp. 114-118.
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