Education

Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (1993)
Johns Hopkins University, M.S.in Mechanical Engineering (1991)
Shanghai University of Science & Technology, B.E. in Precision Mechanical Engineering (1982)

Research Interests

Experimental and computational mechanics of materials, including high strain rate and shock wave experiments, rheometry, tribometry, large-amplitude stress wave propagation analysis, failure wave modeling and simulations, polycrystalline structure modeling and simulations, hybrid continuum and atomistic modeling and simulations of solid systems and solid-fluid interfaces, and dynamic response of ceramics, glasses, composites, polymer melts and compounds, and lubricants.

Selected Publications

Hu, Y. and Feng, R., "On the Use of Kolsky Torsion Bar to Study the Transient Large-Strain Response of Polymer Melts at High Shear Rates," to appear in Journal of Applied Mathematics.

Wu, M. S., Huang, H., and Feng, R., "Closed-Form Solutions for Interfacial Edge Dislocations in Anisotropic Bicrystals by the Image Method," to appear in Mechanics of Materials.

Zeng, C., Feng, R., and Xin, X., "A Damage Model with Shear-Induced Dilatancy:  Application to Failure Wave in Shocked Glass," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 56, 1979-1997, 2003.

Yuan, G., Feng, R., and Gupta, Y. M., "Compression and Shear Wave Measurements to Characterize the Shocked State in Silicon Carbide," Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 89, 5372-5380, 2001.

Yuan, G., Feng, R., Gupta, Y. M., and Zimmerman, K., "Shock Wave Response of Ammonium Perchlorate Single Crystals to 6 GPa," Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 88, 2371-2377, 2000.

Feng, R., "Formation and Propagation of Failure in Shocked Glasses," Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 87, 1693-1700, 2000.

For reprints of the above publications, please contact Dr. Feng through email: rfeng1@unl.edu

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