Professor Zhuo Zhuang , is the Dean of the School of Aerospace at Tsinghua University. He has published more than 15 books and 140 papers at International and National Journals, as well as at Proceedings of International Conference. His research interests focus on fracture mechanics, multiscale crystal plasticity, structural mechanics and engineering applications. In 2001 he was awarded the Natural Science Second Award of Chinese University Science and Technology, and he is currently the vice director of the Promoting Committee to Combination of Engineering Applications and Industry, he is Member of Chinese Society of Computational Mechanics, Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, and editor of Engineering Mechanics Press, in Chinese.

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Professor Xiong Zhang is the director of the institute of engineering dynamics, School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University. He was supported by the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in Universities, the Ministry of Education of China from 2004 to 2008. He won second prize for Natural Science from the Ministry of Education of China in 2009 (first accomplisher), first prize for Natural Science from the Ministry of Education of China in 2008 (sixth accomplisher), and Educational Innovation Award from Beijing Municipal Education Commission in 2003. He is a member of Chinese Association of Computational Mechanics, Vice Chairman of Beijing Association of Vibration Engineering, International Advisor of HKIE Transactions, and member of editorial board of International Journal of Computational Methods, Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, Chinese Journal of Computational Mechanics and Chinese Journal of Computer Aided Engineering.

His research interests focus on basic theories and numerical methods of computational mechanics and its application in sciences and engineering practices. More specifically, his expertise involves numerical methods (meshfree and particle methods, finite element and extended finite element methods, finite volume methods) for multiscale; as well as complex interactions such as multiple media (rigid body, solid, fluid) and multi-physics (structure, thermal, chemical, electromagnetism) behavior of materials and structures under strong impact load (such as impact, shock and explosion).

His research directions include computational impact dynamics, fluid-structure interaction, hypervelocity impact dynamics, micro- and nano-mechanics and multiscale analysis, high performance computing and analysis of large engineering structure.

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Professor Zhanli Liu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering Mechanics of the School of Aerospace in Tsinghua University. He got his B.SC. in Mechanics by Tsinghua University in 2004 and his Doctoral Degree in 2009 also in Tsinghua. In 2010 he was a visiting scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. In 2011 he was awarded the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of P.R. China. Since 2008 he has published several articles both in national and international journals. His research interests focus on Multi-scale crystal plasticity, Advanced numerical methods in the simulation of fracture and damage in solids, and Micromechanics simulation of advanced composite materials.

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Dr. Xinzheng Lu , PhD in 2005 (Tsinghua University). In 2011 he was a Visiting Associate Professor at Kobe University, and has teaching experience in the areas of Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete, Catastrophology and Numerical Simulation for Structures. Currently head of the institute of disaster prevention and mitigation of School of Civil Engineering, he has published more than 120 papers on disaster assessment, numerical methods for concrete, complex structures nonlinear analysis, and new structural materials. In 2003 he was awarded with the First Prize of the Science and Technology Advancement Awared of the Ministry of Education of the PR China.

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