We would like to sincerely invite you to the seminar talk of prof. David Hui from University of New Orleans (USA).
Prof. David Hui - Biography
Dr. David Hui is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of Composites Materials Research Laboratory at University of New Orleans. He received his Ph.D. from University of Toronto in Aerospace Engineering. Dr. Hui has edited over 40 widely cited books, as evidence in the Google Search showing on these books. Other books includes, editor of Army Research Office workshop "Dynamics of Structures" proceedings, ICCE/1-20, SES, ASME books and numerous special issues of journals, and served as numerous keynote lecturers. He has served as founder and editor-in-chief of one of the most prestigious journals in composite materials, Composites B Engineering journal. Currently, he serves on the editorial board of 41 international journals, seven of them are nano journals, and the rest are mostly composite materials journals.
Dr. Hui has conducted over 3.5 million dollar funded research on composites materials and nano-materials, mostly for mechanical/aerospace engineering and ship structures applications. He is widely known for his research on (i) nano materials mechanical properties modeling and prototyping (ii) mechanical behavior of materials under high or low temperatures, flammability and creep of composite materials, including smart material and structures, (iii) impact of blast dynamics, micro-crack initiation and growth under thermal and mechanical loadings and (iv) infrastructure composites under harsh environments. Dr. Hui has co-authored approximately 300 technical publications, and received over 209,000 citations on his widely cited, edited books (from google) and over 1400 citations on his journals publications (from ISI).
One of Dr. Hui’s outstanding contributions in research lies in the modeling of penetration of composite materials using the energy partition model and functional graded approach to enhance the durability and safety of engineering structures under harsh environments. His pioneered research on the mechanisms of degradation of materials under low temperatures on composites has resulted in enormous improvement in the safety of engineering structures. Dr. Hui was the first to validate the dramatic effects of small curvature on vibration of flat plates, leading to the re-design and re-analysis of many structures critical for engineering safety.
