Jie Zhi

Jie Zhi

Research Professor at Tongji University

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About Me

Dr. Jie Zhi is currently a research professor at the School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University since March 2023. Prior to this, he worked as a research fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, and he earned his Ph.D. degree from the same department in 2020. He also holds M.Eng. and B.Eng. degrees in Aerospace Engineering with a minor in Applied Mathematics from Beihang University. His research interests are mainly in mechanical characterization of fiber-reinforced composites, process modeling in composites manufacturing, and advanced computational methods.

Selected Publications

Journal

Mchanical characterization

  • KL Xu, LL Liu✽, J Zhi✽, W. Chen, TE Tay, Hygrothermal effects on ballistic behavior of toughened CFRP laminates, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 280:109531 (2024)
  • JL Liu, J Zhi✽, HL Wong, ES Sugeng, TE Tay, VBC Tan✽, Effect of ply blocking on the high-speed impact performance of thin-ply CFRP laminates, Composites Science and Technology, 228:109640 (2022)
  • J Zhi, TE Tay, Interrogating failure mechanisms of notched composites through a discrete crack modeling approach, Composites Science and Technology, 196:108203, (2020)
  • J Zhi, TE Tay, Explicit modelling of matrix cracking and delamination in laminated composites with discontinuous solid-shell elements, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 351:60-84 (2019)
  • J Zhi, BY Chen, TE Tay, Geometrically nonlinear analysis of matrix cracking and delamination in composites with floating node method, Computational Mechanics, 63:201-217 (2019)

Multiscale modeling

  • J Zhi, B Yang, Y Li, TE Tay, VBC Tan, Multiscale thermo-mechanical analysis of cure-induced deformation in composite laminates using Direct FE2, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 173:107704 (2023)
  • J Zhi, KH Leong, KM Yeoh, TE Tay, VBC Tan, Multiscale modeling of laminated thin-shell structures with Direct FE2, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 407:115942 (2023)
  • J Zhi, LH Poh, TE Tay, VBC Tan, Direct FE2 modeling of heterogeneous materials with a micromorphic computational homogenization framework, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 393:114837 (2022)
  • J Zhi, K Raju, TE Tay, VBC Tan, Multiscale analysis of thermal problems in heterogeneous materials with Direct FE2 method, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 122(24):7482-7503 (2021)
  • J Zhi, K Raju, TE Tay, VBC Tan, Transient multi-scale analysis with micro-inertia effects using Direct FE2 method, Computational Mechanics, 67:1645-1660 (2021)

Conference

  • Multiscale and Multiphysics modeling of process-induced distortion of composite laminates with Direct FE2, 12th Asian-Australasian Conference on Composite Materials, Hangzhou, China, 25 – 28 Apr. (2023)
  • Exploring Direct FE2 in modeling heterogeneous problems beyond scale separation, 15th World Congress on Computational Mechanics & 8th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, Yokohama, Japan, 31 Jul.-8 Aug. (2022)
  • Explicit damage modeling of composites under compressive loading, 22nd International Conference on Composite Materials, Melbourne, Australia, 11-16 Aug. (2019)
  • A geometrically nonlinear floating node method for damage modeling of composites, 18th European Conference on Composite Materials, Athens, Greece, 24-28 Jun. (2018)
  • Spectral stochastic homogenization of composites with randomness in constituent material properties, 21st International Conference on Composite Materials, Xi’an, China, 20-25 Aug. (2017)