Department of Mechanical Design and Manufacturing

Name: Lei Zhang

Title: Dr.

Email Address: lzhang@cqu.edu.cn

Office Room Number: 7-334

Office Tel: 15520026234

Background of Education and Work Experience

  • Dec.2018-Present Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering, Chongqing University

  • Sept. 2013-Aug.2018 Doctor of Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta

  • Sept. 2010-Jul.2013 Master, Mechanical Engineering College, Chongqing University

  • Sept. 2006- Jul. 2010 Bachelor, Mechanical Engineering College, Chongqing University

Research Field

  • Solid mechanics

  • Biopolymer spherical shells

  • Stability

  • Vibration

Research and Honors

  • Lei Zhang, Mechanical effects of circular liquid inclusions inside soft matrix: the role of internal pressure change and surface tension. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (English Edition) (2021)

  • Lei Zhang, C. Q. Ru. An extended JKR model for adhesion of a rigid sphere on a supported compressible elastic thin layer. Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik 71:31, (2020).

  • Lei Zhang, C. Q. Ru. A Refined JKR Model for Adhesion of a Rigid Sphere on a Soft Elastic Substrate. Journal of Applied Mechanics-ASME 86, 051004 (2019).

  • Lei Zhang and C. Q. Ru, Post-buckling of a pressured biopolymer spherical shell with the mode interaction. Proceedings of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 474, 20170834 (2018).

  • Lei Zhang and C.Q. Ru, Free vibration of biopolymer spherical shells of high structural heterogeneity. AIP Advances, 8, 075006 (2018).

  • Lei Zhang, C. Q. Ru. Imperfection sensitivity of pressured buckling of biopolymer spherical shells. Physical Review E 93, 062403 (2016).