导师风采 Supervisor's Information

Dr. Zhiping Xu received his B.S. (2002) and Ph.D. (2007) from Tsinghua University. His research interests include the physics of synthetic materials and living systems in general. Currently his work is focused on the microstructural complexity and evolution of matter.

Dr. Xu worked at Rice University in 2007-2008 and MIT in 2008-2010 as a postdoctoral researcher. He returned to Tsinghua in 2010 and was promoted to a full Professor of Engineering Mechanics in 2015.

1. Mechanics of Materials (undergraduate, 2011-)
mechanical equilibrium, internal forces, beams (tension, shear, bending, torsion), plates and shells, strength and failure criteria, fracture and fatigue, energy methods and finite element analysis, buckling and elastic stability, mechanical behaviors of materials (metals, polymers, semiconductors, composites), dynamical responses of materials (vibration, impact), fundamentals of continuum mechanics (tensors, theory of elasticity, viscoelasticity, viscoplasticity)

2. Physical Mechanics (graduate, 2012-)

introduction, multiscale and multiphysics nature of matter, structures (atomic description, order and disorder, characterization, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and molecular dynamics), energy (from classical to quantum mechanics, many-body problems, density functional theory), equilibrium (statistical mechanics, phonons, fluctuation, phase transition, Monte Carlo and renormalization), dynamics (correlation, kinetics, dynamics, electronic dynamics)

3. Mechanics of Curves and Surfaces (graduate, 2020-)

introduction (mechanics of materials, continuum mechanics), theory of elasticity (vectors and tensors, differential geometry for curves and surfaces, strain, stress, finite deformation theory, variational methods), rods (geometry of rods, bending, torsion, Kirchhoff, tension, examples, numerical methods), plates (Gauss's theorema egregium, membrane theory, Föppl-von Kármán, Kirchhoff, Reissner, examples, numetical methods), shells (geometrical rigidity, membrane theory, bending theory, examples, numerical methods), stability (elastic stability, curves, surfaces, numerical methods), dynamics, fluid-structure interaction, thermal fluctuation, defects, failure of curves and surfaces

1. physics of synthetic materials and living systems

with the focus on resolving the microstructural complexity of matter and understanding the non-equilibrium processes

2. computational thinking of materials science and mechanics of structures

and the applications in sustainable engineering (aerospace, energy, commecial electronics), using multi-scale simulations for electrons, atoms, and structures, as well as artificial intelligence methods

3. next-generation devices for human-machine interfaces and high-performance computing

guided by the principles of nanofluidics, iontronics and structural superlubricity that operates at high efficiency and low energy cost

1. Glasses, material genome of oxide glasses, design, fabrication and applications

2. LH2, energy storage and transportation using liquid hydrogen

3. Devices, nanofluidics, iontronics, and structure superlubricity derived devices

see https://xuzhiping.github.io/ and https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VNcqui8AAAAJ&hl=en