Shaoping Xiao

Research Highlights

Research Links:
http://www.ccad.uiowa.edu/

Joined the College of Engineering: 2003

Education:
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2002
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, 1998
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, 1995

Special Fields of Knowledge:
Nanotube technology; nano mechanics; materials science; solid mechanics; finite element methods; meshfree particle methods and topological optimizations

Present Research Interests:
Multiscale modeling and simulation; nanocomposites; NEMS; shock wave propagation and spallation

Selected Publications:
Xiao, S. P., and Hou, W. Y., Fracture of Defected Carbon Nanotubes and Their Embedded Nanocomposites, _Physical Review B_, Vol 73, 2006, 115406

Xiao, S. P., A Non-oscillatory Method for Spallation Studies, _International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering_, Vol 66, 2006, pp 364-380

Xiao, S. P., and Yang W. X., Temperature-Related Cauchy-Born Rule for Multiscale Modeling of Crystalline Solids, _Computational Materials Science_, Vol 37, 2006, pp 374-379

Xiao, S. P., and Belytschko, T., Material stability analysis of particle methods, _Advances in Mathematical computation_, Vol 23, 2005, pp 171-190

Xiao, S. P., and Belytschko, T., A bridging domain method for coupling continua with molecular dynamics, _Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering_, Vol. 193, 2004, pp. 1645-1669

Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships:
International Association of Computational Mechanics; U.S. National Association of Computational Mechanics