Zhang, Sulin

Zhang, Sulin

Assistant Professor

Office phone: (814) 865-7640
Office address: 411D EES BL
E-mail: suz10@psu.edu
Homepage: http://www.esm.psu.edu/zhang

Degrees with Fields, Institution, and Date

  • Ph.D., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Solid Mechanics), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2002
  • M.S., Solid Mechanics, Tsinghua University, China, 1997
  • B.Eng., Solid Mechanics, Dalian University of Technology, China, 1994

Number of Years of Service on This Faculty (1 year)

  • Aug 2007 – Present Assistant Professor, Penn State

Other Related Experience — Teaching, Industrial, Etc.

  • Aug 2005 – July 2007 Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
  • June 2002 – June 2005 Postdoc fellow, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Principal Publications of the Last Five Years

  • Sulin Zhang, T. Zhu, and T. Belytschko (2007) “Atomistic and multiscale modeling of fracture in crystal lattices,” Physical Review B, 76, pp. 094114.
  • Sulin Zhang, R. Khare, T. Belytschko, K. J. Hsia, S. L. Mielke, and G. C. Schatz (2006) “Transition states and minimum energy pathways for the collapse of carbon nanotubes,” Physical Review B, 73, pp. 075423.
  • Sulin Zhang, S. L. Mielke, R. Khare, D. Troya, R. S. Ruoff, G. C. Schatz, and T. Belytschko (2005) “Mechanics of defects in carbon nanotubes: atomistic and multiscale simulations,” Physical Review B, 71, pp. 115403.
  • Sulin Zhang, W. K. Liu, and R. S. Ruoff (2004) “Atomistic simulations of double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNTs) as rotational bearings,” Nano Letters, 4, pp. 293–297.
  • Sulin Zhang, H. T. Johnson, G. J. Wagner, W. K. Liu, and K. J. Hsia (2003) “Stress generation mechanisms in carbon thin films grown by ion-beam deposition,” Acta Materialia, 51, pp. 5211–5222.
  • Sulin Zhang, K. J. Hsia, and A. J. Pearlstein (2002) “Potential flow model of cavitation-induced interfacial fracture in a confined, ductile layer,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 50, pp. 549–570.

Consulting, Patents, and Scientific and Professional Societies of Which a Member

  • Biomedical Engineering Society, Member (2008 – Present)
  • Materials Society of Research, Member (2002 – Present)
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Member (2001 – Present)

Honors and Awards

  • NSF Early CAREER Development Award, National Science Foundation (Mar 2007)
  • The Oak Ridge Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Mar 2006)

Institutional and Professional Service in the Last Five Years

  • Committee Member for “Graduate student Recruitement/Retention”, ESM (Apr 2008 – Present)
  • Committee member for “Candidacy exam/Mechanics”, ESM (Mar 2008 – Present)
  • Journal Reviewer, Physical Review Letters; Physical Review B; Nano Letters; Nanotechnology; International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering; Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter; etc. (Jan 2002 – Present)
  • Symposium organizer, Fall meeting of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (July 2007 – Nov 2007)
  • Member of Technical Committee of Computational Mechanics Conference, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Nov 2006 – Nov 2007)
  • Symposium organizer, The 9th National Congress on Computational Mechanics (Mar 2007 – July 2007)
  • National Science Foundation Panelist, NSF, Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Rsearch Team (NIRT) (Mar 2007 – Mar 2007)
  • National Science Foundation Panelist, NSF, Nano-bio program (Mar 2006 – Mar 2006)