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Wing K Liu

Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, McCormick Engineering and Applied Science, Mechanical Engineering

Wing K Liu

Research Interest Keywords

Nonlinear finite elements, multiscale methods for materials design and engineering simulation; Linear and Nonlinear Fluid Structure Interactions; Seismic Analysis and Vulnerability of Structures; Computational Nanotechnology; Multiscale Computational

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Research Statement: Professor Liu has written three books: Meshfree Particle Methods (with Shaofan Li, Springer, 2004), the definitive text on the subject; Nonlinear Finite Elements for Continua and Structures (co-authored with Ted Belytschko and Brian Moran, Wiley, 2000); the most popular text on nonlinear finite element analysis; and Nano Mechanics and Materials: Theory, Multiscale Methods and Applications (co-authored with Eduard Karpov and Harold Park, Wiley, 2006), which has received a very favorable review by Nanotoday (November, 2006). Recently, he has developed the 3D immersed finite element method for modeling the microfluidic electrokinetic assembly of nano wires and filaments and bio-molecules. This transformative bio-nanotechnology is being developed to enable drug delivery systems to achieve desired therapeutic effects. Professor Liu has made fundamental, innovative contributions to the theory and methodologies of simulation-based engineering. He has published over 350 journal and proceedings articles. In 2001 the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) identified Professor Liu as one of the most highly cited, influential researchers in Engineering, and an original member of the highly cited researchers database. Among his most noteworthy contributions are: (1) Development of multiscale methods that bridge the scales from quantum mechanics to the macroscale, including new interfaces between scales for concurrent coupling to minimize spurious reflections. Using these methods, he has developed software for the design and use of nano-particles in materials design, bio-nanotechnology, and drug delivery. (2) Development of new shell elements, arbitrary Eulerian-Lagrangian methods and explicit-implicit integration techniques that have significantly enhanced the accuracy and speed in software for crashworthiness and prototype simulations. (3) Development of new meshfree formulations, known as reproducing kernel particle methods, providing exceptional accuracy for the simulation of solids undergoing extremely large deformation. These contributions have been implemented in many commercial and laboratory software systems. Among them are: (1) Shell elements in DYNA3D, ABAQUS, LS-DYNA, ANSYS, and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) software; (2) Explicit/implicit methods in US Ballistic Laboratory EPIC-2/EPIC-3 programs, and ANL software; (3) Lagrangian-Eulerian methods adopted by ANL, Kawasaki, Mitsubishi, Ford Motors, and Grumman; (4) Various meshfree methods implemented by Sandia National Labs, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, General Motors, Ford Motors, Delphi, Ball Aerospace, and Caterpillar; (5) Multiscale methods adopted by Goodyear for the design of tires and by Sandia in their TAHOE code for multiscale analysis. Liu is the recipients of many major awards and honors that include: the 2009 ASME Dedicated Service Award, the 2007 ASME Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award, the 2007 USACM John von Neumann Medal, the 2004 Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Computational Mechanics Award, the 2002 IACM Computational Mechanics Award, the 2001 USACM Computational Structural Mechanics Award, the 1995 ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award, the 1985 ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal, the 1979 ASME Melville Medal (for best paper in the Journal of Applied Mechanics), the 1989 Thomas J. Jaeger Prize of the International Association for Structural Mechanics, and the 1983 Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, of the American Society of Automotive Engineers. Professor Liu obtained the B.S with the highest honor from the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle in 1976, and the M.S in 1977 and Ph.D. in 1981, both from the California Institute of Technology. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Illinois.
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  • Open details Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
    67
  • Open details International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
    36
  • Open details Computational Mechanics
    19
  • Open details American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pressure Vessels and Piping Division (Publication) PVP
    12
  • Open details Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
    11
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  • Open details Argonne National Laboratory
    15
  • Open details University of Cincinnati
    14
  • Open details UC Berkeley
    12
  • Open details California Institute of Technology
    10
  • Open details Sungkyunkwan University
    10
  • Open details Sandia National Laboratories, California
    9
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  • Open details Dong Qian
    14
  • Open details Jaehyun Chung
    12
  • Open details Shaofan Li
    11
  • Open details Rasim Aziz Uras
    10
  • Open details Xiaodong Wang
    7
  • Open details Gregory J Wagner
    7