Jian Cao

Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Cardiss Collins Professorship, Mechanical Engineering
Associate Vice President of Research, Office of the Associate Vice President for Research
Core, Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD Program
Core, Mechanical Engineering PhD Program
Core, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics PhD Program
Center Director, NU Initiative for Manufacturing, Science and Innovation

Phone847/467-1032
Emailjcao@northwestern.edu

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Education/Academic qualification

Mechanical Engineering, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

… → 1995

Mechanical Engineering, MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

… → 1992

Materials Science and Engineering & Automatic Control, BS, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

… → 1989

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Grants 2003 2021

10 Active
48 Finished

Rapid Electropulsing‐Assisted Ultrasonic Dieless Incremental Forming with in‐situ Surface Treatment

Cao, J. & Dravid, V. P.

Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials

9/1/18 → 8/31/21

Project: Research project

surface treatment

ultrasonics

titanium alloys

mechanical properties

microstructure

Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for DEmocratizing Manufacturing Accessibility for Designers (DEMAND)

Birnbaum, L. A., Cao, J., Carruthers, B. G. & Ehmann, K.

National Science Foundation

9/1/18 → 8/31/19

Project: Research project

Engineering research

Planning

Ecosystems

Innovation

Participant support costs Subproject for Institution # SP0050101

Cao, J.

National Science Foundation

9/1/18 → 8/31/19

Project: Research project

Engineering research

Costs

Ecosystems

Innovation

MASTER: Multiscale and data-driven modeling platform development with applications in advanced material simulation

Cao, J., Fleming, M. A., Liu, W. K. & Wagner, G. J.

Beijing Institute of Collaborative Innovation

12/1/17 → 5/31/19

Project: Research project

Data structures

Polymer matrix composites

High strength steel

Composite materials

Testing

Correcting and Coating Thin Walled X-ray Optics via a Combination of Controlled Film Deposition and Magnetic Smart Materials

Cao, J., Chung, Y. & Ulmer, M. P.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

1/11/17 → 1/10/20

Project: Research project

smart materials

geometrical optics

coatings

x rays

mirrors

Research Output 1993 2019

A calibration method for overconstrained spatial translational parallel manipulators

Li, F., Zeng, Q., Ehmann, K., Cao, J. & Li, T., Jun 1 2019, In : Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. 57, p. 241-254 14 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Parallel Manipulator

Kinematic Model

Manipulators

Calibration

Robots

Acceleration strategies for explicit finite element analysis of metal powder-based additive manufacturing processes using graphical processing units

Mozaffar, M., Ndip-Agbor, E., Lin, S., Wagner, G. J., Ehmann, K. & Cao, J., Jan 1 2019, In : Computational Mechanics.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

3D printers

Powder metals

Powder

Manufacturing

Metals

1 Citation (Scopus)

A new approach for analyzing the temperature rise and heat partition at the interface of coated tool tip-sheet incremental forming systems

Zhang, X., He, T., Miwa, H., Nanbu, T., Murakami, R., Liu, S., Cao, J. & Wang, Q. J., Feb 1 2019, In : International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 129, p. 1172-1183 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

partitions

heat

frequency response

Frequency response

Temperature

An Experimental and Numerical Study of Dieless Water Jet Incremental Microforming

Shi, Y., Zhang, W., Cao, J. & Ehmann, K., Apr 1 2019, In : Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Transactions of the ASME. 141, 4, 041008.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Water

Cones

Sheet metal

Numerical models

Geometry

A numerical Bayesian-calibrated characterization method for multiscale prepreg preforming simulations with tension-shear coupling

Zhang, W., Bostanabad, R., Liang, B., Su, X., Zeng, D., Bessa, M. A., Wang, Y., Chen, W. & Cao, J., Jan 20 2019, In : Composites Science and Technology. 170, p. 15-24 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Preforming

Carbon fiber reinforced plastics

Thermosets

Computational methods

Carbon fibers