Yong Zhang

Biography

"Yong Zhang is a PhD student (B.Sc., Engineering Mechanics, CUMT, China, 2014 and M.Sc. Engineering Mechanics, HIT, China, 2016) focusing on solid mechanics and optimization in Mechanical Engineering of Delft University of Technology. From September 2016, Yong started the PhD project on “Design and Optimization of Instability-Induced Metamaterials”. Metamaterials, more related to structural elements rather than constituent materials, have been mainly focused due to novel function and behaviour. As part of metamaterials, new structured materials, often appearing as lattice type structures, could help in adaptively in motion and energy related applications, for instance, positioning and energy dissipation etc. One part of these kind of metamaterials is the bi-stability/multi-stability, which represents self-stable configuration without energy inputs and low energy consumption. In terms of multi-stability, a large amount of structures are related to instability/buckling property, which is generally avoided in engineering problems. Recently, an increasing interest has emerged into taking the instability as a favourable behaviour for smart structure design. "

Research Interest

Architected Materials