Liwenchao Associate professor

• Department: School of Civil Engineering
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• Career: Associate professor
• Degree: PhD
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• Graduate School: Chang an University
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Wenchao Li completed his PhD in the School of Civil Engineering at Chang'an University. In 2014-2015, he was awarded the CSC scholarship and spent a year as a visiting PhD research student in the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering at the University of Sheffield.

Currently, Wenchao Li is an associate professor and serves as a master's supervisor in the School of Civil Engineering at Chang'an University.

Wenchao Li's primary research focus is on the investigation of mechanical properties of high-strength lightweight metallic materials and the development of multiaxial constitutive models, along with their numerical implementation algorithms.

His research efforts in these areas have resulted in some scientific articles published in well-regarded international peer-reviewed scientific journals, such as Thin-Walled Structures, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Engineering Failure Analysis, and Journal of Structural Steel Research. He is currently the principal investigator for a Chinese National Natural Science Foundation project and a Natural Science Foundation program of Shaanxi Province.

•       Mechanical Properties of High Strength Structural Steel

•       Elastoplastic Constitutive Model and Numerical Implementation Algorithm for Alloy Materials

•       Ductile Fracture Prediction Methods

•       Application of Fracture Mechanics Method in Engineering Failure Analysis

Undergraduate courses:

1. Structural Stability Theory

2. Basic Principles of Steel Structures

Graduate courses:

1. Fracture Mechanics (PhD course)

2. Fracture Mechanics and Damage Mechanics (Master's course)

Research Project

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China, 51908044, 2020/1-2022/12.

2. Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China, 2020JQ-358, 2020/1-2021/12.

3. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, CHD, 300102282107, 2022/1-2023/12.

Thesis

[1] Wenchao Li, Yuan Jing, Guohua Xing, Zhongguo John Ma. A lode-dependent plasticity model for high-strength structural steel. Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 2023, 211:108202.

[2] Wenchao Li, Yuan Jing, Tianhua Zhou, Guohua Xing. A new ductile fracture model for structural metals considering effects of stress state, strain hardening and micro-void shape. Thin-Walled Structures, 2022, 176:109280.

[3] Wenchao Li, Harm Askes, Luca Susmel. Notch failure versus interior failure for mixed-mode in-plane loading. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2018, 150:208-221.

[4] Wenchao Li, Luca Susmel, Harm Askes, Fangfang Liao, Tianhua Zhou. Assessing the integrity of steel structural components with stress raisers using the Theory of Critical Distances. Engineering Failure Analysis, 2016, 70:73-89.

[5] Wenchao Li, Fangfang Liao, Tianhua Zhou, Harm Askes. Ductile fracture of Q460 steel: Effects of stress triaxiality and Lode angle. Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 2016, 123:1-17.

[6] Tianhua Zhou, Yan Lu, Wenchao Li, Hanheng Wu. End condition effect on distortional buckling of cold-formed steel columns with arbitrary length. Thin-Walled Structures, 2017, 117:282-293.

[7] Yan Lu, Wenchao Li, Tianhua Zhou, Hanheng Wu. Novel local buckling formulae for cold-formed C-section columns considering end condition effect. Thin-Walled Structures, 2017, 116:265-276.

[8] Yan Lu, Tianhua Zhou, Wenchao Li, Hanheng Wu. Experimental investigation and a novel direct strength method for cold-formed built-up I-section columns. Thin-Walled Structures, 2017, 112:125-139.