Prof. Yu Shi is a Research Professor of Smart Composite Structure and lead of Chester Smart Composite Group (CSCG).
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About Prof Yu Shi
Prof. Yu Shi is Research Professor of Smart Composite Structure and lead of Chester Smart Composite Group (CSCG). He was reader (Associate Professor), Senior Lecturer, Lecturer between 11/2015 – 07/2019 in University of Chester. He has secured £550k external funding (Innovate UK) and around £350k internal funding for PhDs as Principal Investigator (PI). He is currently supervising four PhDs, three PhDs joining since 02/2019 by Vice-Chancellor’s scholarship, and one PhD is taking Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) for joint-PhD supervision with Dalian University of Technology for two years. He was involved in a funded project as an investigator, up to £900k (2015 onwards), and £1.5M as a researcher (2009-2015). He has around 50 research publications by peer-reviewed journals and international conferences and one patent. He set up Chester Smart Composite Group and leads three international joint research labs with Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Xidian and Xi’an Jiaotong University. He has been working and collaborating with more than 30 home and international universities and over 50 companies and four Catapults in the UK.
Prior to joining Chester, he was awarded his PhD degree by the University of Sheffield. He worked on damage evaluation and structural integrity of advanced composite materials used in aircraft since MEng (2007), especially with study on the numerical simulation to predict multi-damage mechanisms of composite structures by finite element method with experimental validation like X-ray, C-Scan and CT-Scanning and analytical prediction (fracture mechanics, material mechanics) for his PhD work in two years and 10 months. He worked for The University of Sheffield, The University of Exeter and AFRC as postdoctoral researcher between 2013 and 2015. His research interests are additive manufacturing of composite, damage assessment of composite, finite element modelling on static and dynamic behaviour of composite (impact, crashing), multifunctional composites, energy harvesting, structural health monitoring and machining of composites for future lightweight electric automotive, rail vehicles, aircraft and renewable energy.
Prof. Yu Shi has successfully secured the Innovate UK funding as PI for:
- “Self-sensing wind turbine composite blades for structural health monitoring (SMART BLADE)” for Jiangsu-UK industrial challenge programme with total budget of £500k.
- “Autonomous sensing for wheel alignment (AutoAlign)” Innovate UK: £50k for phase 1
Teaching
Engineering Control – Lab Leader
Dr Yu Shi is delivering modules for 3rd year undergraduate and MEng courses. He is module leader as below
- SE6005 Finite element analysis
- SE7005 Applied finite element analysis
- SE6029/7018 Composite science and technology
Research
Prof. Yu Shi is specialised in composite structures and computational damage prediction of composite materials, machining and processing of thermoset and thermoplastic composite, drilling, cutting and welding joining technology. He is also interested in developing the multifunctional composite structures that integrate and inkjet print the sensors and energy harvesters etc., for a series of functionalities for aerospace, aircraft, automotive, rail, offshore renewable energy and healthcare industries.
Published Work
Selected Publications
Journals
- Jia Y, Wei X, Pu J, Xie P, Wen T, Wang C, Lian P, Xue S, Shi Y. A numerical feasibility study of kinetic energy harvesting from lower limb prosthetics. Energies 2019; 12(20), 3824.
- Pan L, Pang X, Wang F, Huang H, Shi Y, Tao J. Effect of surface micro-pits on mode-II fracture toughness of Ti-6Al-4V/PEEK interface. Composite Structure 2019; 229(1): 111333.
- Alsaadi A, Shi Y, Jia Y. Delamination detection via reconstructed frequency response function of composite structures. Processdings of the 13th International conference on damage assessment of structures 2019; 837-43.
- Lian P, Wang C, Xue S, Qian X, Shi Y, Jia Y, Xiang B, Wang Y, Yan Y. Surface adjustment strategy for a large radio telescope with adjustable dual reflectors. IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation 2019.
- Wang C, Wang X, Xu Q, Wang N, Zheng Y, Du B, Lian P, Xue S, Yan Y, Duan Y, Shi Y, Jia Y. Preliminary study of regulation technology of wind field distribution on QTT site based on test of equivalent wind field. Scientia sinica physics, mechanica&Astronomica 2019; 49: 099515.
- Wang C, Lei T, Yan Y, Xu Q, Wang N, Zheng Y, Du B, Lian P, Xue S, Duan Y, Shi Y, Jia Y. Real-time position calculation method for large-diameter radio telescope panel using angle sensor. Scientia sinica physics, mechanica&Astronomica 2019; 49: 099506.
- Alsaadi A, Tao J, Pan L, Jia Y, Shi Y. Vibration energy harvesting of multifunctional carbon fibre composite laminate structures. Composite Science and Technology 2019; 178: 1-10.
- Peiyuan Lian, Congsi Wang, Binbin Xiang, Yu Shi, Song Xue. Gradient-basedoptimization method for producing a contoured beam with single-fed reflector antenna. Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2019, 30(1): 22-29.
- Jia Y, Wei X, Xu L, Wang C, Lian P, Xue S, Al-Saadi A, Shi Y. Multiphysics vibration FE model of piezoelectric macro fibre composite on carbon fibre composite structures. Composite Part B 2019; 161: 376-85.
- Jia Y, Li S, Shi Y . An analytical and numerical study of magnetic spring suspension with energy recovery capabilities. Energies 2018; 11: 3126.
- Pan L, Lv Y, Wang Y, Roy N, Duan L, Hu J, Ding W, Ma W, Tao J, Shi Y. Enhancement in interfacial adhesion of Ti/polyetheretherketone by electrophoretic deposition of graphene oxide[J],Polymer Composites,2018, DOI: 10.1002/pc.24955
- Pan L, Zhang A, Zheng Z, Duan L, Zhang L, Shi Y, Tao J. Enhancing interfacial strength between AA5083 and cryogenic adhesive via anodic oxidation and silanization. International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives 2018; 84: 317-24.
- Shi Y, Jia Y. Multimodal shear wave deicing using fibre piezoelectric actuator on composite for aircraft wings. IEEE/ASME Transactions on mechatronics 2018. 23(5): 2090-98.
- Shi Y, Soutis C. Modelling low velocity impact induced damage in composite laminates. Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Modern Processes 2017.
- Liu Q, Xu X, Ma J, Shi Y, Hui D. Lateral crushing and bending response of CFRP square tube filled with aluminium honeycomb. Composite part B 2017; 118: 104-15.
- Shi Y, Hallett S, Zhu M. Energy harvesting behaviour for aircraft composites structures using macro-fibre composite: Part I-Integration and experiment. Composite Structures 2017; 160: 1279-86..
- Shi Y, Soutis C. Modelling transverse matrix cracking and splitting of cross-ply composite laminates under four point bending. Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics 2015; 83: 73-81.
- Shi Y, Pinna C, Soutis C. Modelling impact damage in composite laminates: A simulation of intra- and inter-laminar cracking. Composite Structures 2014; 114:10-9.
- Shi Y, Pinna C, Soutis C. Interface Cohesive Elements to Model Matrix Crack Evolution in Composite Laminates. Applied Composite Materials 2014; 21(1): 57-70.
- Shi Y, Swait T, Soutis C. Modelling damage evolution in composite laminates subjected to low velocity impact. Composite Structures 2012; 94: 2902-13.
- Shi Y. Soutis C. A finite element analysis of impact damage in composite laminates. Aeronautical Journal 2012; 116(1186): 1331-47.
Book Chapter
- Shi Y, Pinna C, Soutis C. Chapter 5: Low-velocity impact of composite laminates: damage evolution. Dynamic Deformation, Damage and Fracture in Composite Materials and Structures. Woodhead, 2016.
Conference:
- Shi Y (keynote speaker). Damage modelling of composite and application of multifunctional composites. 4th composite workshop at Manchester, 06.2019.
- Alsaadi A, Shi Y, Jia Y. Delamination detection via reconstructed frequency response function of composite structures. DAMAS, Porto, 07.2019
- Xu L, Shi Y, Wei X, Jie P, Jia Y. Multi-mode vibration detection for delamination of carbon fibre composite plate. ICCM22, Melbourne, 08. 2019
- Yang P, Jia Y, Wei X, Shi Y. Multifunctional composite with printed sensors. ICCM22, Melbourne, 08. 2019
- Wen T, Jia Y, Shi Y. Vibrational energy harvesting of multifunctional composite blade for offshore wind turbine. ICCM22, Melbourne, 08. 2019
- Alsaadi A, Shi Y, Jia Y. A vibration-based structural health monitoring system for GFRP laminates. ICCM22, Melbourne, 08. 2019
- Shi Y, Soutis C. Numerical modelling of matrix cracking, splitting and delamination in composite laminates using cohesive zone elements. 6th European conference on computational mechanics (ECCM 6), Glasgow, 06.2018.
- Shi Y, McCarthy E, Soutis C. Finite element analysis of notch sensitivity in unconventional aerospace laminates with novel ply angles and stacking sequences. 5th Aircraft Structural Design Conference, Manchester, UK, October 2016.
- Shi Y, McCarthy E, Soutis C. Investigation of pin-loaded aerospace laminates. ICCE-24, Haikou, China, July 2016
- Shi Y, Zhu M. Novel integration approaches to macro fibre composite onto aircraft used carbon fibre/epoxy laminate for improvement of efficiency of energy harvesting. 10th Energy Harvesting Workshop. Virginia, USA, September 2015.
- Shi Y, Pinna C, Soutis C. Modelling impact damage characteristics of composite laminates accounting for matrix cracking and splitting failure modes. The 4th Canadian conference on nonlinear solid mechanics (CanCNSM 2013), Montreal, July 2013.
- Leonard F, Shi Y, Pinna C, Soutis C, Withers PJ. Impact damage characterisation of fibre/metal laminates by X-ray computed tomography. The conference on industrial computed tomography 2014 (ICT 2014), Austria, 2014.
- Shi Y, Pinna C, Soutis C. Modelling the transverse matrix cracking and splitting of composite laminates using cohesive elements. Deformation and fracture of composites (DFC-12) & Structural integrity and multi-scale modelling (SI-6), Cambridge, April 2013.
- Shi Y, Soutis C. Modelling low velocity impact damage in composite laminates. 10th international conference on durability of composite systems, Brussels, September 2012.
Qualifications
BEng(Hons), MEng(Hons), PhD, FHEA