Chair Professor
Jian LU
Dip.ing, DEA, Ph.D(UT Compiegne, France), HDR(Sc Dr, Paris VI)
E-mail: mmmelu@inet.polyu.edu.hk
Office: FG 617
Tel: 2766 6665
Fax: 2365 4703

Area of Specialization:
Integration of prestress and surface treatment in design, multi axial fatigue life prediction, nanomaterials, mechanics of advanced materials (biomaterial, nanomaterial, thermal spraying coating and thin film, composites)

From 1986 to 1994, he was a senior research engineer and the head of the laboratory (from 1990) of residual stress and coating adhesion at CETIM (French Technical of Mechanical Industry). Since 1994 he has been Professor, head of the department of mechanical systems engineering (1994-2004) and Director of the mechanical systems and concurrent engineering laboratory (CNRS-FRE2719) (20 faculty members) at the University of Technology of Troyes, France. His recent research interests are: residual stress, multiaxial fatigue, biomaterial, metal matrix composite, nanomaterial, plasma spraying coating and thin film. He has published about 300 papers in above fields. He is a member of Editorial board of the Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design, International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design. He has also served as an associate technical editor of Experimental Mechanics (International Journal of Society for Experimental Mechanics, USA, 1998-2001) and a member of Editorial board of the ACTA MECHINICA Sinica (2001-2004). He was a consultant expert for different worldwide leading companies in the field of Energy (Framatome, Alstom, EDF), Aerospace (EADS, Airbus, SNECMA), Automobile (Renault, PSA, Bosch) for about 20 years.

 
 

Selected Research Projects

 
Project 1 ENSPED
 
The activity of the ENSPED (European Network of Surface and Prestress Engineering and Design) leaded by Prof. Jian LU emphasises the building of a bridge between the fields of surface modification and prestressed processing in material engineering and CAD in mechanical engineering to find an appropriate way to approach this inter-disciplinary area. The objective of this project was to develop a global approach to use surface modification and prestressing for controlling and optimising important mechanical properties such as fatigue, wear and stress corrosion cracking. As applications, we can mention: heat treatment and thermochemical processing (quenching, carburizing, nitriding), mechanically treated surfaces (ultrasonic shot peening, shot peening, cold rolling), welding, machining etc¡K This project explored the way to introduce the surface modification and prestress processing in the design of mechanical components and structures. In fact, the development of a global approach with associated CAD-CAM tools is necessary to ease the collaboration between the engineers working on material choice, production design and quality control. Residual stress considerations are becoming important today for two reasons: the necessity for the designer to reduce the weight of the structure and keep the same safety level to be competitive and the introduction of multimaterials which induces residual stress. With the development of different experimental and numerical techniques, it is now possible to consider residual stress issues in the design office for the integrated design of mechanical components. A new approach of concurrent engineering applied to the design of mechanical components with the residual and applied stresses consideration will be developed. The partnership of this network was composed by four universities: University of Technology of Troyes (FR), Kassel University (DE), LULEA University (SE) and LINKOPING University (SE), which are leaders in Europe in different fields of residual stress problems and fourteen industries and industrial research centres which are major European actors in the field of aerospace industry: Aerospatiale (EADS) and SNECMA Moteurs (FR), Airbus British Aerospace (UK), car and truck industry: FIAT (IT), VOLVO and SCANIA (SE), ROBERT BOSCH (DE), energy industry: ABB (SE), FRAMATOME ANP (DE), WARTSILA (FI), mechanical industry: CETIM (FR), INASMET (ES), material supplier: HYDRO ALUMINIUM (NO), Instrumentation company: STRESSTECH (FI). So the industrial areas covered by the network are very large.
 
 
 
 
 
Project Generation of nanostructure and associated mechanical behaviours
 
In this project, a new surface restructuring process based on the SMAT (Surface Mechanical Attritions Treatment) was developed. The evidence obtained so far has already indicated that a nanostructured surface layer synthesized by means of the SMAT on metallic materials provides many unique opportunities in terms of both fundamental scientific research and technological applications, including the following:

Investigation of the strain-induced grain refinement mechanism on a broad grain size scale (from microns to nanometers);

Study of the structure/property relationship of a solid in a broad grain/cell size range (several nanometers ~ micrometers) in the SMAT sample;

The gradient structure in the surface layer enables porosity-free micro-samples with different grain sizes (in surface layers at different depths) having the same composition to be prepared for property measurements;

Development of a new multiscale approach to mechanical behavior simulation since not all of failure phenomena observed can be explained by classical continuum mechanics;

Enhancement of the surface mechanical, tribological, chemical and corrosion properties of bulk materialse.

 
 
 
 
 
 
Selected publications
(A1)
LU J., BOUHELIER C., LIEURADE H.P., BARALLE D., MIEGE B. and FLAVENOT J.F. Study of residual welding stress using the step-by-step hole drilling and the X-ray diffraction method, Welding in the world, vol. 33, n¢X 2, 1994, p. 118-128.
(A2)
WU Z., LU J., HAN B. Study of residual stress distribution by a combine method of moire interferometry and incremental hole drilling Part I : theory and Part II: implemantation applied mechanics, Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME, Dec. 1998, p. 837-850.
(A3)
LU K. and LU J. Surface nanocrystallization (SNC) of metallic materials - Presentation of the concept behind a new approach, J. Mater. Sci. Technol., Vol.15, no.3, 1999, p. 193-197.
(A4)
AKRACHE R. and LU J. 3D Calculations of high cycle fatigue life under out-of-phase multiaxial loading, Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, Vol. 22, July 1999, p. 527-534.
(A5)
WU Z., LU J. and GUO Y. A Study of Process-Induced Residual Stress in PBGA Packages, Journal of Electronic Packaging, ASME, Vol.122, Sept.2000, p. 262-266.
(A6)
HAN Y., XU K. and LU J. Dissolution response of hydroxyapatite coatings to residual stresses, J. of Biomedical Materials Research, 55, 4, June 2001, p.596-602.
(A7)
LU J. Prestress Engineering of Structural Material: A Global Design Approach to the Residual Stress Problem, Handbook of Residual Stress Formation and Distorsion of Steel, ASM, 2002, p. 11-26.
(A8)
TONG W.P., TAO N.R., WANG Z.B., LU J. and LU K. Nitriding iron at lower temperatures, Science, Jan. 2003, p. 686-688.
(A9)
NUSAIR KHAN A., LU J. Behavior of air plasma sprayed thermal barrier coatings, subject to intense thermal cycling, Surf. Coat. Tech., 166, 2003, p. 37-43.
(A10)
LU J., LU K. Surface Nanocrystallization (SNC) of Materials and its effect on Mechanical Behavior, Comprehensive Structural Integrity, Editors Milne, Ritchie, Karihaloo, Ed. Elsevier, vol. 8, 2003, p. 495-528.
(A11)
CAO Y.P., LU J., A new method to extract the plastic properties of metal materials from an instrumented spherical indentation loading curve, Acta Materialia, 52 (13): 4023-4032 AUG 2 2004.
(A12)
ZHU K.Y., VASSEL A., BRISSET F., LU K., LU J., Nanostructure Formation Mechanism of -Titanium using SMAT, Acta Materialia, 52 (14): 4101-4110 AUG 16 2004.
(A13)
YA M., MARQUETTE P., BELAHCENE F., LU J., Residual stresses in laser welded aluminium plate by use of ultrasonic and optical methods. Materials science and engineering A, 2004, vol.382, p. 257-264.
(A14)
CAO Y.P., LU J., Size-dependent sharp indentation-I: A closed-form expression of the indentation loading curve and II: A reverse algorithm to identify plastic properties of metallic materials¡¨, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Jan. 2005, vol. 53, pp33-62.
(A15)
WANG Z.B., LU J., LU K., Chromizing behaviors of a low carbon steel processed by means, ACTA MATERIALIA 53 (7): 2081-2089 APR 2005.
(A16)
CHEN X.H., LU J., LU L., LU K., Tensile properties of a nanocrystalline 316L austenitic stainless steel, Scripta Materialia, 52 (2005) 1039¡V1044, May 2005.
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