Personal Information

Personal Information

Name, first name:     Zhai, Zhanyu

Current position:     Associate Professor

Business address: College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Central South University, 410083 Changsha, China;

Email:             zhanyuzhai@csu.edu.cn

Phone:             +86 (0)15116252375

Webpage:           http://cmee.csu.edu.cn/bk/Blog.aspx?id=dizhanyu

Education Background

10.2012 – 06.2018Doctor of Engineering

                Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany  

09.2007-06.2010  Master of Engineering

Central South University, P.R. China

09.2003-06.2007   Bachelor of Engineering

Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, P.R. China

Teaching Experience

▪ Injection molding technology (Process principle machine setup)

Research Areas of Interest

Advanced manufacturing technology for lightweight materials, Fracture mechanisms, In-service mechanical behavior

Professional Activities

▪ Invited speaker, International conference on advanced molding technology and materials processing, 2019

▪ Member  of  Society for the advancement of material and process engineering (SAMPE)

Selected Research Projects

Injection molding of continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites based on using direct resistance heating to carbon fiber, Project number: 51905552 ,National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC),2020.01-2022.12.

Selected Key Publications

1 Zhanyu Zhai*, Bingyan Jiang, Dietmar Drummer. Temperature-dependent mechanical behavior of quasi-unidirectional E-glass fabric reinforced polypropylene composites under off-axis tensile loading. Composites Part B-Engineering, 148 (2018): 276-285.
2. Zhanyu Zhai*, Bingyan Jiang, Dietmar Drummer. Tensile creep behavior of quasi-unidirectional E-glass fabric reinforced polypropylene composites. Polymers, 10 (2018).
3. Zhanyu Zhai*, Bingyan Jiang, Dietmar Drummer. Strain rate-dependent mechanical behavior of quasi-unidirectional E-glass fabric reinforced polypropylene composites under off-axis tensile loading. Polymer Testing, 69 (2018): 276-285.
4. Zhanyu Zhai*, Bingyan Jiang, Dietmar Drummer. Characterization of nonlinear response in quasi-unidirectional E-glass fabric reinforced polypropylene composites under off-axis tensile loading. Polymer Testing, 63 (2017): 521-529.
5. Zhanyu Zhai*, Christian Groeschel, Dietmar Drummer. Tensile behavior of quasi-unidirectional glass fiber/polypropylene composites at room and elevated temperatures. Polymer Testing, 54 (2016): 126-133.
6. Zhanyu Zhai*, Christian Groeschel, Dietmar Drummer. Investigating the in-plane mechanical behavior of single-ply quasi-unidirectional glass fiber/polypropylene composites. Journal of Polymer Engineering, 37(2017): 401-409.
7. Zhanyu Zhai*, Bingyan Jiang, Dietmar Drummer. Nonlinear damage-viscoelastic-viscoplastic material model for quasi-unidirectional woven composites subjected to tensile loading. Polymers, 10 (2018)
8. Yang Zhao, Zhanyu Zhai, Dietmar Drummer. Thermal conductivity of aluminosilicate- and aluminum oxide-filled thermosets for injection molding: Effect of filler content, filler size and filler geometry. Polymers, 10 (2018).