Assistant Civil Engineering

Zi-zi Lu

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Objective

Obtain a summer 2010 internship or a full time job in the field of

Mechanical Engineering

Education

Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 2008.01-

present

Ph.D in Civil Engineering

Cumulative GPA: 3.80/4.0

Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

2005.09-2007.03

Ph.D in Structure Engineering

Cumulative GPA: 3.70/4.0

Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

2002.09-2005.06

M.S. in Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Engineering,

Cumulative GPA: 3.68/4.0

Engineer Command Technology Institute of PLA, Xuzhou, China

1998.07-2002.06

B.S. in Civil Engineering.

Cumulative GPA: 3.63/4.0

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Validation and uncertainty management of prognostic algorithms (NASA)

2008 - 2011

My task: Fatigue damage prognosis under multiaxial loading

Rotorcraft damage tolerance risk assessment and management (FAA)

2007 - 2011

My task: Crack uncertainty propagation through crack growth analysis/finite

element method

Innovative approaches for improving progressive damage modeling and

structural life prediction of airframes (NAVAIR through GEM)

2009- 2010

My task: Fatigue life prediction model development

Working Experience

Research Assistant

Department of Civil Engineering, Clarkson University

2008.01-Present

. Developed the physical models for fatigue analysis

. Numerical analysis by (Fortran, Matlab, ANSYS, ABAQUS)

. Complete formal monthly/quarterly technique progress report to

FAA/NASA

. Design and conduct experimental fatigue testing (Hydraulic testing,

SEM testing)

Project Underwriter

Pingan Property & Casualty Insurance Company of China, LTD

2007.04-2007.11

. Investigated and evaluated the possible risk during the construction

of the large engineering projects such as subway, harbor tunnel, off-

shore project etc.

Lecturer (part-time job)

Department of Civil Engineering, Qindao College

2007.03-2007.05

. Planned lesson and gave lectures on Steel Structure, including the

basic theory, steel structures' design, and the steel structure's

application

Teaching assistant (Structural dynamics)

Department of Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University

2006.03-2007.01

. Provided instructional support to the teacher and helped students to

solve questions

Teaching assistant (Structural mechanics)

Department of Civil Engineering, Ocean University of China

2003.09-2004.12

INTERNSHIP

Assistant Structural Designer

Qingdao Architectural Design & Research Institute Co.. Ltd.

2005.06-2005.08

. Structure design using AutoCAD and performed stress analysis of

structures using PKPM and SAP2000

Assistant Manager

Dress Department of Qingdao Baisheng Retail Co.. Ltd.

2002.07-2002.08

. Coordinated the business of the dress department

. Organized the promotion events

Assistant Structural Designer

Qingdao Port & Bay Institute Co.. Ltd.

2002.02-2002.04

. Read and revised the structural design drawings

PUBLICATIONS

1. Zizi Lu, Yongming Liu, A comparative study between the two-parameter

approach and an incremental crack model for fatigue crack growth

prediction. (Submitted).

2. Zizi Lu, Yongming Liu, Concurrent fatigue crack growth simulation

using extended finite element method (Submitted).

3. Zizi Lu, Yongming Liu, Small time scale fatigue crack growth analysis.

International Journal of Fatigue (In press).

4. Zizi Lu, Yibing Xiang, Yongming Liu, Crack growth-based fatigue life

prediction using an equivalent initial flaw model. Part II: multiaxial

loading, International Journal of Fatigue. 2009,32(2):376-381

5. Yibing Xiang, Zizi Lu, Yongming Liu, Crack growth-based fatigue life

prediction using an equivalent initial flaw model. Part I: uniaxial

loading. International Journal of Fatigue. 2009,32(2): 341-349

6. He, J., Lu, Z. and Liu, Y., "A new method for concurrent multi-scale

fatigue damage prognosis", International workshop on structural health

monitoring, San Francisco, CA, September, 2009

7. Lu, Z., Liu, Y., "Crack growth-based multiaxial fatigue life

prediction", 12th international conference on fracture, Ottawa,

Canada, 2009.

8. Lu, Z. and Liu, Y., "A new formulation for multi-scale fatigue damage

modeling", Joint ASCE-ASME-SES conference on mechanics and materials,

Blacksburg, VA, 2009.

9. Lu, Z. and Liu, Y., "An Incremental Crack Growth Model for Multi-Scale

Fatigue Analysis", 50th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural

Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Palm Springs, May, 2009.

10. Lu Zizi, Wang Yinbang, Chen Longzhu, New Boundary Element Method for

Torsion Problems with Curvilinear Cracks (in Chinese). Engineering

Mechanics.2007, 24(11)

11. Wang Yinbang, Lu Zizi, A New Boundary Element Method for Torsion

Problems of a Cylinder with Curvilinear Cracks, Applied Mathematics

and Mechanics (English Edition). 2005,12(26):1532-1538

12. Wang Yinbang, Lu Zizi, A New Boundary Element Method for Torsion

Problems of a Cylinder with Curvilinear Cracks (in Chinese). Applied

Mathematics and Mechanics 2005,26(12):1387-1393

13. Wang Yinbang, Lu Zizi, Effect of an Elastic Square Inclusion on a

Crack Tip's Stress Intensity Factor (In Chinese). Journal of Lanzhou

University, 2003,39(6):19-21.

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