主要从事管道结构断裂力学分析、聚合物复合材料的银纹化问题和金属3D打印的研究工作，包括断裂力学理论分析、本构建模、有限元（扩展有限元）数值模拟及计算流体力学的多相场耦合分析等方面。目前已在Ocean Engineering, Acta Mechanics, Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures, Philosophical Magazine等一流国际杂志上发表论文20余篇，论文被引总数230余次。

教育背景 2012.01-2016.04，南洋理工大学，力学， 博士 2006.09-2009.04，河海大学，流体力学系，硕士 2002.09-2006.06，河海大学，应用物理系，学士

工作履历 2019.12- 至今，重庆大学，航空航天学院，副教授、硕导 2015.11-2019.12，南洋理工大学，机械与宇航工程学院，博士后 2009.08-2012.01，南洋理工大学，新加坡地球观测与研究所，研究助理

研究领域 固体力学，管道腐蚀疲劳断裂分析 聚合物复合材料银纹及微裂纹断裂分析 计算流体力学，金属3D打印数值模拟

代表性学术文章 YM Zhang, ZM Xiao, M. Fan. Fatigue investigation on railway wheel steel with white etching layer. International journal of steel structures (2020), 20: 80-88. YM Zhang, WG Zhang, M Fan and ZM Xiao. On the mechanical behaviours of a craze in particulate-polymer composites. Philosophical Magazine (2018), 98 (15): 1376-1396. YM Zhang, ZM Xiao and J Luo. Fatigue crack growth investigation on offshore pipelines with three-dimensional interacting cracks. Geoscience Frontiers (2018), 9 (6): 1689-1697. YM Zhang, WG Zhang, M Fan and ZM Xiao. Stress investigation on a cracked craze interacting with a near-by circular inclusion in polymer composites. Acta Mech (2017), 228: 1213-1228. YM Zhang, M Fan, ZM Xiao, WG Zhang. Fatigue analysis on offshore pipelines with embedded cracks. Ocean Engineering (2016), 117: 45-56. YM Zhang, TK Tan, ZM Xiao, WG Zhang and MZ Ariffin. Failure assessment on offshore girth welded pipelines due to corrosion defects. Fatigue Fract Engng Mater Struct (2016), 39: 453-466. YM Zhang, MZ Ariffin, ZM Xiao, W.G. Zhang and Z.H. Huang. Nonlinear elastic-plastic stress investigation for two interacting 3-D cracks in offshore pipelines. Fatigue Fract Engng Mater Struct (2015), 38: 540-550. YM Zhang, ZM Xiao and WG Zhang. On 3-D crack problems in offshore pipeline with large plastic deformation. Theor. Appl. Fract. Mech. (2014), 67-68: 22-28. YM Zhang, ZM Xiao, WG Zhang and ZH Huang. Strain-based CTOD estimation formulations for fracture assessment of offshore pipelines subjected to large plastic deformation. Ocean Engineering (2014), 91: 64-72. YM Zhang, DK Yi, ZM Xiao, ZH Huang and SB Kumar. Elastic-plastic fracture analyses for pipeline girth welds with 3D semi-elliptical surface cracks subjected to large plastic bending. Int. J. Press. Vessels Piping (2013), 105-106: 90-102. M Fan, YM Zhang and ZM Xiao. Small scale yielding analysis for a disclination-nucleated Zener-Stroh crack interacting with a circular inclusion. International Journal of Damage Mechanics (2017), 26(4): 541-559. M Fan, YM Zhang and ZM Xiao. The interface effect of a nano-inhomogeneity on the fracture behavior of a crack and the nearby edge dislocation. International Journal of Damage Mechanics (2017), 26(3): 480-497. Wengang Zhang, Yanmei Zhang and Anthony T.C. Goh. Multivariate adaptive regression splines for inverse analysis of soil and wall properties in braced excavation. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology (2017), 64: 24-33. Wengang Zhang, Anthony T.C. Goh, Yanmei Zhang, Yumin Chen and Yang Xiao. Assessment of soil liquefaction based on capacity energy concept and multivariate adaptive regression splines. Engineering Geology (2015), 188: 29-37.