PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1982~1993 Assistant/Associate Professor/Professor, Dept. Civil Engng, Jiangxi Polytechnic University, China
93~present Professor/Yangtse Chair Professor, Dept. Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, China
07~present Concurrent Professor of Nanchang University, China, and Monash University, Australia
Five years Fellows or Visiting Prof.: Univ. Nottingham, UK; Inst. Mech. Grenoble, France; Tech. Univ. Aachen,
Germany; Max Plank Institute for Metals – Stuttgart, Germany; Univ. California – Riverside, USA;
Univ. Auckland, New Zealand, Chungkung Univ., Taiwan; Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS
Acta Mechanica, Acta Mechanica Sinica, Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica (Editor-in-Chief); Applield
Mathematics and Mechanics, IMA J. Applied Mathanics (Associate Editor), Int’l J. Applied
Mechanics Engineering, Int’l J. Non-Linear Mechanics, Int’l J. Solids & Structures, Mathematics and
Mechanics of Solids

AWARDS AND HONORS
First IJES Distinguished Paper Award (SES, USA), 1994; National Distinguished Young Scientists
Foundation, 1995; Research Achievement Award (YD Huo Education Foundation, Hong Kong),
1995; Yokoyama Foundation Distinguished Paper Award (Japan), 1996; The Prizes for Young
Scientists of China (11 winners not older than 45 biennially in China), 1996; National Outstanding
Specialist, 1998, National Natural Science Award 2nd Class (1st Awardee), 2004.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
(1) Nanomechanics, nano-devices, micro/nano- bionics; (2) mechanics of heterogeneous
materials, damage mechanics, constitutive equations (composites, polymers,
biomaterials, teeth, polycrystals, ceramics); (3) theory of representations for tensors and
tensor functions, mechanics of anisotropic behavior, rational mechanics.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (ZHENG QS* = CORRESPONDING AUTHOR)

REVIEW ARTICLE
［0］ Zheng QS (1994): Theory of representations for tensor functions — A unified invariant approach to
constitutive equations. Appl. Mech. Rev. 47, 545-587.
(1) NANOMECHANICS, NANODEVICES, MICRO/NANO-BIONICS
［1］ Wang LF, Zheng QS* (2007): Extreme anisotropy of graphite and single-walled carbon nanotube bundles.
Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 153113.
［2］ Deng F, Zheng QS*, Wang LF (2007): Effects of anisotropy, aspect ratio, and nonstraightness of carbon
nanotubes on thermal conductivity of carbon nanotube composites, Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 021914.
［3］ Wang LF, Zheng QS*, Liu JZ, Jiang Q (2005): Size dependence of the thin-shell model for carbon
nanotubes. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 105501
［4］ Zheng QS*, Yu Y, Zhao ZH (2005), Effects of Hydraulic Pressure on the Stability and Transition of Wetting
Modes of Superhydrophobic Surfaces, Langmuir 21, 12207
［5］ Liu H, Li SH, Zhai J, Li HJ, Zheng QS, Jiang L, Zhu DB (2004): Self-assembly of large-scale
micropatterns on aligned carbon nanotube films. Angewe Chemie-International Edition, 43(9): 1146-1149.
［6］ Guo WL, Guo YF, Gao H, Zheng QS, Zhong WY (2003): Energy dissipation in gigahertz oscillators from
multiwalled carbon nanotubes. Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 125501.
［7］ Liu JZ, Zheng QS*, Jiang Q (2003): Effect of bending instabilities on the measurements of mechanical
properties of multiwalled carbon nanotubes. Phys. Rev. B. 67, article 075414.
［8］ Zheng QS*, Jiang Q (2002): Multiwalled carbon nanotubes as gigahertz oscillators. Phys. Rev. Lett., 88,
article 045503.
［9］ Zheng QS*, Liu JZ, Jiang Q (2002): Excess van der Waals interaction energy of a multiwalled carbon
nanobube with an extruded core and the induced core oscillation. Phys. Rev. B, 65, article 245409.
［10］ Liu Z, Zheng QS*, Jiang Q (2001): Effect of a rippling mode on resonances of carbon nanotubes. Phys. Rev.
Lett. 86(21), 4843-4846.
(2) MECHANICS OF HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS AND MICROMECHANICS
［11］ Zheng QS*, Zhao ZH, Du DX (2006): Irreducible structure, symmetry and average of Eshelby’s tensor
fields in isotropic elasticity, J. Mech. Phys. Solids 54, 368–383.
［12］ Liu JZ, Zheng QS*, Wang LF, Jiang Q (2005): Mechanical properties of single-walled carbon nanotube
bundles as bulk materials. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 53, 123-142.
［13］ Ren Z-Y, Zheng QS* (2002): A quantitative study of minimum sizes of representative volume elements of
cubic polycrystals – numerical experiments. J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 50(4), 881-893.
［14］ Zheng QS*, Du D-X (2001): An explicit and universally applicable estimate for the effective properties of
multiphase composites which accounts for inclusion distribution. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 49(11), 2765-2788.
［15］ Zheng QS*, Chen T (1999): Generalized plane deformation of electromagnetic thermoelastic solids. Parts I
& II. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. A455, 1283-1299; 1301-1314.
［16］ Zheng QS*, Collins IF (1998): The relationship between damage variables and their evolution laws and
microstructural and physical properties. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. A454, 1469-1498
［17］ Chen M-X, Yang W, Zheng QS (1998): Simulation of crack tip superblunting in semi-crystalline polymers.
J. Mech. Phys. Solids 46(2), 337-356
［18］ Zheng QS*, Hwang K C (1997): Two-dimensional elastic compliance of materials with holes and
microcracks. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. A453, 353-364
［19］ Zheng QS*, Hwang K C (1996): Reduced dependence of defect compliance on matrix and inclusion elastic
properties in two-dimensional elasticity. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. A452, 2493-2507.
［20］ Chen M-X, Zheng QS, Yang W (1996): A micromechanical model of texture induced orthotropy in planar
crystalline polymers. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 44(2), 157-178.
(3) THEORY OF REPRESENTATIONS OF TENSOR FUNCTIONS & RATIONAL MECHANICS
［21］ Zou WN, Zheng QS* (2003): Maxwell's multipole representation of traceless symmetric tensors and its
application to functions of high order tensors. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. A459: 527-538.
［22］ Zheng QS*, Betten J (1995): On the tensor function representations of 2nd-order and 4th-order tensors:
Part I. ZAMM 75(4), 269-281.
［23］ Zheng QS*, Boehler JP (1994): The description, classification, and reality of material and physical
symmetries. Acta Mechanica 102, 73-89.
［24］ Zheng QS*, Betten J (1995): On the tensor function representations of 2nd-order and 4th-order tensors:
Part I. ZAMM 75(4), 269-281
［25］ Zheng QS (1993): Two-dimensional tensor function representations for all kinds of material symmetry.
Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. A443, 127-138.
［26］ Zheng QS*, Spencer AJM (1993): On the canonical representations for Kronecker power of orthogonal
tensors with applications to material symmetry problems. Int. J. Engng Sci. 31, 617-635.
［27］ Zheng QS (1993): On transversely isotropic, orthotropic and relative isotropic functions of symmetric
tensors, skew-symmetric tensors and vectors: Parts I – V. Int. J. Engng Sci. 31, 1399-1453.
［28］ Zheng QS*, Spencer AJM (1993): Tensors which characterize anisotropies. International Journal of
Engineering Science 31(5), 679-693.
［29］ Zheng QS*, Hwang K C (1992): On Cauchy's mean rotation. ASME J. Appl. Mech. 59, 405-410.
［30］ Zheng QS (1992): On the generalization of constitutive laws from their arotational forms. Acta Mechanica
91, 97-105