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Yuanli Bai

Associate Professor

Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: yuanli.bai@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-4548
Office: Engineering I Room 214
Website: Lab of Solid and Structure Mechanics
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Yuanli Bai is currently an associate professor at the UCF Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008. He obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Department of Automotive Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2000 and 2003, respectively. While at MIT, he worked under the supervision of Professor Tomasz Wierzbicki, the director of the impact and crashworthiness lab. Prior to joining UCF in 2011, he was a mechanical engineer at the General Electric Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York.

Bai’s current research is focused on plasticity, fracture and fatigue testing, analysis and simulation for various engineering materials, including lightweight metals, metallic matrix nano-composites, polymer matrix composites and soft tissue materials. He operates the Lab of Solid and Structure Mechanics under the MAE department. Bai has published numerous papers in the field's most highly rated journals and conference proceedings.

Research Interests: Solid Mechanics, Plasticity and Fracture, Impact and Crashworthiness, Lightweight Design, Multi-scale finite element analysis, Experimental techniques development

  • Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Mechanical Engineering
  • M.S. Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Vehicle Engineering
  • B.S. Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Automotive Engineering
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  • Zhou, L., Pan, H., Hyer, H., Park, S., Bai, Y., McWilliams, B., Cho, K., Sohn, Y.H., “Microstructure and Tensile Property of a Novel Al-Zn-Mg-Sc-Zr Alloy Additively Manufactured by Gas Atomization and Laser Powder Bed Fusion,” Scripta Materialia, Vol. 158 (2019) 24-28.

  • Jia, Y., Qiao, Y., Maung, A., Argueta-Morales, R., Norfleet, J., Bai, Y., Divo, E., Kassab, A.J., DeCampli, W.M, “Experimental Study of Anisotropic Stress/Strain Relationships of the Human Great Vessels”, ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 139(10), 101003, October 2017.

  • Qiao, Y., Bisagni, C., Bai, Y., “Experimental investigation and numerical simulation of unidirectional carbon fiber composite under multi-axial loading”, Composites Part B: Engineering, September 2017, 124: 190-206.

  • Qiao, Y., Liu, J., Jia, Y., Xu, C., An, L., Bai, Y., “Study on Coexistence of Brittle and Ductile Fractures in Nano Reinforcement Composites under Different Loading Conditions”, International Journal of Fracture, 2017, 204 (2): 205-224.

  • Algarni, M., Choi, Y., Bai, Y., “A unified material model for multiaxial ductile fracture and extremely low cycle fatigue of Inconel 718”, International Journal of Fatigue, 2017, 96: 162-177.

  • Jia, Y., Bai, Y., “Ductile fracture prediction for metal sheets using all-strain-based modified Mohr-Coulomb model”, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2016, 115: 516–531.

  • Pan, H., Liu, J., Choi, Y., Xu, C., Bai, Y., and Atkins, A.G., “Zones of material separation in simulations of cutting”, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2016, 115: 262-279.

  • Shabahang, S., Tao, G., Kaufman, J., Qiao, Y., Wei, L., Bouchenot, T., Gordon, A., Fink, Y., Bai, Y., Hoy, R., and Abouraddy, A., “Controlled fragmentation of multimaterial fibers and films via polymer cold-drawing”, Nature, June, 2016.

  • Liu, J., Bai, Y., and Xu, C., “Evaluation of Ductile Fracture Models on Finite Element Simulation of Metal Cutting Process”, Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering (ASME Transaction), vol. 136, February 2014

  • Bai, Y., Atkins, A.G., “Tension and Shear Cracking During Indentation of Ductile Materials by Opposed Wedges”, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2012, 96

  • Bai, Y., Wierzbicki, T. "Application of Extended Mohr-Coulomb Criterion to Ductile Fracture", International Journal of Fracture, January 2010, 161(1).

  • Bai, Y., Wierzbicki, T., “A New Model of Metal Plasticity and Fracture with Pressure and Lode Dependence”, International Journal of Plasticity, 2008, 24(6).

  • Wierzbicki, T., Bao, Y., Lee, Y., and Bai, Y., “Calibration and evaluation of seven fracture models”, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2005, 47(4-5).