X. Frank Xu

Assistant Professor – Mechanics/Materials/Structures

Department of Civil, Environmental & Ocean Engineering
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA
Tel: (201) 216-8711 Fax: (201) 216-8739
Office: Rocco 307 Email: xxu1@stevens.edu

Education & Experience

Assistant Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2005~Present
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, 2001~2005
M.S., Civil Engineering, The University of Akron, 1999~2001
M.Sc., Offshore Engineering, The Robert Gordon University, 1998~1999
Structural Engineer, Shanghai, China, 1993~1998
B.Eng., Hydraulic Structure, Tsinghua University, China, 1993

Awards & Honors

K.J. Bathe Award, 2010
US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) Young Investigator Travel Fellowship, 2008
Young Principal Investigator Award, Department of Energy, 2006
ASCE ExCEEd Fellow, 2006
Finalist, the 17^th Annual Robet J. Melosh Competition for the Best Student Paper in Finite Element Analysis, 2005
Member, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, 2003
Meyerhoff Fellow, The Johns Hopkins University, 2001
Richard D. Hickman Travel Award, The Johns Hopkins University, 2001
M.Sc. with Distinction, The Robert Gordon University, Scotland,1999

Research Interests

· Multiscale Mechanics & Computation

· Micromechanics

· Statistical Fracture/Damage Mechanics

· Stochastic Dynamics

· Uncertainty Quantification of Engineering Systems

Publications

Course

· Ce681 - Finite Element Method in Engineering Mechanics

· Ce484 – Concrete structures

Links

Symposium - Multiscale Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification of Materials, Topic 6, Track 9, 2012 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition,Nov 9-15,2012, Houston, TX
Session - Multiscale Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification of Heterogeneous Materials, The Eleventh International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 4-7 September 2012
Symposium - Multiscale Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification of Complex Materials: Theories and Computational Methods, 2011 ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials (McMAT) Conference
Minisymposium - Multiscale Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification of Heterogeneous Materials, 10^th US Congress on Computational Mechanics, 2009
Session - Multiscale and Stochastic Modeling of Porous Media, The Fourth Biot Conference on Poromechanics (New York City, June 8~10, 2009)
Minisymposium - Multiscale Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification of Heterogeneous Materials [ID:150], 8^th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, WCCM8 (Venice, Italy, June 30~July 4, 2008)