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Professor Chien Ming Wang
Professor

Chien Ming Wang

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Overview

Background

C.M. Wang joined the School of Civil Engineering, University of Queensland (UQ) in January 2017 as the Transport and Main Roads (TMR) Chair Professor of Structural Engineering. He graduated from Monash University in Civil Engineering with a First Class Honours in 1978 and was awarded M.Eng.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the same university in 1980 and 1982, respectively. Prior to joining UQ, Professor Wang held the positions as the Director for the Engineering Science Programme and the Director for the Global Engineering Programme, at the Faculty of Engineering of the National University of Singapore. Additionally, he was the Vice-Dean of Undergraduate Programmes of NUS Faculty of Engineering and the Associate Director of the Centre for Development in Teaching and Learning, NUS. He is also the Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia and was elected as Monash Civil Engineering Alumnus of the Year 2015 for his significant contributions to the engineering profession.

Professor Wang is a Chartered Structural Engineer, Fellow of Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Fellow of Academy of Engineering Singapore, Fellow of Institution of Engineers Singapore, Fellow of Institution of Structural Engineers and Fellow of Society of Floating Solutions (Singapore). He was the Chairman of the IStructE Singapore Regional Group and the IStructE Council Member for 12 years. He was awarded 2009 Lewis Kent Award, 2014 Keith Eaton Award and IES Outstanding Volunteer Awards 2011 and 2008 for his outstanding leadership and significant contributions to IStructE and IES. Currently, he is Chairman of International Steering Committee of EASEC, Vice President of Society of Floating Solutions Singapore, member of International Advisory Committee of RILS and Senior Fellow of PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research, Hong Kong PolyU. He is founding member of International Engineering Science Consortium that comprises 9 premier universities (UC Berkeley, Cornell Univ, Univ of Toronto, Osaka University, KTH Sweden, UCL, NUS, UQ, Auckland Univ).

Professor Wang is a highly sought after keynote speaker in international conferences. He has given over 50 keynote presentations and many seminars on very large floating structures, structural modeling and analysis in many countries. He has won a number of research awards such as 2019 Nishino Medal, 2019 JN Reddy Medal and best paper awards. He has provided consulting services and served as an expert in structures and very large floating structures to many public and private organizations, including JTC Corporation, Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, Housing Development Board, Defence Science and Technology Agency, Jurong Consultants, Surbana International and Singapore Cruise Centre.

Availability

Professor Chien Ming Wang is:
Available for supervision

Fields of research

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University
  • Fellow, Academy of Engineering Singapore, Academy of Engineering Singapore
  • Fellow, Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering
  • Fellow, Institution of Engineers Singapore, Institution of Engineers Singapore
  • Fellow, Institution of Structural Engineers, Institution of Structural Engineers
  • Fellow, The Society of Floating Solutions Singapore, The Society of Floating Solutions Singapore

Research interests

  • Offshore floating fish farms

  • Infrastructure for offshore seaweed farms

  • Development of New Structural Models for Analysis

Research impacts

Prof CM Wang’s research interests are wide; covering areas in structural stability, vibration, optimization, plates/shells, nano-structures, computational mechanics and large floating structures. He has made significant contributions to these areas by authoring over 500 journal papers, 6 books, editing 4 books and several conference proceedings. His publications have garnered over 26,000 citations and his h-index is 79 according to Google Scholar. He has been listed as a most cited researcher in civil engineering in the Shanghai Ranking for academic subjects 2016.

Prof Wang is globally renowned for his work on very large floating structures (VLFS) that find many applications such as floating oil storage facilities, bridges, restaurants, and piers/berths. He holds patents on a new type of pontoon, an offshore floating bunker supply base, a floating fuel storage facility and an aquaculture structure. Prof Wang co-edited the first book on VLFS and published extensively on the subject. He has been invited to give keynote lectures/courses on VLFS in more than a dozen countries. He is the principal investigator of several research and industrial projects on VLFS that amounts to over S$10 million. He was the chief consultant for the floating platform at Marina Bay and the floating wetlands at Punggol Waterways. His work on floating wetlands bagged the Minister of National Development R&D (Special Mention) Award 2017 and the IStructE Singapore Structural Award for Sustainability 2016. Prof Wang worked with NUS and SINTEF researchers to develop a new floating hydrocarbon storage facility and floating bridges for deployment in Singapore waters. He was awarded $688,000 from ARC to conduct research on a novel floating forest to protect fragile shorelines of Australia and another $433,000 to do research on the next generation offshore blue aquaculture. He is currently the leader of the offshore engineering and technology program of the Blue Economy CRC.

Prof Wang is also famous for his discovery of exact relationships between shear deformable beam/plate theories and their classical counterparts. His papers and seminal book on shear deformable beams/plates contain these amazing relationships that help unlock the exact solutions for shear deformable beams/plates. Another notable contribution of Prof Wang is the use of Eringen’s nonlocal theory for structural analysis that allows researchers to incorporate the effect of small length scale that is important when dealing with nanostructures. His early papers on the nonlocal beam theory have opened up a new research direction and spurred the publication of hundreds of papers on the subject. He has also contributed to the development of continuum models for carbon nanotubes, graphene and graphyne sheets. The study also involves calibrating the small length scale parameter in the nonlocal models by using Molecular Dynamic Simulations, experimental results and microstructured beam models or Hencky bar chain models.

Prof Wang's early research papers on flexural-torsional buckling of monosymmetric I-beams were cited in structural stability textbooks and his buckling formulas for these beams have been adopted in design codes. His proposed "Shooting-Optimization Technique" for solving two-point boundary value problems has been applied to solve all kinds of problems such as variable arc-length beam problems, biofilm problems, undersea cables, and fibre problems. His work on the automation of the Ritz method for plate analysis has drawn much interest from the research community. Many researchers have adopted the method for their plate analyses.

Professor Wang has supervised 28 PhD students, 20 MEng students and 12 Postdoc Fellows, many of them now holding leading positions in universities and engineering practice.

Works

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735 works between 1979 and 2024

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Featured

2015

Book

Large Floating Structures: Technological Advances

C. M. Wang and B. T,. Wang eds. (2015). Large Floating Structures: Technological Advances. Ocean Engineering & Oceanography, Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-287-137-4

Large Floating Structures: Technological Advances

Featured

2013

Book

Structural vibration: exact solutions for strings, membranes, beams and plates

Wang, C. Y. and Wang, C. M. (2013). Structural vibration: exact solutions for strings, membranes, beams and plates. Boca Raton, FL, United States: CRC Press.

Structural vibration: exact solutions for strings, membranes, beams and plates

Featured

2008

Book

Very Large Floating Structures

Chien Ming Wang, E. Watanabe and T. Utsunomiya eds. (2008). Very Large Floating Structures. Abingdon, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis.

Very Large Floating Structures

Featured

2004

Book

Exact solutions for buckling of structural members

Wang, Chien Ming, Wang, C. Y. and Reddy, J. N. (2004). Exact solutions for buckling of structural members. CRC Press: Boca Raton, United States. doi: 10.1201/9780203483534

Exact solutions for buckling of structural members

Featured

2000

Book

Shear deformable beams and plates: relationships with classical solutions

C. M. Wang, Reddy, J. N. and Lee, K. H. eds. (2000). Shear deformable beams and plates: relationships with classical solutions. Oxford, United Kingdom: Elsevier Science.

Shear deformable beams and plates: relationships with classical solutions

2024

Journal Article

Genome-wide identification, evolutionary analysis of 4CL gene family and expression analysis in banana

Wang, Mengge, Jia, Liang, Liu, Yanying, Zhang, Chunyu, Chen, Yukun, Lin, Yuling, Huang, Yuji and Lai, Zhongxiong (2024). Genome-wide identification, evolutionary analysis of 4CL gene family and expression analysis in banana. Food and Agricultural Immunology, 35 (1) 2287958. doi: 10.1080/09540105.2023.2287958

Genome-wide identification, evolutionary analysis of 4CL gene family and expression analysis in banana

2024

Journal Article

Magneto-Aeroelastic Dynamic Buckling and Flutter of Rotating Conductive Annular Disks Under Air-Film Loading

Li, Wenqiang, Liang, Shuqi, Hu, Yuda and Wang, Chien Ming (2024). Magneto-Aeroelastic Dynamic Buckling and Flutter of Rotating Conductive Annular Disks Under Air-Film Loading. International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics 2650019. doi: 10.1142/s0219455426500197

Magneto-Aeroelastic Dynamic Buckling and Flutter of Rotating Conductive Annular Disks Under Air-Film Loading

2024

Journal Article

Bracing systems for three-ribbed arch bridges against out-of-plane buckling

Zhao, Chuan-Hao, Pan, Wen-Hao, Wang, C. M. and Luo, Yao-Zhi (2024). Bracing systems for three-ribbed arch bridges against out-of-plane buckling. Structures, 68 107169, 107169. doi: 10.1016/j.istruc.2024.107169

Bracing systems for three-ribbed arch bridges against out-of-plane buckling

2024

Journal Article

Advances in Offshore Aquaculture and Renewable Energy Production

Nguyen, Huu Phu and Wang, Chien Ming (2024). Advances in Offshore Aquaculture and Renewable Energy Production. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 12 (9) 1679, 1679. doi: 10.3390/jmse12091679

Advances in Offshore Aquaculture and Renewable Energy Production

2024

Journal Article

Numerical Study on Hydroelastic Responses of Submersible High-Density Polyethylene Circular Seaweed Platforms Held by Single-Point Mooring System and Buoys

Nguyen, Huu-Phu, Huang, Chenxuan, von Herzen, Brian and Wang, Chien-Ming (2024). Numerical Study on Hydroelastic Responses of Submersible High-Density Polyethylene Circular Seaweed Platforms Held by Single-Point Mooring System and Buoys. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 12 (8) 1437, 1437. doi: 10.3390/jmse12081437

Numerical Study on Hydroelastic Responses of Submersible High-Density Polyethylene Circular Seaweed Platforms Held by Single-Point Mooring System and Buoys

2024

Journal Article

Optimal shape of an arch under a central point load for maximum buckling load

Wang, C. M. and Zhang, J. M. (2024). Optimal shape of an arch under a central point load for maximum buckling load. Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 150 (8) 06024002. doi: 10.1061/jenmdt.emeng-7750

Optimal shape of an arch under a central point load for maximum buckling load

2024

Journal Article

In-Plane Vibrations of Elastic Lattice Plates and Their Continuous Approximations

Challamel, Noël, Nguyen, Huu Phu, Wang, Chien Ming and Ruta, Giuseppe (2024). In-Plane Vibrations of Elastic Lattice Plates and Their Continuous Approximations. Mathematics, 12 (15) 2312, 2312. doi: 10.3390/math12152312

In-Plane Vibrations of Elastic Lattice Plates and Their Continuous Approximations

2024

Conference Publication

Review of recent research and developments on wave energy production

Nguyen, H. P., Wang, C. M. and Penesis, I. (2024). Review of recent research and developments on wave energy production. WCFS 2023: Third World Conference on Floating Solutions, Tokyo, Japan, 28–29 August 2023. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-0495-8_34

Review of recent research and developments on wave energy production

2024

Conference Publication

Assessment of Different Layouts of Rod Reinforcement Mesh in Stiffening Fish Cages Under Wave Loads

Ma, Mingyuan, Zhang, Xinyu, Chu, Yunil, Wang, Chien Ming and Zhang, Hong (2024). Assessment of Different Layouts of Rod Reinforcement Mesh in Stiffening Fish Cages Under Wave Loads. ASME 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE), Singapore, 9-14 June 2024. New York, NY United States: American Society of Mechanical Engineers. doi: 10.1115/omae2024-126537

Assessment of Different Layouts of Rod Reinforcement Mesh in Stiffening Fish Cages Under Wave Loads

2024

Conference Publication

Hydroelastic Responses of Submersible Seaweed Cultivation Platforms With Single-Point Mooring Systems

Nguyen, H. P., Wang, C. M., von Herzen, B. and Huang, C. (2024). Hydroelastic Responses of Submersible Seaweed Cultivation Platforms With Single-Point Mooring Systems. ASME 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE), Singapore, 9-14 June 2024. New York, NY United States: American Society of Mechanical Engineers. doi: 10.1115/omae2024-124766

Hydroelastic Responses of Submersible Seaweed Cultivation Platforms With Single-Point Mooring Systems

2024

Conference Publication

Hydroelastic Responses of Submersible Modular Fish Pen With Different Lengths Under Wave and Current Actions

Qiao, Yi Ping, Chu, Yunil, Wang, Chien Ming, Batra, Mayank and Nguyen, Huu Phu (2024). Hydroelastic Responses of Submersible Modular Fish Pen With Different Lengths Under Wave and Current Actions. ASME 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE), Singapore, 9-14 June 2024. New York, NY United States: American Society of Mechanical Engineers. doi: 10.1115/omae2024-123598

Hydroelastic Responses of Submersible Modular Fish Pen With Different Lengths Under Wave and Current Actions

2024

Journal Article

Maximum spanning capacity of a catenary arch under self-weight against buckling

Wang, C. M. and Zhang, J. M. (2024). Maximum spanning capacity of a catenary arch under self-weight against buckling. Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, 1-8. doi: 10.1080/13287982.2024.2357403

Maximum spanning capacity of a catenary arch under self-weight against buckling

2024

Journal Article

On angular and surface interactions in two-dimensional elastic lattices

Challamel, Noël, Ruta, Giuseppe, Nguyen, H. P., Wang, C. M. and Zhang, Y. P. (2024). On angular and surface interactions in two-dimensional elastic lattices. European Journal of Mechanics, A/Solids, 104 105176, 1-25. doi: 10.1016/j.euromechsol.2023.105176

On angular and surface interactions in two-dimensional elastic lattices

2024

Journal Article

Optimal bracing system design for funicular twin arches against out-of-plane buckling

Pan, W. H., Zhao, C. H., Wang, C. M. and Luo, Y. Z. (2024). Optimal bracing system design for funicular twin arches against out-of-plane buckling. Engineering Structures, 301 117250, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2023.117250

Optimal bracing system design for funicular twin arches against out-of-plane buckling

2024

Journal Article

Methodology for determining optimal design of funicular arches under point loads and selfweight against in-plane buckling

Zhang, J. M., Wang, C. M. and Pan, W. H. (2024). Methodology for determining optimal design of funicular arches under point loads and selfweight against in-plane buckling. Engineering Structures, 300 117255, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2023.117255

Methodology for determining optimal design of funicular arches under point loads and selfweight against in-plane buckling

Funding

Current funding

  • 2024 - 2026
    Novel Offshore Fish Pen Design: Phase 2 (Model Tests, Concept Qualification and Design Optomization)
    Blue Economy CRC-Co Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2027
    Analysing Graduate Attributes and Employability of BECRC RHD students
    Blue Economy CRC-Co Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2023 - 2026
    Creating pH-sensitive self-healing concrete using sludge waste for sewers (ARC Discovery Project administered by University of South Australia)
    University of South Australia
    Open grant
  • 2023 - 2025
    Structural and hydrodynamic modelling of scalable offshore seaweed mariculture platforms
    Blue Economy CRC-Co Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2026
    Program Leader for the Offshore Engineering and Technology Research Program
    Blue Economy CRC-Co Ltd
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2022 - 2024
    Developing production systems for offshore kelp mariculture
    Blue Economy CRC-Co Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2024
    Novel Offshore Fish Pen Design: Phase 1 (Conceptual Development)
    Blue Economy CRC-Co Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2020
    Multi-Purpose Offshore/High Energy Platforms: Concepts and Applications
    Blue Economy CRC-Co Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2020
    Review on fish pen designs and mooring systems
    Blue Economy CRC-Co Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2023
    Next generation offshore blue water aquaculture
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2022
    Structural Engineering Academic Agreement - TMR Chair Professor
    Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2021
    Floating Forest - a breakwater for protecting the Australian coastline
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2021
    ARC Research Hub for nanoscience based construction material manufacturing (ARC Research Hub administered by Monash University)
    Monash University
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Offshore seaweed and renewable energy farms: solutions for integration and co-location

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor David Callaghan

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Designing self-healing concrete using molecular dynamics simulations

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Shujian Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Development of Hencky bar chain model for buckling and vibration analyses and optimisation of arch structures

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Structural performance of cardboard folded sandwich structures for ultra-low-cost emergency shelters

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Joe Gattas

Completed supervision

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