
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
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Offshore floating fish farms
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Infrastructure for offshore seaweed farms
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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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2016
Book Chapter
Thermal conductivity of graphene and its polymer nanocomposites: a review
Zhang, Yingyan, Wang, Yu, Wang, Chien Ming and Gu, Yuantong (2016). Thermal conductivity of graphene and its polymer nanocomposites: a review. Advanced Computational Nanomechanics. (pp. 1-28) edited by Nuno Silvestre. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781119068921.ch1
2016
Conference Publication
Hencky bar-chain model for buckling and vibration analyses of Euler-Bernoulli beams
Wang, C. M., Zhang, H., Challamel, N. and Kitipornchai, S. (2016). Hencky bar-chain model for buckling and vibration analyses of Euler-Bernoulli beams. 6th International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation, Cape Town, South Africa, 5-7 September 2016.
2016
Conference Publication
Hencky bar-chain model for buckling and vibration of beams with elastically restrained ends
Zhang, H., Wang, C. M. and Challamel, N. (2016). Hencky bar-chain model for buckling and vibration of beams with elastically restrained ends. International Conference on Advanced Materials, Structures and Mechanical Engineering, ICAMSME 2015, Incheon, South Korea, 29 - 31 May, 2015. CRC Press/Balkema.
2016
Conference Publication
Single adherent cell protein secretion analysis through droplet encapsulations of hydrogel particles
Wang, M., Ng, E. X., Leo, H. L., Lim, C. T. and Chen, C. H. (2016). Single adherent cell protein secretion analysis through droplet encapsulations of hydrogel particles. Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society.
2016
Conference Publication
Deployable, reconfigurable, affordable and repurposable naval bases of the future
Lim, S. H., Wang, Chien Ming and Peters, D. J. (2016). Deployable, reconfigurable, affordable and repurposable naval bases of the future. 13th International Naval Engineering Conference and Exhibition, Bristol, United Kingdom, 26-29 April 2016.
2016
Conference Publication
Buckling and vibrations of lattice plates using nonlocal elasticity
Challamel, N., Hache, F., Elishakoff, I. and Wang, C. M. (2016). Buckling and vibrations of lattice plates using nonlocal elasticity. 2016 ASCE Conference, Metz, France, 25-27 October 2016.
2015
Journal Article
Discrete and non-local elastica
Challamel, Noël, Kocsis, Attila and Wang, C. M. (2015). Discrete and non-local elastica. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 77, 128-140. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2015.06.012
2015
Journal Article
Higher-order gradient elasticity models applied to geometrically nonlinear discrete system
Challamel, Noel, Kocsis, Attila and Wang, C. M. (2015). Higher-order gradient elasticity models applied to geometrically nonlinear discrete system. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 42 (2), 223-248. doi: 10.2298/TAM1504223C
2015
Journal Article
On nonlocal computation of Eigenfrequencies of beams using finite difference and finite element methods
Challamel, Noël, Picandet, Vincent, Elishakoff, Issac, Wang, Chien Ming, Collet, Bernard and Michelitsch, Thomas (2015). On nonlocal computation of Eigenfrequencies of beams using finite difference and finite element methods. International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, 15 (7) 1540008, 1540008. doi: 10.1142/S0219455415400088
2015
Journal Article
Hencky bar-chain model for buckling and vibration of beams with elastic end restraints
Wang, C. M., Zhang, H., Gao, R. P., Duan, W. H. and Challamel, N. (2015). Hencky bar-chain model for buckling and vibration of beams with elastic end restraints. International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, 15 (7) 1540007, 1540007. doi: 10.1142/S0219455415400076
2015
Journal Article
Revisiting finite difference and finite element methods applied to structural mechanics within enriched continua
Challamel, Noel, Picandet, Vincent, Collet, Bernard, Michelitsch, Thomas, Elishakoff, Isaac and Wang, C. M. (2015). Revisiting finite difference and finite element methods applied to structural mechanics within enriched continua. European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids, 53, 107-120. doi: 10.1016/j.euromechsol.2015.03.003
2015
Journal Article
Erratum: Nonlinear-elastic membrane-shell model for single-walled carbon nanotubes under uni-axial deformation (Computational Materials Science (2015) 97 (237-244))
Roy Chowdhury, A. N., Koh, S. J A and Wang, C. M. (2015). Erratum: Nonlinear-elastic membrane-shell model for single-walled carbon nanotubes under uni-axial deformation (Computational Materials Science (2015) 97 (237-244)). Computational Materials Science, 103, 204-204. doi: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2015.03.031
2015
Journal Article
Effect of covalent functionalization on thermal transport across graphene-polymer interfaces
Wang, Y., Zhan, H. F., Xiang, Y., Yang, C., Wang, C. M. and Zhang, Y. Y. (2015). Effect of covalent functionalization on thermal transport across graphene-polymer interfaces. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119 (22), 12731-12738. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b02920
2015
Journal Article
Closed-form solutions for funicular cables and arches
Wang, C. Y. and Wang, C. M. (2015). Closed-form solutions for funicular cables and arches. Acta Mechanica, 226 (5), 1641-1645. doi: 10.1007/s00707-014-1250-x
2015
Journal Article
Mechanical properties and microstructure of a graphene oxide-cement composite
Pan, Zhu, He, Li, Qiu, Ling, Korayem, Asghar Habibnejad, Li, Gang, Zhu, Jun Wu, Collins, Frank, Li, Dan, Duan, Wen Hui and Wang, Ming Chien (2015). Mechanical properties and microstructure of a graphene oxide-cement composite. Cement and Concrete Composites, 58, 140-147. doi: 10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2015.02.001
2015
Journal Article
Effect of ultrasonication energy on engineering properties of carbon nanotube reinforced cement pastes
Zou, Bo, Chen, Shu Jian, Korayem, Asghar H., Collins, Frank, Wang, C. M. and Duan, Wen Hui (2015). Effect of ultrasonication energy on engineering properties of carbon nanotube reinforced cement pastes. Carbon, 85, 212-220. doi: 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.12.094
2015
Journal Article
Nonlocal equivalent continua for buckling and vibration analyses of microstructured beams
Challamel, Noël, Zhang, Zhen and Wang, C. M. (2015). Nonlocal equivalent continua for buckling and vibration analyses of microstructured beams. Journal of Nanomechanics and Micromechanics, 5 (1) A4014004. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)NM.2153-5477.0000062
2015
Journal Article
Corticosterone Mediates the Inhibitory Effect of Restraint Stress on the Migration of Mesenchymal Stem Cell to Carbon Tetrachloride-Induced Fibrotic Liver by Downregulating CXCR4/7 Expression
Zhang, Shanshan, Lv, Chuan, Yang, Xue, Han, Zhipeng, Zhang, Shuili, Zhang, Jianwei, Zong, Chen, Gao, Lu, Li, Li, Zhao, Qiudong, Li, Rong, Yang, Yang, Yu, Fenghai, Li, Xiaoning, Zhang, Ping and Wei, Lixin (2015). Corticosterone Mediates the Inhibitory Effect of Restraint Stress on the Migration of Mesenchymal Stem Cell to Carbon Tetrachloride-Induced Fibrotic Liver by Downregulating CXCR4/7 Expression. Stem Cells and Development, 24 (5), 587-596. doi: 10.1089/scd.2014.0243
2015
Journal Article
Functional inactivation of UDP-<i>N</i>-acetylglucosamine pyrophosphorylase 1 (UAP1) induces early leaf senescence and defence responses in rice
Wang, Zhaohai, Wang, Ya, Hong, Xiao, Hu, Daoheng, Liu, Caixiang, Yang, Jing, Li, Yang, Huang, Yunqing, Feng, Yuqi, Gong, Hanyu, Li, Yang, Fang, Gen, Tang, Huiru and Li, Yangsheng (2015). Functional inactivation of UDP-N-acetylglucosamine pyrophosphorylase 1 (UAP1) induces early leaf senescence and defence responses in rice. Journal of Experimental Botany, 66 (3), 973-987. doi: 10.1093/jxb/eru456
2015
Journal Article
Analytical solutions for catenary domes
Wang, C. Y. and Wang, C. M. (2015). Analytical solutions for catenary domes. Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 141 (2) 06014019, 06014019. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)EM.1943-7889.0000896
Funding
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Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Development of Hencky bar chain model for buckling and vibration analyses and optimisation of arch structures
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Offshore seaweed and renewable energy farms: solutions for integration and co-location
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor David Callaghan
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Doctor Philosophy
Designing self-healing concrete using molecular dynamics simulations
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Shujian Chen
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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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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Development of a passive solution for mitigating sloshing in a floating rigid closed containment aquaculture tank in waves
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Tom Baldock
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Influence of Geometric Characteristics on Wind Characteristics behind Floating Forest
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Matthew Mason
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Semi-analytical solutions for hydrodynamic behaviours of floating polygonal platforms and ring breakwaters
Principal Advisor
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Structural Dynamics under Moving Loads: Inclined Structure, MINE Method, and Structural Health Monitoring
Principal Advisor
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Development of Integrated Offshore Fish Cage and Floating Spar Wind Turbine
Principal Advisor
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Numerical and Experimental Studies of a Novel Porous Breakwater
Principal Advisor
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Extracting Wave Energy while Reducing Hydroelastic Response of Very Large Floating Structures
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Dorival Pedroso
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