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Tell me about Dr. Tommy C. Chen?

Dr. Tommy C. Chen has more than five years of academic research experience during his Master and Ph.D. study in the Civil Engineering Dept. of the Univ. of Queensland.

His research interests involve many different engineering disciplines, including Computer-Aided Design, Structural Optimization, Genetic Algorithms, Analysis of Laminated Plates and Shells, Finite Element and Approximated Methods.

Tell me about Dr. Q. Xue?

Dr. Qiang Xue obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Queensland in 1998. She has a strong educational background with sound academic records, computer programming skills, and four years professional working experience in civil and structural engineering. She is skillful at computer programming on different platforms and operating systems, experienced in using several computer languages, developed and modified several packages with graphical user interface or multimedia, and familiar with a variety of existing software of word processing and graphics. She was characterized by her supervisor as having a "fresh and quick" mind, being able to keep the goal in mind and make some achievements efficiently and independently.

She was once worked as the only design engineer in a construction company. and characterized by her employer as a responsible, diligent and competed engineer solving practical problems which worried other project engineers for several construction sites engaged by the company. As a result, this helped save a lot of money for the company. She was familiar with several design codes for reinforced concrete and steel structures of different countries and experienced in the design of residential and commercial buildings including main structure, foundation, retaining wall, etc. She is also skillful at architectural and structural estimation which helped the company to win the bidding. Her working efficiency did give a very good impression to the executive manager and the corresponding project engineers. Three years working in the Institute benefits her for a thorough knowledge and sound understanding of structural mechanics and other subjects in the area of civil and structural engineering.

Publications of Dr. Tommy C. Chen and Dr. Q. Xue

Publications of Dr. Tommy C. Chen:

C.C. Chen, Study on the improvement of Genetic Algorithms for space truss optimization, Master thesis, Asian Institute of Technology, April. 1994.
W. Kanok-Nukulchai and C.C. Chen, Efficient Genetic Algorithms for space truss optimization, Proceedings of the fifth East-Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, Gold Coast, Australia, 1115-1120, 1995.
K.M. Liew, W. Karunasena, S. Kitipornchai and C.C. Chen, Vibration analysis of arbitrary quadrilateral unsymmetrically laminated thick plates, AIAA Journal, 35(7), 1251-1253, 1997.
C.C. Chen, K.M. Liew, C.W. Lim and S. Kitipornchai, Vibration analysis of symmetrically laminated thick rectangular plates using the high-order theory and p-Ritz method, The Journal of the Acoustic Society of America, 102(2), 1997.
C.C. Chen, C.W. Lim, S. Kitipornchai and K.M. Liew, Vibration analysis of thick laminated trapezoidal plates, 11th international conference on composite materials, vol. II, 55-63, Gold Coast, Australia, 1997.
C.C. Chen, S. Kitipornchai, C.W. Lim and K.M. Liew, Free vibration of cantileverd symmetrically laminated thick trapezoidal plates, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, in press, 1998.
C.M Wang, C.C. Chen and S. Kitipornchai, Shear deformable bending solutions from classical ones for beams/plates with elastic end restraints, Archive of Applied Mechanics, in press, 1998.
K.M. Liew, W. Karunasena, S. Kitipornchai and C.C. Chen, Vibration of unsymmetrically laminated thick plates with quadrangular boundary, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, in press, 1998.
C.C. Chen, S. Kitipornchai and C.M. Wang, Optimization of fiber orientations of thick laminated plates for maximum fundamental frequency via Genetic Algorithms, proceeding of High performance computing Asia 98, Singapore, submitted for possible publication,1998.
C. C. Chen C. W. Lim, S. Kitipornchai and K. M. Liew, Vibration of symmetrically laminated thick super elliptical plates, Journal of Sound and Vibration, submitted for possible publication, 1998.
C. C. Chen, K. M. Liew, S. Kitipornchai and C. W. Lim, Vibration of symmetrically laminated thick perforated plates, International Journal of Solids and Structures, submitted for possible publication, 1998.

Publications of Dr. Q. Xue:

Qiang Xue, Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Plane Elements, Master Thesis No. ST-93-33, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, 1993.
Qiang Xue and Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, Adaptive mesh refinement for plane elements, Proceedings of the Fifth East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, 65-71, 25-27 July 1995.
J.L. Meek and Qiang Xue, A study on the instability problem for 2D-frames, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 136, 347-361, 1996.
J.L. Meek and Qiang Xue, A study on the instability problem for 3D-frames, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 158, 235-254, 1998.
J.L. Meek and Qiang Xue, A study on the instability problem associated with snap-through of frame structures, Proceedings of Asia-Pacific Conference on Shell and Spatial Structures, Beijing, China, 619-626,21-25 May, 1996.
J.L. Meek and Qiang Xue, Non-linear dynamic analysis on the snap-through of 2D-frames, The Third International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Budapest, Hungary, 109-114, 21-23 August 1996.
J.L. Meek and Qiang Xue, Non-linear dynamic analysis on the instability problem for frame structures, Second International Conference on The Application of Numerical Methods in Engineering, Malaysia, 367-376, 23-25 June 1997.
Qiang Xue and J.L. Meek, Non-linear dynamic analysis on the snap through for 3D-frames, The Seventh International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Vol. 1, 311-316, 19-21 August 1997.
Qiang Xue, Non-linear dynamic analysis on the instabilityproblem for plane and spatial frames, Doctoral dissertation, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 1998.
Qiang Xue and J.L. Meek, Dynamic response and dynamic instability of frame structures, Computers and Structures, submitted for possible publication.

Last revised 12-March-1999 by Tommy Chen