研究领域

Dr. David Hui is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of Composites Materials Research Laboratory at University of New Orleans. He received his Ph.D. from University of Toronto in Aerospace Engineering, and Master of Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Hui has edited over 40 widely cited books, as evidence in the Google Search showing on these books. Other books includes, editor of Army Research Office workshop "Dynamics of Structures" proceedings, ICCE/1-24, SES, ASME books and numerous special issues of journals, and served as numerous keynote lecturers. He has served as founder and editor-in-chief of Composites part B journal. Currently, he serves on the editorial board of 11 SCI journals, seven of them are nano journals, and the rest are mostly composite materials journals. Dr. Hui is ASME Fellow, ICCE Life Member, AIAA Associate Fellow and CASI Associate Fellow. Dr. Hui is currently Doctor Honoris Causa of five universities in Italy, Ukraine, Georgia, Vietnam and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is academician of Engineering of three countries, Armenia, Georgia and Serbia. Dr. Hui is the chairman of ICCE, which has grown to be one of the world's pre-eminent annual composite materials or nano-materials conferences.

论文与著作

Dr. Hui has conducted over 3 million US dollars funded research on composites materials and nano-materials, mostly for mechanical/aerospace engineering and ship structures applications. He is widely known for his research on (i) nano materials mechanical properties modeling and prototyping (ii) mechanical behavior of materials under high or low temperatures, flammability and creep of composite materials, including smart material and structures, (iii) impact of blast dynamics, micro-crack initiation and growth under thermal and mechanical loadings and (iv) infrastructure composites under harsh environments. Dr. Hui has co-authored over 396 SCI journal publications, and these papers have been cited over 9800 times from Scopus. Currently, Dr. Hui serves on over 40 technical committees or editorial boards, consisting of over 2000 respected scientists on specific diverse fields of materials or nano science.
One of Dr. Hui’s outstanding contributions in research lies in the modeling of impact of composite materials using the energy partition model and functional graded approach to enhance the durability and safety of engineering structures under harsh environments. His pioneered research on the mechanisms of degradation of materials under low temperatures on composites has resulted in enormous improvement in the safety of engineering structures. Dr. Hui was the first to validate the dramatic effects of small curvature on vibration of flat plates, leading to the re-design and re-analysis of many structures critical for engineering safety.

荣誉与奖励

Dr. Hui was the recipient of research grants from NASA, ARO, ONR, AFOSR, NSF, LEQSF, US Army CRREL, GCRMTC, NOAA, Wright Patterson AFB, Universal Energy, Avondale Shipbuilding Inc., Northrup Grumman Ship Systems, among others. In recent years, Dr. Hui presented numerous keynote lectures: He was successful in promoting federally funded multi-universities partnerships on nano-materials or composite or nano materials.