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Yongming Liu
Assistant Professor
234 Rowley Laboratories
Clarkson University
PO Box 5710,
Potsdam, NY 13699-5710

Phone: 315-268-2341
FAX: 315-268-7985
E-mail: yliu@clarkson.edu
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Education
Ph.D. Civil & Environmental Engineering - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 2006
M.S. Structural Engineering - Tongji University, Shanghai, China 2002
B.S. Structural Engineering - Tongji University, Shanghai, China 1999

Teaching Interests
Engineering materials, structural mechanics and analysis, solid mechanics, probability theory, applied statistics

Research Interests
Fatigue and fracture of engineering materials and structures, probabilistic computational mechanics, risk assessment and management, multi-physics damage modeling and structural durability, multi-scale uncertainty quantification and propagation, structural dynamics and earthquake engineering, stochastic finite element methods
Selected Publications

Journal Publications:
Liu Y, Liu L, Mahadevan S. Subsurface fatigue crack propagation under rolling contact loading. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2007. (accepted)
Liu Y, Mahadevan S. Stochastic fatigue damage modeling under variable amplitude loading. International Journal of Fatigue, Vol. 29, pp. 1149-1161, 2007.
Liu Y, Liu L, Stratman B, Mahadevan S. Multiaxial fatigue reliability analysis of railroad wheels. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2007. (accepted)
Liu Y, Mahadevan S. Threshold stress intensity factor and crack growth rate prediction under mixed-mode loading. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 74, pp. 332-345, 2007.
Liu Y, Mahadevan S. A unified multiaxial fatigue model for isotropic and anisotropic materials. International Journal of Fatigue, International Journal of Fatigue, pp. 347-359, Vol. 29, 2007.
Liu Y, Stratman B., Mahadevan S. Fatigue crack initiation life prediction of railroad wheels. International Journal of Fatigue, Vol. 28, Issue 7, pp. 747-756, 2006.
Liu Y, Mahadevan S. Stain based multiaxial fatigue damage modeling. Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures, Vol. 28, pp. 1177-1189, 2005.
Liu Y, Mahadevan S. Multiaxial high-cycle fatigue criterion and life prediction for metals. International Journal of Fatigue, Vol. 27, Issue 27, pp. 790-800, 2005.
Liu Y, Mahadevan S. Probabilistic fatigue life prediction of multidirectional composite laminates. Composite Structures, Vol. 69, pp. 11-19, 2005.
Rebba R, Huang S, Liu Y, and Mahadevan S. Statistical validation of simulation models. International Journal of Materials and Product Technology, Vol. 25, pp. 164 - 181, 2006.
Liu Y, Chen YY, Chen YJ. Hysteresis model of steel frame connection considering partial fracture. Journal of Tongji University (Natural Science), Vol.31, No.5, pp.525-530, 2003. (in Chinese)
Liu Y, Zhang Y, Chen YY. Chen YJ. Experimental research on fracture performance in weld heat-affect Zone. Shanghai Journal of Mechanics, Vol.23?No.2?2002. (in Chinese)
Chen YY, Liu Y, Yue C. Earthquake response analysis of steel tube frames based on the hysteresis model of columns with axial loading change. World Information on Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 16, No.4, 2000. (in Chinese)

Conference proceedings:
Liu Y, Stratman B, Liu L, Mahadevan S. Probabilistic fatigue life prediction of railroad wheels. SAE World Congress & Exhibition, April 16-19, 2007, Detroit, MI, USA.
Liu Y, Stratman B, Liu L, Mahadevan S. Shattered rim failure analysis in railroad wheels. Proceedings of IMECE2006, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2006.
Liu Y, Mahadevan S. Mixed-mode fatigue crack threshold and growth rate prediction. International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials VI, Hyannis, MA, USA, 2006.
Liu Y, Mahadevan S. A Critical Plane Method for Multiaxial Fatigue Life Prediction. 9th International Congress of Fatigue, Atlanta, GA, May 2006.
Liu Y, Mahadevan S. Uncertainty Modeling in Fatigue Life Prediction. 9th International Congress of Fatigue, Atlanta, GA, May 2006.
Liu Y, Mahadevan S. Multiaxial High-Cycle Fatigue Life Prediction of Isotropic and Anisotropic Materials. 46th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics & Materials Conference, Austin, TX, April 2005.
Liu Y, Mahadevan S. Fatigue Damage Modeling of Composite Laminates. Proceedings of PMC'04, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, July 2004.
Liu Y, Mahadevan S. Probabilistic Fatigue Damage of Composite Laminates. ASC/ASTM-D30 Joint 19thAnnual Technical Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA, October 2004.
Liu Y, Stratman B, Mahadevan S. Stochastic Multiaxial Damage Modeling for Metal Fatigue. 9th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability, Rome, Italy, June 2005.
Chen YY, Liu Y, Bian R, Numerical Model for Partial Fracture Failure of Steel Beam-to-Column Joints. Proceedings of 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, BC Canada, Aug 2004.
Liu Y, Chen YY, Chen YJ. Earthquake response of steel tube frames under multi-directional seismic shock. 9th National Conference on Structural Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 3, pp 152~157, 2000.