ABOUT
    Ting
    Zhu
    Professor Mechanics of Materials
    404.894.6597
    404.894.8336
    MRDC, Room 4110

    Began at Tech in 2005 as an Assistant Professor. Prior he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University.

    Education
    • Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004
    • Ph.D., Tsinghua University, China, 1999
    • B.S., Tsinghua University, China, 1995
    Research Interests

    Dr. Zhu's research focuses on the modeling and simulation of mechanical behavior of materials at the nano- to macroscale. Some of the scientific questions he is working to answer include understanding how materials fail due to the combined mechanical and chemical effects, what are the atomistic mechanisms governing the brittle to ductile transition in crystals, why the introduction of nano-sized twins can significantly increase the rate sensitivity of nano-crystals, and how domain structures affect the reliability of ferroelectric ceramics and thin films. To address these problems, which involve multiple length and time scales, he has used a variety of modeling techniques, such as molecular dynamics simulation, reaction pathway sampling, and the inter-atomic potential finite-element method. The goal of his research is to make materials modeling predictive enough to help design new materials with improved performance and reliability.