Dr. Da (Daniel) Chen

Senior Lecturer, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

The University of New South Wales (UNSW, Sydney), Australia

UNSW Profile Link:https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/daniel-chen1

Abstract:Porous structures made of foams, lattices, and honeycombs are gaining tractions in various industrial sectors, and are featured with light weight, high specific stiffness, good energy absorption, and novel thermal, biological, acoustic characteristics. They give unique flexibility in performance-tailoring and possess great potential in multi-functional applications. Highlighted by non-uniform cellular geometries, functionally graded (FG) porous structures are an important extension of the existing porous structural forms and potentially provide enhanced properties. This presentation is focused on the design and analysis of FG porous structures, providing the big picture in terms of their theoretical, numerical, and experimental studies. Some of the latest applications of FG porous structures are also introduced.

Biography:Dr Da (Daniel) Chen is an ARC DECRA fellow and a Senior Lecturer at the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UNSW Sydney. He was awarded his PhD at the University of Queensland, and worked at Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Melbourne before joining UNSW. Daniel is best known for his contributions to the development of functionally graded (FG) porous structures, where the constitutive model he proposed is one of the most adopted ways to assess such structural forms.

Daniel’s publications are featuredwith citations as 3956 in Web of Science, 4208 in Scopus, and 4685 in Google Scholar, including7 Highly Cited Papers (Web of Science) in the field of FG porous structures.HisField-Weighted Citation Impact (SciVal) is 4.63. His book,titled:Machine Learning Aided Analysis, Design, and Additive Manufacturing of Functionally Graded Porous Composite Structures(2023),is first-of-its-kind in the area of graded porous structures.

The accumulated funding amount of research projects Daniel is leading reaches over $2 million. He is ranked among the top 2% scientists for three years in a row (single-year, Stanford University, 2023-2025), and is also an Editorial Board Member of two JCR Q1 journals (Engineering Structures; Structures). He aims to innovate the multi-physics analysis of FG porous composite materials/structures, and to push this field towards the multi-functional applications and commercialisations.