Shaofan Li

Associate Professor

Office - 783 Davis Hall
Phone - (510) 642-5362
FAX - (510) 643-8928
E-mail - li@ce.berkeley.edu
Address-
University of California at Berkeley,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials,
783 Davis Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1710 USA.
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Education

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University , 1997.

M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, 1993.

M.S. in Computational Mechanics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, 1989.

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 1982.


Areas of Research

Bio- and nano-mechanics and materials, Multiscale Simulations and Computational Statistical Mechanics, Computational solid and fluid mechanics (finite element methods, meshfree methods and computational failure analysis), Micromechanics (Composites mechanics, Dislocation mechanics, and Thin-film mechanics), Configurational Mechanics,  Wave motions, Dynamic fracture and wave propagation,  Dynamic shear band propagation, Smart materials and structures.

          78.  Liu, X. Li, S. and Sheng, N.  [2007]
                ``A cohesive finite element for quasi-continua
,''
                 Computational Mechanics, 1-17,  Online, [pdf]

          77.  Sauer R. and Li, S. [2007],
                ``An atomistically enriched continuum model for nanoscale

                  Contact Mechanics and Its application to contact scaling,''
                  Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 1-17,  Online, [pdf]

          76.  Sheng Ni and Shaofan Li [2007]
                 ``A nonequilibrium multiscale simulation of shock wave propagation,''
                 Mechanics Research Communications,  1-7, Online 
[pdf]

          75.  Shaofan Li [2007]
                 ``A Multiscale Griffith criterion,''
                  Philosophical Magazine Letters, 87,  945-965 
[pdf]

           74.  Roger Sauer, Gang Wang,  and Shaofan Li [2007]
                 ``The composite Eshelby tensors and their applications
                    to homogenization,''
                  Acta Mechanica, 1-37,  Online, [pdf]

           73.  Chin-Long Lee and Shaofan Li [2008]
                 ``The size effect of thin films on the Peierls stress of edge dislocations,''
                   Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 13, 316-335,  [pdf]


Courses Taught

 


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