About Yapu Zhao’s work
Based at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yapu Zhao held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from January to July 2000.
Biography
Yapu Zhao graduated from Taiyuan Institute of Mechanical Engineering in 1984, received his PhD in mechanics from Peking University in 1994, was promoted to researcher at the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1998, served as Deputy Director and Executive Deputy Director of the Open Research Laboratory (LNM) of Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics from 1997 to 2000.
Zhao is a distinguished researcher of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the leader of the Micro and Nano Mechanics Working Group of the Chinese Society of Mechanics, the Deputy Director of the Physical Mechanics Professional Committee, the Executive Director of the Chinese Society of Micro and Nano Technology. His research interests include physical mechanics, micro and nano mechanics, impact dynamics and mechanical problems in unconventional energy sources. In terms of impact dynamics, in 1998, a dimensionless number of the plastic dynamic response of a structure under impact load was proposed, Response Number-Rn.