Tongguang Zhai, Ph.D.
- Materials Engineering
7/2007—present Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0046, USA
8/2001—6/2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0046, USA
9/1983—8/1986 Research Engineer, Welding Department Institute of Building and Construction Research, Beijing, China
8/1/2000-8/14/2001 Postdoctoral Research Associate University of Kentucky conducting research work on continuous cast Al
1/21/1995-4/30/2000 Research Fellow University of Oxford, England studying short fatigue crack initiation & propagation
10/1/1994-12/31/1994 Postdoctoral Assistant Fraunhofer Institute for NDT, Germany ultrasonic NDT and acoustic microscopy of materials
9/1991-9/1994 Ph.D. student D.Phil (Ph.D),
9/1996 Materials Science, University of Oxford, England
9/1979-6/1983 Undergraduate B.Sc.,
6/1983 Materials Physics, University of Science & Technology Beijing, China
Electron Microscopy
Failure Analysis
Fatigue and Fracture
Micro and Macrotexture
Simulation of Fatigue Damage
Structure/Property Relations