PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

· Huazhong University of Science & Technology Civil Engineering B.S., 1994-1998

· University of Mississippi Civil Engineering Ph.D., 2003-2008

· University of Mississippi Civil Engineering Postdoc., 2008-2012

APPOINTMENTS

· 2013-Present, Assistant Professor / Civil Engineering,University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

· 2013, Senior FEA Engineer, Comau Inc (A FIAT company)

· 2008-2012, Postdoc / Civil Engineering, University of Mississippi.

· 1999-2003, Structural Engineer, Wuhan Linyun Sci & Tech. Co. Ltd. China

PUBLICATIONS AND PROJECTS

Publications

1) Wu,W., I, Owino,J., Fomunung, and Onyango, M. (2016) “Thermal expansion crack analysis of a prestressed double tee canopy beam”, to be submitted to Finite Elements in analysis and Design.

2) Wu,W., I, Owino,J., Fomunung, and Onyango, M. (2016) “Modeling recycled aggregate concrete crack by XFEM and concrete damage plasticity”, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, under review

3) Wu,W., I, Owino,J., Fomunung, and Onyango, M. (2016) “Thermal expansion crack analysis of a prestressed double tee canopy beam”, to be submitted to Finite Elements in analysis and Design.

4) Wu,W., I, Owino,J., Fomunung, and Onyango, M. (2016) “Modeling recycled aggregate concrete crack by XFEM and concrete damage plasticity”, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, under review

5) Wu,W., I, Owino,J., Fomunung, and Onyango, M. (2016) “Structural analysis to the innovative hybrid carbon nanotube-graphene sheet nanostructure”, International Conference on Composites/Nano Engineering ICCE-24, July 2016, Hainan, China.

6) Wu,W., Haraway, T.K., Batchu, A.S., Fomunung, I, Owino,J., and Onyango, M. (2016) " Finite element thermal crack analysis of prestressed double tee canopy beam", Simulia (Abaqus) 2016 Science in the Age of Experience, Boston, MA

7) Wu,W., Fomunung, I, Owino,J.,Onyango, M. (2015), “Finite Element Modeling for Damage of Recycled Aggregate Concrete ”,Third International Conference on Civil Engineering, Architecture and Sustainable Infrastructure (ICCEASI 2015), July 1-3, 2015, Hongkong

8) Wu,W., Owino, J., Al-Ostaz, A. and Cai, L. (2014) " Applying periodic boundary conditions in Finite Element Analysis ", Simulia (Abaqus) Community Conference 2014, Providence, RI

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

1) Wu applied finite element numerical analysis to the New Orleans levee floodwall system to find structural solutions for construction or retrofitting for DHS project “Structural, material, and geotechnical solutions to levee and floodwall construction and retrofitting”. He created detailed three-dimension FE models of levee floodwall, steel sheet pile and embankment to model applicability of a composite cap solution to reinforce the individual floodwalls. (2008-2012).

2) Wu completed MS DOT project Inputs of Portland cement concrete parameters needed for the design and rehabilitated pavement in Mississippi while he was a graduate student.

3) Wu is recipient of UTC Ruth S. Holmberg Grant for Faculty Excellence Award (2016), the grant is about applying Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian (CEL) approach to model the liftup repair of highway sunken concrete pavement; he is also recipient of Faculty Research Grant (2015) which involves research on structural analysis to hybrid CNT- Graphene Sheet nano structure using FEA.

4) Wu is currently serving board member of Civil Engineering Journal. He contributes to the journal by acting as reviewer on Finite Element, mechanics of composites, infrastructure and concrete materials related research.

5) Reviewer of “CRC Press/ Taylor and Francis”. Wu has been invited to review at least 4 book proposals on FEA from the publisher. Wu also serves reviewer for “Journal of ASTM International”, “Journal of Testing and Evaluation”, and “Journal of Nanomechanics and Micromechanics”.

COLLABORATORS & OTHER AFFILIATIONS

(i) Collaborators

Profs. Aldo McLean, Ignatius Fomunung, Jennifer Ellis, Joseph Owino, Mbakisya Onyango, Kidambi Sreenivas, Yu Liang (University of Tennessee Chattanooga); Dean and Prof. Alexander Cheng (University of Mississippi); Profs. Ahmed Al-Ostaz, Joseph R. Gladden (University of Mississippi); Chung Song (University of Nebraska-Lincoln); Prof. David Hui (University of New Orleans); Prof. Z. John Ma (University of Tennessee Knoxville); Dr. Yan Ding (U.S Army Corps of Engineers-Coastal Hydraulic Laboratory); Dr. Guirong Liu (University of Cincinnati); Dr. Ge Wang (Honda R & D Americas)

(ii) Graduate Advisors:

• Dr. Alexander Cheng (Dean and Prof. of School of Engineering, University of Mississippi);

• Dr. Ahmed Al-Ostaz (Director of Nano Infrastructure Research Group at University of Mississippi)

• Dr. Chung Song (Professor in Geotechnical Engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

• Dr. Xin Dang (Professor in Statistics at University of Mississippi)

(iii) Graduate Advisors:

Phillip York (expected May. 2017); Weiran Yang (May 2016); Tyler Haraway(2015)

Asritha Sai Batchu (2015); Ausama Hashim ( 2014)

· Dr. Chung Song (Professor in Geotechnical Engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

· Dr. Xin Dang (Professor in Statistics at University of Mississippi)

(iii) Graduate Advisors:

Phillip York (expected May. 2017); Weiran Yang (May 2016); Tyler Haraway(2015)

Asritha Sai Batchu (2015); Ausama Hashim ( 2014)