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Yuanli Bai

Yuanli Bai

Professor

Email: yuanli.bai@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-4548
Office: ENG I, Room 214

Lab of Solid and Structure Mechanics

Yuanli Bai is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UCF. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2008. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Department of Automotive Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2000 and 2003, respectively. While at MIT, he worked under the supervision of Professor Tomasz Wierzbicki, the director of Impact and Crashworthiness Lab, on plasticity and ductile fracture mechanics of materials. Prior to joining UCF in 2011, he was a mechanical engineer at General Electric Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York.

Dr. Bai’s current research is focused on plasticity, fracture and fatigue testing, modeling and simulation for various engineering materials, including lightweight alloys, metallic matrix nano composites, polymer matrix composites, soft tissue materials, and recently virus/proteins. He operates the Lab of Solid and Structure Mechanics under the MAE department. Dr. Bai has published over 100 papers in the field’s most highly rated journals and conference proceedings.

  • Mechanics of materials (especially plasticity and fracture)
  • Computational mechanics
  • Lightweight design and metal sheet forming
  • Structural impact and vehicle crashworthiness
  • Virus mechanics
  • Sun, Y. Akçay, F.A., Wu, D. and Bai, Y., “Analytical and Numerical Modeling on Strengths of Aluminum and Magnesium Micro Lattice Structures Fabricated via Additive Manufacturing”. Progress in Additive Manufacturing, (2024): 1-14.
  • Zhou, Q., Song, S., Chen, Q., Bai, Y., ” Experimental, Numerical and Analytical Studies on Wire Extrusion Processes Considering Friction Effects”. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 130, no. 7 (2024): 3929-3944.
  • Xue, Lufeng, Wang Cai, Yeting Sun, Marcelo Paredes, Chaoyang Sun, and Yuanli Bai. “The influence of heat treatment on microstructure and mechanical response of a newly developed non-equimolar AlCrCuFeNi high-entropy alloy: Experiments and numerical modeling.” Materials Characterization 207 (2024): 113544.
  • Nonn, A., Kiss, B., Pezeshkian, W., Tancogne-Dejean, T., Cerrone, A., Kellermayer, M., Bai, Y., Li, W., and Wierzbicki, T. “Inferring Mechanical Properties of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus Particle with Nano-Indentation Tests and Numerical Simulations”, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 148 (2023): 106153.
  • Ghazali, S., Algarni, M., Bai, Y., “A Micro-Macro Mixed GTN-MMC Model to Study Plasticity and Fracture of AISI 4340 Steel”, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 127 (2023): 104059.
  • Grasso, M., Bai, Y., Brighton, J., Carless, O., & StLeger-Harris, C. (2023). Numerical simulation of plasticity in double lap metallic bolted joints. Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, 1-20.
  • Wierzbicki, T., Bai, Y., Finite Element modeling of alpha-helices and tropocollagen molecules with reference to the spike of SARS-CoV-2, Biophysical Journal, accepted for publications, May 2022.
  • Luo, X., Zhao, K., He, X., Bai, Y., De Andrade, V., Zaiser, M., Liu, J. (2022). Evading strength and ductility trade-off in an inverse nacre structured magnesium matrix nanocomposite. Acta Materialia, 228, 117730
  • Lee, J., Choi, Y., & Bai, Y. (2022). Investigation on High Velocity Impact of Projectile on Double Layered Geomaterial. KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 26(5), 2089-2096.
  • Song, S., He, X., Zhou, Q., Ren, L., Chen, Q., & Bai, Y. (2021). Analytical models of the strength and ductility of CNT reinforced metal matrix nano composites under elevated temperatures. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 813, 141078.
  • Mehta, A., Zhou, L., Huynh, T., Park, S., Hyer, H., Song, S., Bai, Y., Imholte, D.D., Woolstenhulme, N.E., Wachs, D.M. and Sohn, Y., 2021. Additive manufacturing and mechanical properties of the dense and crack free Zr-modified aluminum alloy 6061 fabricated by the laser-powder bed fusion. Additive Manufacturing, 41, p.101966.
  • Hyer, H., Zhou, L., Liu, Q., Wu, D., Song, S., Bai, Y., McWilliams, B., Cho, K. and Sohn, Y., 2021. High strength WE43 microlattice structures additively manufactured by laser powder bed fusion. Materialia, 16, p.101067.
  • Hyer, H., Zhou, L., Mehta, A., Park, S., Huynh, T., Song, S., Bai, Y., Cho, K., McWilliams, B., Sohn, Y. (2021). “Composition-Dependent Solidification Cracking of Aluminum-Silicon Alloys During Laser Powder Bed Fusion”. Acta Materialia, 116698.
  • Zhou, Q., Song, S., Chen, Q., Bai, Y., “Numerical and analytical studies on hot compaction and vibration assisted compaction tests of aluminum powder”. ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, 143 (1), 2021.
  • Akçay, F.A., Wu, D. and Bai, Y., 2020. Comprehensive Studies on Strength of 3D-printed Aluminum Micro Lattice Structures. Procedia Structural Integrity, 28, pp.1399-1406.
  • Song, S., Billah, M., Zhou, Q., Ren, L., Zheng, L., Chen, Q., Bai, Y., “Study on the Strengthening Mechanisms of Aluminum Matrix Nano-Composites Reinforced by Ni-Coated CNTs”. Composite Interfaces, 2020, 1-22.
  • Zhou, L., Hyer, H., Sharon, P., Song, S, Bai, Y., Sohn, Y., ” Laser powder bed fusion of Al – 10 wt.% Ce alloys: microstructure and tensile property “, Journal of Materials Science, 2020 Oct; 55(29):14611-25.
  • He, X., Song, S., Luo, X., Liu, J., An, L., Bai. Y., “Predicting ductility of Mg/SiCp nanocomposite under multiaxial loading conditions based on unit cell modeling”, International Journal of Mechanical Science, Volume 184, 15 October 2020, 105831.
  • Ghazali, S., Algarni, M., Choi, Y., Bai, Y., “Study on the plasticity and fracture of AISI 4340 steel under different loading conditions and considering heat treatment effects”, International Journal of Fracture, 2020 Sept; 225 (1), 69-87.
  • Algarni, M., Bai, Y., Zwawi, M., and Ghazali, S.. “Damage evolution due to extremely low-cycle fatigue for inconel 718 alloy.” Metals9, no. 10 (2019): 1109.
  • Yu, T., Hyer, H., Sohn, Y., Bai, Y., Wu, D., ” Structure-property relationship in high strength and lightweight AlSi10Mg microlattices fabricated by selective laser melting”, Materials and Design, 182 (2019) 108062.
  • Yu, T., Zhang, Z., Song, S., Bai, Y., Wu, D., “Tensile and flexural behaviors of additively manufactured continuous carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composites”, Composite Structures, 225 (2019) 111147.
  • Zhou, L., Hyer, H., Sharon, P., Pan, H., Bai, Y., Rice, K., Sohn, Y., “Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Zr-modified Aluminum Alloy 5083 Manufactured by Laser Powder Bed Fusion”, Additive Manufacturing, 28 (2019), 485-496.
  • Liang, W., He, X., Reddy, N.R., Bai, Y., An, L., Fang, J., “Morphology Transformation of Supramolecular Structures in Aqueous Mixtures of Two Oppositely Charged Amphiphiles”, Langmuir (ACS publications), 2019, 35, 9004-9010.
  • Xiao, X., Pan, H., Bai, Y., Lou, Y., Chen, L., “Application of the modified Mohr–Coulomb fracture criterion in predicting the ballistic resistance of 2024-T351 aluminum alloy plates impacted by blunt projectiles”, International Journal of Impact Engineering, vol. 123 (2019) 26-37.
  • Zhou, L., Pan, H., Hyer, H., Park, S., Bai, Y., McWilliams, B., Cho, K., Sohn, Y.H., “Microstructure and Tensile Property of a Novel Al-Zn-Mg-Sc-Zr Alloy Additively Manufactured by Gas Atomization and Laser Powder Bed Fusion,” Scripta Materialia, Vol. 158 (2019) 24-28.
  • Qiao, Y., Bai, Y., “A Review on Failure Modeling Methods of Fiber Reinforced Polymer Matrix Composites”, Journal of Automotive Safety and Energy, December 2018, 9(1):1-10.
  • Liang, K., Marcus, K., Yang, Z., Zhou, L., Pan, H., Bai, Y., Du, Y., Engelhard, M., Yang, Y., “Freestanding NiFe Oxyfluoride Holey Film with Ultrahigh Volumetric Capacitance for Flexible Asymmetric Supercapacitors, Small, 2018, 14(3).
  • Norfleet, J., Stern, E., Bai, Y., “Tissue Performance Characteristics: Closing the Fidelity Gap in Medical Simulations”, Journal of Trauma & Treatment, 2017, 6(3).
  • Jia, Y., Qiao, Y., Maung, A., Argueta-Morales, R., Norfleet, J., Bai, Y., Divo, E., Kassab, A.J., DeCampli, W.M, “Experimental Study of Anisotropic Stress/Strain Relationships of the Human Great Vessels”, ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 139(10): 101003 (Aug 16, 2017) (10 pages).
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  • Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award, University of Central Florida, 2022.
  • Research Incentive Award (RIA), University of Central Florida, 2019.
  • Excellent in graduate teaching, University of Central Florida, 2019.
  • U.S. Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2013
  • The first-class winner of the Asian-Pacific American Forum Growth Competition, General Electric, 2009
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • Society of Automotive Engineers
  • Society for Experimental Mechanics
  • North American Deep Drawing Group
  • EGM 3601: Solid Mechanics
  • EML 3500: Machine Design and Analysis
  • EML 4700C/EML 4701C: Senior Design I and II
  • EML 5237: Intermediate Mechanics of Materials
  • EML 5937: Turbomachinery Integrity and Reliability
  • EML 6067: Finite Element Analysis (FEA-I)
  • EML 6068: Nonlinear Finite Elements Analysis (FEA-II)
  • EML 6211: Continuum Mechanics
  • EGM 6653: Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity
  • EML 5090: MAE Graduate Seminars