Dr HENRY TAN
Senior Lecturer
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Biography
Dr. Tan is a Senior Lecturer in Safety & Reliability Engineering, and Subsea Engineering, of the School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen; a Guest Professor of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, China; and a member of the American Society for Quality.
Prior to joining Aberdeen, Dr. Tan was a Lecturer in Extreme Loading and Design at the University of Manchester, England (2007-2009); a Research Scientist of the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (2003-2007); a Guest Professor of the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (2004-2006); an Assistant Professor of the Deparment of Mechanical Engineeering, Louisiana State Universuity, USA (2001-2003); and a Research Assistant Professor of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah, USA (2000-2001).
Dr. Tan has broad interests in research. Some achievements are listed as follow:
1. Dr. Tan’s work, published in Physical Review Letters etc., that combines the theoretical and experimental approaches to study the surface-roughness evolution caused by the stress in nanoscale chemical etching, found many applications, of cross-disciplinary in technologies including (papers in the following brackets cited the work of Kim, Hurtado and Tan):
Manufacturing
• chemical mechanical polishing (Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings 867, 275-280; International Journal of Solids and Structures 44, 7924-7937; CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology 55, 605-608; Key Engineering Materials 270-273, 1779-1784)Biomedical technology
• orthopaedic implants (Experimental Mechanics 47, 395-403)
• tissue engineering (Nanomedicine 1, 73-90)
• metallic implants in the corrosive physiological environment (Wear 263, 1117-1123; Acta Biomaterialia 4, 296-304)
• plasma-aided micro- and nanopatterning for biomedical applications (Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 20, 045005; Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials 11, 1163-1169; Thin Solid Films 517, 3954-3957)MEMS technology
• micro-electrical and mechanical systems (Journal of Materials Science, 38, 4145-4155; International Journal of Fracture 151, 269-279; Sensors and Actuators A: Physical 121, 121-130; Mechanics of Materials 36, 35-44; Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings 794, 253-258; Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings 687, 29-34)
• silicon-based integrated circuits (Plasma Science and Technology 12, 673-676)
• magnetic storage and optoelectronic devices (JOM 60, 54-58)
• heteroepitaxial thin film growth (Applied Physics Letters 92, 081908)
• short wavelength light emitting diodes and laser diodes (Experimental Mechanics 43, 289-302)Nanotechnology
• nanostructured materials (Thin Solid Films, 423, 136-145)
• ultraviolet nanoimprint lithography (Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 20, 045005)Tectonic engineering
• earthquake behaviour (Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68, 3317-3325)
• tectonic engineering (The Geological Society of London Special Publication 200, 73-83; Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 64, 416061-416065; Geophysical Research Letters 28, 603-606)Measurement tools
• microscopic stress measurement (Journal of Applied Physics, 87, 1211–1218; Key Engineering Materials 187, 1-8)
• glass microscope (Physics and Chemistry of Glasses - European Journal of Glass Science and Technology Part B, 449-18)Corrosion protection
• Environmentally assisted cracking (International Journal of Fracture, 165, 211-221; International Journal of Solids and Structures, 47, 1838-1846; Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures , 34, 227-239; American Journal of Science, 303, 956-971; Engineering Fracture Mechanics 75, 440-451; International Journal of Solids and Structures 44, 1880-1890; International Journal of Solids and Structures 38, 5185-5203; Interface Science 9, 93-104)
• porous anodic oxides (Electrochemistry Communications 12, 1174-1176)Energy
• magnetic and inertial fusion energy systems (Fusion Science and Technology 52, 579-583)
• solid-state nuclear track detection (Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 268, 165-171)
2. He is one of the pioneers in combined atomistic and continuum simulation of the material fracture process. Because of this achievement he was awarded National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation by the State Council of China in 1999, and the First Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award (with Professors Wei Yang and Keh-Chih Hwang etc. of Tsinghua University) by the State Education Commission of China.
3. His work on highly packed particulate composites, published on the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids etc., was cited in journal articles by scientists in the USA, UK, China, Germany, France, Canada, Japan, Greece, Czech, Sweden, Italy and South Africa.
Dr. Tan supervised Engineering Doctorates (EngD) and PhDs on subjects including safety and risk management in subsea engineering and other energy industries, environmental protection and condition monitoring. He taught courses, such as Subsea Integrity, Fundamental Safety Engineering and Risk Management Concepts, Simulation in Materials, Fluid Dynamics, Materials and Structures, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Deformation and Fracture of Engineering Materials, Explosion Engineering, Aircraft Structural Analysis, Mechanical Design, Computation, Engineering Materials Laboratory, Plasticity, Impact of Cellular Materials, Research Methodology, etc., at institutions world widely including:
- School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Scotland;
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana State University, USA;
- School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester, England;
- International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Udine, Italy; and
- School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, China.
Dr. Tan is a naturalized Chinese American under the first preference as a "scientist with extraordinary ability". He received his academic training from Brown University, USA, and Tsinghua University, China.
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Research Interests
Current focuses: subsea integrity, mechanical behaviour of highly packed particulate composites.
Works done in nanomechancs of materials, multiscale simulation and micromechanics of materials.
Discussion leader at iMechanica forums, Harvard University:
An interesting puzzle, multiscale mechanics, 2007
Themodynamics of nanoscale small systems, 2007
Impact behaviour of materials with cellular structures, 2009
Mechanical behaviour of highly packed particulate composites, 2010
Highly packed particulate composites
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Teaching Responsibilities
MSc course, Subsea Integrity
MSc course, Fundamental Safety Engineering and Risk Management Concepts
Fluid Dynamics
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