Publications and Presentations
Journal Publications
Luo, W., Pellegrino, S., 2022. Formation and Propagation of Buckles in Coilable Cylindrical Thin Shells with a Thickness Discontinuity, International Journal of Solids and Structures, p.112010.
Luo, W., Le, J.L., Rasoolinejad, M. and Bažant, Z.P., 2021. Coefficient of Variation of Shear Strength of RC Beams and Size Effect. Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 147(2), p.04020144.
Luo, W., Bažant, Z.P., 2020. General Fishnet Statistics of Strength: Nacreous, Biomimetic, Concrete, Octet-truss, and Other Architected or Quasibrittle Materials. Journal of Applied Mechanics, 87(3).
Luo, W., and Bažant, Z.P., 2019. Fishnet statistical size effect on strength of materials with nacreous microstructure. Journal of Applied Mechanics, 86(8), p.081006.
Luo, W., Chau, V.T. and Bažant, Z.P., 2019. Effect of high-rate dynamic comminution on penetration of projectiles of various velocities and impact angles into concrete. International Journal of Fracture, pp.1-11.
Luo, W. and Bažant, Z.P., 2018. Fishnet model with order statistics for tail probability of failure of nacreous biomimetic materials with softening interlaminar links. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 121, pp.281-295.
Luo, W. and Bažant, Z.P., 2017. Fishnet model for failure probability tail of nacre-like imbricated lamellar materials. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(49), pp.12900-12905.
Luo, W. and Bažant, Z.P., 2017. Fishnet statistics for probabilistic strength and scaling of nacreous imbricated lamellar materials. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 109, pp.264-287.
Bažant, Z.P., Luo, W., Chau, V.T. and Bessa, M.A., 2016. Wave dispersion and basic concepts of peridynamics compared to classical nonlocal damage models. Journal of Applied Mechanics, 83(11), p.111004.
Conference Presentations
"Buckling Analysis of a Deployable Structure Supporting a Prestressed Film." AIAA SciTech Conference, National Harbor, MD-1/2023
``Formation and Propagation of Buckles during Coiling of Cylindrical Thin Shells with Thickness Discontinuities." 19th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC TAM), Austin, TX-6/2022
"Propagating Instabilities in Coilable Booms." AIAA SciTech Conference, Special Session in honor of Prof. Johann Arbocz, San Diego, CA-1/2022
"Quasibrittle failure probability at 10-6 Tail: fishnet model for nacreous material architecture and its scaling." Society of Engineering Science (SES) Anual Technical Conference, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, Prager Medal Symposium Section Keynote-10/2019
``Fishnet statistical size effect on strength of materials with nacreous microstructure.", Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Conference, Caltech, Pasadena, CA-06/2019
``Fishnet probabilistic model for the strength distribution of nacre-like biomimetic materials: from extreme value theorem to order statistics", the “Bridging the Gap” seminar by Northwestern University student chapter of Society for Industrial and Applied Math (SIAM), Evanston, IL-06/2019
``(Poster) Inferring the strength distribution of nacreous Materials from statistical size effect", Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Solid and Structural Materials Modeling (USACM-UQ), Baltimore, MD-01/2019
``Concrete fragmentation driven by kinetic energy of forming particles", The 13th World Congress in Computational Mechanics (WCCM) 2018, New York City, NY-07/2018
``Fishnet model with order statistics for the tail probability of failure of nacreous biomimetic materials with softening interlaminar links'', Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA-04/2018
``Fishnet statistics for scaling and strength of nacre-like imbricated lamilar materials", International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE), Tampa, FL-11/2017