Dr. Xiaosheng Gao
Title: Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Programs
Dept/Program: Mechanical Engineering
Office: ASEC 325
Phone: 330-972-2415
Email: xgao@uakron.edu
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Biography
Dr. Gao joined UA in 2001. He previously served as an assistant professor at the Northwestern Polytechnical ÈÕº«¹ú²úav¸£Àû (China), a visiting scholar at the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), a visiting professor at the National ÈÕº«¹ú²úav¸£Àû of Singapore, and as a Summer Faculty Fellow with the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Gao is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and has received the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award.
Research
Mechanics of materials and structures, constitutive modeling of advanced materials, computational mechanics, fatigue and fracture mechanics, micromechanics, multi-scale modeling of damage & failure and material characterization with microstructure
Education
- Ph.D. Brown ÈÕº«¹ú²úav¸£Àû 1998
- M.S. Brown ÈÕº«¹ú²úav¸£Àû 1995
- M.S. Xi'an Jiaotong ÈÕº«¹ú²úav¸£Àû 1990
- B.S. Xi'an Jiaotong ÈÕº«¹ú²úav¸£Àû 1987
Courses
Dynamics, Kinematics of Machines, Analysis of Mechanical Components, Introduction to Finite Element Method, Continuum Mechanics, Finite Element Analysis I, Finite Element Analysis II