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Hong Kong Sar

· FMEA and customer support in the application of Point-of-Load (PoL) power module.· Reliability assessment and failure analysis in the development SiC-based power converter.· Processing and packaging in the development GaN-based power converter.· Mechanical design, assembly and thermal management in the development of wireless power transfer system.

Hong Kong

· Course instructor of MECH 3030 Mechanisms of Machinery.· Position, velocity and acceleration analysis of planar linkages.· Design and synthesis of planar linkages.· Application of WorkingModel 2D, SolidWorks and MotionGen in the analysis and synthesis of simple linkages.

Hong Kong

· Fabricate nanocrystalline NiTi with a wide range of grain size (amorphous with nanocrystalline debris ~ 10 um) via cold-rolling and subsequent annealing.· Reveal the grain size dependence of stress-strain relation, Young’s modulus and hardness of nanocrystalline NiTi by macroscopic tension and microscopic nanoindentation.· Investigate the grain size effects on creep behavior of nanocrystalline NiTi at different stress levels and ambient conditions in uniaxial tension.· Fabricate grain-size-gradient NiTi via surface mechanical attrition treatment and characterize the distribution of grain size and in-plane compressive residual stress by TEM and XRD.· Examine the enhanced fatigue life and suppressed fatigue crack growth of the grain-size-gradient NiTi.

Hong Kong

· Set up a torsional vibration platform on MTS machine with synchronized acquisition from rotary motion sensor, high-speed camera and infrared camera.· Quantify the surface morphology and identify the internal heat source of NiTi wire during martensitic phase transition in pure torsion by digital image correlation and infrared thermography.· Identify the dominant heat transfer method and determine the characteristic heat convection time between NiTi wire and the ambient in electric resistance heating.· Reveal the simultaneous jump phenomena of thermomechanical responses on FRC and ARC in the frequency and amplitude domains for the nonlinear vibration system with NiTi wire.· Investigate the effects of mechanical excitation (amplitude and frequency) and external disturbance (magnitude and direction) on triggering the jump phenomena in the time domain.· Establish an effective Duffing oscillation model and perform a lumped heat transfer analysis to quantify the thermomechanical responses of the nonlinear vibration system with NiTi wire.· Manipulate the undesired jump phenomena of thermomechanical responses for the nonlinear vibration system with nanocrystalline NiTi through grain refinement.

Shanghai City, China

· Identify the major sources of undesired vibration and noise on machine tool by experiments.· Optimize the geometric dimension of key structures and introduce NiTi components for vibration isolation.· Evaluate the enhanced performance of machine tool and write the project report.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering