Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University
Composite and Hybrid Materials, Nanomaterial Processing and Characterisation, Numerical Modelling and Mechanical Characterisation and Nanomechanics
PhD (Mechanical Engineering), the University of Auckland, New Zealand,
2008.
ME (1st Class Honours, Mechanical Engineering), the University of Auckland,
New Zealand, 2002.
BE (Mechanical Engineering and Automation), Wuhan University of Science and
Technology (WUST), P.R.China, 2000
Dr. Yu (Roger) Dong is currently a Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Curtin University. Roger graduated with a BE degree from Wuhan University of Science and Technology (WUST), China in 2000. Then he moved to New Zealand to complete both the ME degree with First Class Honours in 2002 and the PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2008 at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His orally presented paper entitled “characterisation and object-oriented finite element modelling of polypropylene/organoclay nanocomposites” was selected for the Best Paper Silver Award at the 5th Asian-Australasian Conference on Composite Materials (ACCM-5) held in Hong Kong, 2006. In 2007, he was also nominated for “MARQUIS Who’s Who in the World” and for MacDiarmid Young Scientists of the Year Awards, Foundation for Research Science and Technology (FRST), New Zealand. He is a Member of Editorial Boards for International Journal of Polymers and Technologies, Journal of Modern Applied Science and Journal of Applied Physics Research. To recognise his contribution in polymer nanocomposite area, he was appointed as a Member of Organising Committee for the Nineteenth International Symposium on Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials (PFAM XIX), Auckland, New Zealand, January 14-17, 2011. Roger was the sole editor with pride for new technical book entitled “Nanostructures: Properties, Production Methods and Applications” by Nova Science Publishers (to appear in 2012). Due to the outstanding research output in 2010, he was the Prize Recipient of Highest RPI Points for Publication for an Early Career Researcher (ECR) at Curtin Faculty of Science and Engineering in November 2011.
Roger is actively affiliated to several global engineering professional bodies as members of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Society of Plastic Engineers (SPE), USA, Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN), UK and Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE) as well as a key researcher for the ATN-ISTA Australia-China NanoNetwork and Australian Research Network for Advanced Materials (ARNAM). He serves as a selected reviewer for Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters, Journal of Materials Science and Engineering A, Journal of Composite Materials, Journal of Composites Part B, Chemical Engineering Journal, International Journal of Engineering and Journal of Nanomaterials.
● Polymer Nanocomposites
● Electrospun nanofibers/nanocomposites
● Multiscale modelling of
morphological based micro/nanostructures
● Representative volume element (RVE)
● Polymer process modelling and
statistical design of experiments (DoE)
Y. Dong, D. Chaudhary, H. Haroosh and T. Bickford, Development and characterisation of novel
electrospun polylactic acid/tubular clay nanocomposites, J. Mater. Sci., 46 (2011) 6148-6153.
Y. Dong, D. Chaudhary, C. Ploumis and K. T. Lau, Correlation of mechanical
performance and the morphological structures of epoxy micro/nanoparticulate composites,
Compos. Pt. A-Appl. Sci. Manuf. 42 (2011) 1483-1492.
Y. Dong and D. Bhattacharyya, A simple micromechanical approach to
predict mechanical behaviour of polypropylene/organoclay nanocomposites
based on representative volume element (RVE). Comput. Mater. Sci., in
press. (DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2010.03.049) [IF=1.549; ERA 2010 Ranking:
A]
Y. Dong and D. Bhattacharyya, Mapping the real micro/nanostructures for the
prediction of elastic moduli of polypropylene/clay nanocomposites.
Polymer 51 (2010) 816-824. [IF=3.331; ERA 2010 Ranking: A]
Y. Dong and D. Bhattacharyya, Dual role of maleated polypropylene in
processing and material characterisation of polypropylene /clay
nanocomposites. Mater. Sci. Eng. A- Struct. Mater. Prop. Microstruct.
Process. 527 (2010) 1617-1622. [IF=1.806; ERA 2010 Ranking: A*]
Y. Dong, D. Bhattacharyya and P. J. Hunter, Experimental characterisation
and object-oriented finite element modelling of polypropylene/organoclay
nanocomposites. Compos. Sci. Technol. 68 (2008) 2864-2875. [IF=2.533;
ERA 2010 Ranking: A*; 4 citations]
Y. Dong and D. Bhattacharyya, Effects of clay type, clay/compatibiliser
content and matrix viscosity on the mechanical properties of polypropylene/organoclay
nanocomposites. Compos. Pt. A-Appl. Sci. Manuf. 39 (2008)1177-1191.
[IF=1.951; ERA 2010 Ranking: A; 3 citations]