Education:
Sep. 2005-Jul. 2009, BS in School of Material Science and Engineering, Shandong University
Sep. 2009-Jan. 2015, PhD in Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University
Prizes and Awards:
[1] Excellent Doctoral Dissertation, Tsinghua University 2015
[2] "Gao Tian" Scholarship, Second Prize, Tsinghua University 2010,2014 (Twice)
[3] Youth Outstanding Paper Award, Beijing Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2015
[4] Excellent graduates in Shandong Province, Shandong Province 2009
[5] Excellent student in Shandong Province, Shandong Province 2007,2008 (Twice)
[6] National Scholarship, China 2007
[7] President Scholarship, Shandong University 2007
[8] Top Ten League Member, Shandong University 2007
[9] Prominent student in summer practice, Shandong University 2007
[10] Excellent student cadre, Shandong University 2006,2007,2008 (Thrice)
[11] Student Scholarship, First prize, Shandong University 2006,2007,2008 (Thrice)
Publications:
[1] YN Cui, ZL Liu, Z Zhuang. Theoretical and numerical investigations on confined plasticity in
micropillars. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2015, 76: 127-143
[2] YN Cui, ZL Liu, ZJ Wang, Z Zhuang. Atypical dislocation behavior under low amplitude cyclic loading:
experiment, simulation and theoretical model. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, (accepted)
[3] YN Cui, ZL Liu, Z Zhuang. Quantitative investigations on dislocation based discrete-continuous model
of crystal plasticity at submicron scale. International Journal of Plasticity , 2015, 69, 54-72
[4] YN Cui, P Lin, ZL Liu, Z Zhuang. Theoretical and numerical investigations of single arm dislocation
source controlled plastic flow in FCC micropillars. International Journal of Plasticity, 2014, 55, 279-292
[5] YN Cui, ZL Liu, Z Zhuang. Dislocation Multiplication by Single Cross Slipfor FCC at Submicron Scales.
Chinese Physics Letters, 2013, 30(4), 046103
[6] ZJ Wang, QJ Li, YN Cui, ZL Liu, E Ma, J Li, J Sun, Z Zhuang, M Dao, ZW Shan, S Suresh. Cyclic
deformation leads to defect healing and strengthening of small-volume metal crystals. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences. 2015, 112(44) 13502-13507
[7] P Lin, ZL Liu, YN Cui, Z Zhuang. A stochastic crystal plasticity model with size-dependent and
intermittent strain bursts characteristics at micron scale. Heal submicron-sized Al single crystal through
low amplitude cyclic loading. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2015, 69-70, 267-276
[8] JQ Hu, ZL Liu, YN Cui, ZJ Wang, ZW Shan, Z Zhuang. Sensitive material behavior: theoretical model
and experiment for compression collapse of gold particles at submicron scale, Journal of Applied
Mechanics, 2014, 81, 091007
[9] Z Zhuang, YN Cui, Y Gao, ZL Liu. Advances in discrete dislocation mechanism on submicro crystal
atypical plasticity. Advances in Mechanics, 2011 (Chinese Journal)
[10] YN Cui, Y Gao, ZL Liu, Z Zhuang. Developing multi-scale model to study atypical crystal plastic
behavior, Advances in Heterogeneous Material Mechanics ICHMM-2011, DEStech Publications, 730-737.
(International conference)
[11] YN Cui, et al. Investigation of single arm source controlled plastic flow in FCC micropillar by discrete
dislocation dynamics and theoretical analysis. WCCM XI 2014 (International conference)
