🔬 Global Postdoctoral Researcher @ Czech Technical University
🎓 Ph.D. @ University of Technology Sydney
💡 Research interests: Computational Mechanics, Phase field fracture, Additive Manufacturing, and Experimental Mechanics
- Constitutive models for metallic, quasi-brittle, and soft materials
- Phase-field fracture model using both implicit and explicit solver
- Finite Element Method (FEM) implementation using C++/Fortran
- Material calibration, simulation, and validation
- Structural design and analysis of TPMS metamaterials
- Process-structure-property relationship modeling in AM
- Mechanical testing with Instron and Zwick Roell machines
- Digital Image Correlation (DIC)
- Microstructure characterization
- Li, C. et. al. (2025), Phase field fracture in elastoplastic solids: A stress-state, strain-rate, and orientation dependent model in explicit dynamics and its applications to additively manufactured metals. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 197, 105978.
- Li, C. et. al. (2024), On fracture mechanism of additively manufactured triply periodic minimal surface structures using an explicit phase field model. Additive Manufacturing, 86, 104192.
- Li, C. et. al. (2024), Phase field fracture in elasto-plastic solids: Considering complex loading history for crushing simulations. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 268, 108994.
- Li, C. et. al. (2023), Phase field fracture model for additively manufactured metallic materials. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 251, 108324.
- Li, C. et. al. (2022), Phase field fracture in elasto-plastic solids: Incorporating phenomenological failure criteria for ductile materials. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 391, 114580.