Jiong Wang

Jiong Wang, Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at South China University of Technology
Jiong Wang‘s research focuses on the mechanical properties of hyperelastic materials and smart materials, with particular emphasis on complex mechanical behaviors such as material growth deformation, deformation instability, martensitic phase transformation, and multi-field coupled responses. He has led three projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars, and the Guangdong Special Support Program for Young Top-Notch Talents in Science and Technology Innovation, among other national and provincial-level projects. He has published over 60 academic papers in SCI-indexed journals such as J. Mech. Phys. Solids, Int. J. Solids Struct., and Int. J. Eng. Sci., authored one academic monograph, obtained six authorized invention patents, and received the Second Prize of the Guangdong Natural Science Award.

Currently, he serves as the Head of the Department of Engineering Mechanics at South China University of Technology, Executive Council Member of the Guangdong Society of Mechanics, Member of the Soft Matter Mechanics Working Group of the Chinese Society of Mechanics, and Youth Editorial Board Member (Deputy Director) of the journal Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. In recent years, his main research achievements include:
(1) Proposing a novel finite-strain plate/shell theory suitable for growth (swelling/expansion) deformation of soft material plates/shells;
(2) Conducting inverse problem studies on growth deformation of soft material plates/shells, establishing theoretical and numerical schemes for controlling the configuration evolution of plate/shell samples;
(3) Developing a variational modeling approach based on Hamilton’s principle for constructing multi-physics coupled models for novel smart materials such as magnetic shape memory alloys;
(4) Investigating the thermodynamic response characteristics of polyelectrolyte hydrogel materials using both macroscopic viscoelastic models and microscopic molecular dynamics simulations.