Contact Information
Professor Yi-Chung Shu (µÎ¶M©¾±Ð±Â)
Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan, R.O.C. (¥xÆW¤j¾ÇÀ³¥Î¤O¾Ç¬ã¨s©Ò)
Email	yichung@spring.iam.ntu.edu.tw
Office	Room 427 (À³¥Î¤O¾Ç¬ã¨s©Ò427«Ç)
Voice	+886-2-3366-5627
Fax	+886-2-2363-9290
Lab	Smart Materials and Energy Harvesting Laboratory (´¼¯à§÷®Æ»P¯à¶qÂ^¨ú¹êÅç«Ç¡A426«Ç)
Education
¡P Ph.D, Applied Mechanics/Materials Science, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 1998 ¡P MS, Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1992 ¡P BS, Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1990
Experience
¡P Professor, Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University, 2008-present ¡P Executive Editor, Journal of Mechanics, 2002-present ¡P Associate Professor, Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University, 2003-2008 ¡P Assistant Professor, Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University, 2000-2003 ¡P Assistant Scientist/Postdoctoral Scholar, Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, 1998-2000 ¡P Visiting Scientist, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 1999 ¡P Visiting Scientist, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, 1997-1998
Research Interests
¡P Multiscale Materials Modeling (¸ó¤Ø«×§÷®Æ¼ÒÀÀ¡GÂǥѧ÷®Æ·Lµ²ºcªºÆ[¹î¡B¤À§G»Pºt¤Æ¡A·Ç½T¹w´ú§÷®Æªº§»Æ[©Ê¯à¡A¨ÃÀ³¥Î©ó§÷®ÆªºÀu¤Æ³]p¤W¡C) ¡P Vibration-Based Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Systems (À£¹q®¶°Ê¯à¶qÂ^¨ú¡G§Q¥ÎÀô¹Ò¤¤ªºÂà°Ê©Î¾_°Êµ¥°Ê¯à¡A³z¹LÀ£¹q¯à¶qÂ^¨ú¾¹»²¥H¹q¸ôÀx¯à¨t²Î³]p¡A±N¾÷±ñ®¶°Ê¯àÂà´«¬°¹q¯à¨Ã¥[¥HÀx¦s¡C) ¡P Facility (»ö¾¹³]³Æ)
Honor and Awards
¡P Member of Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society, 1990 ¡P Special Institute Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, 1994-1995 ¡P Research Award by National Science Council, Taiwan, 2001 ¡P 10^th Anniversary Edition of Who¡¦s Who in Science and Engineering, 2008-2009 ¡P Highly Cited Paper (ISI Essential Science Indicators, Engineering, July 1, 2009):  Y. C. Shu and I. C. Lien. Analysis of Power Output for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Systems, Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 15, pp. 1499-1512, 2006. ¡P Highly Cited Paper (ISI Essential Science Indicators, Engineering, July 1, 2009):  Y. C. Shu, I. C. Lien and W. J. Wu.  An Improved Analysis of SSHI Interface in Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting. Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 16, pp. 2253-2264, 2007.
Professional Affiliation/Activities
¡P Society Member: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Materials Research Society (MRS), Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (STAM, R.O.C.), the Academic Committee Member of STAM ¡P Vice Secretary-General: the 28^th National Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Taipei, Taiwan, 2004 ¡P Local Organizing Committee Member: the 17^th International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies (ICAST), Taipei, Taiwan, 2006 ¡P Session Co-Chair (Energy Harvesting I): the SPIE's 14^th International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, San Diego, California, 2007 ¡P Session Co-Organizer (Continuum Theories I): the ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, Ellicott City, Maryland, 2008 ¡P Symposium Organizer (a symposium to honor Professor Chau-Shioung Yeh in his 70^th birthday, ¸¶W¶¯±Ð±Â70¤j¹Ø¬ã°Q·|): the 32^ndNational Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, 2008 ¡P   Committee Member of conference papers (²Ä32©¡¥þ°ê¤O¾Ç·|ij½×¤å©eû·|½×¤å©eû):  the 32^ndNational Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, 2008 ¡P   Committee Member of conference papers (²Ä33©¡¥þ°ê¤O¾Ç·|ij½×¤å©eû·|½×¤å©eû):  the 33^rdNational Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Miao-Li, Taiwan, 2009 ¡P Local Organizing Committee Member: the IUTAM symposium on Recent Advance of Acoustic Waves in Solids, Taipei, Taiwan, 2009 ¡P Plenary Speaker: the 17^th National Conference on Sound and Vibration, Taipei, Taiwan, June 6, 2009 (¤j·|ÁܽбMÃDºtÁ¿¡A²Ä¤Q¤C©¡¤¤µØ¥Á°ê®¶°Ê»P¾¸µ¤uµ{¾Ç³N¬ã°Q·|) ¡P Keynote Speaker: "Stress-induced phase transitions in smart materials: experiments, modeling,  analysis and simulation," the 16^th International Symposium on Plasticity, St. Kitts Marriott Resort, St. Christopher and Nevis, 2010 ¡P Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews (a division of the American Mathematical Society) ¡P Reviewer for 26 SCI journals including      (1) Mechanics: Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics¡BEuropean Journal of Mechanics A/Solid¡BExperimental Mechanics¡BInternational Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics¡BJournal of Mechanics¡BJournal of  Applied Mechanics¡BJournal of Micromechanics and Microengineering¡BJournal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids¡BMechanics of Materials (2) Materials/Applied Physics: Applied Physics Letters¡BJournal of Applied Physics¡BJournal of Magnetism and  Magnetic Materials¡BJournal of Materials Science¡BMaterials Chemistry and Physics       (3) Applied Mathematics: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis¡BSIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis   (4) Engineering: CMES: Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences¡BIEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and  Frequency Control¡BInternational Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics¡BJournal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures¡BJournal of Sound and Vibration¡BJournal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers¡BJournal of Vibration and Acoustics (ASME)¡BProceedings of the Royal Society, London Ser A¡BSensors & Actuators: A. Physical¡BSmart Materials and Structures ¡P Reviewer: the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference (2007 IDETC)¡Bthe 33^rd Annual Conference of    the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2007 IEEE IECON)¡Bthe Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies Conference (AMPT 2007)¡Bthe 32^nd National Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2008 STAM, R.O.C.)¡Bthe 26^th National Conference on Mechanical Engineering of CSME (2009 Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers, R.O.C.) ¡P Proposal Reviewer: National Science Council, Taiwan ¡P Proposal Reviewer: Research Grants Council, Hong Kong ¡P ½Æ¼f¼f¬d©eû (¤¤°ê¾÷±ñ¤uµ{¾Ç·|©e°U¿ì²z¡u²Ä¤T©¡¤W»È¬ì§Þ¾÷±ñºÓ¤h½×¤å¼ú¡v)
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Research Projects
¡P A Novel Phase-Field Simulation of Strain-Dominated Microstructure (µo®i·s¦¡¬Û³õªk¼ÒÀÀÀ³ÅÜ¥D±±·Lµ²ºcºt¤Æ¤§¬ã¨s¡A2008-2011¡ANSC) ¡P On the Development of Piezoelectric Vibration-Based Energy Harvesting (À£¹q¤¸¥ó®¶°Ê¯à¶qÂ^¨ú¤§¤ÀªR¬ã¨s¡A2007-2010¡ANSC) ¡P Wireless Health Advanced Monitoring Bio-Diagnosis, WHAM-BioS, Phase II (¥ý¶iµL½u³q°T¥ÍÂå°·±dºÊ´ú¨t²Î¤§¶}µo¡A2005-2008¡AMinistry of Economics) ¡P Micromechanics of Novel Shape-Memory Alloys (¥H·L¤O¾Ç¼ÒÀÀ·sªº§Îª¬°O¾Ð¦Xª÷¯S©Ê¤§¬ã¨s¡A2005-2008¡ANSC)
Courses
Elasticity (¼u©Ê¤O¾Ç) Microstructure of Smart Materials (´¼¼z«¬§÷®Æ·Lµ²ºc¤ÀªR) Introduction to Phase-Field Modeling (¬Û³õªk¾É½×) Introduction to Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting (À£¹q®¶°Ê¯à¶qÂ^¨ú¾É½×) Microstructure and Macroscopic Behavior of Materials (§÷®Æ·Lµ²ºc»P§»Æ[¦æ¬°¤ÀªR) Symmetry and Physical Properties of Materials (´¹Åé¹ïºÙ©Ê¤Î¨äª«²z¯S©Ê)
Students
Dr. J. H. Yen (ÃCºÍ¦ë³Õ¤h) I. C. Lien (Ph.D. candidate¡A³s¯q¼y³Õ¤hÔ¿ï¤H) H. Z. Chen (Ph.D. candidate¡A³¯§»§Ó³Õ¤hÔ¿ï¤H) P. H. Wu (Ph.D. student¡A§dªÃ¾Ë³Õ¤h¥Í)
Publications
¡@ A.  Journal Papers  (*: corresponding author) ¡P J. Shieh, J. A. Lin and  Y. C. Shu. A Temperature-Dependent Study on the Polarization-Free Straining of Barium Titanate Single Crystals. Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 18, Art. No. 104018, 2009. ¡P J. Shieh, J. H. Yeh, Y. C. Shu and J. H. Yen. Hysteresis Behaviors of Barium Titanate Single Crystals Based on the Operation of Multiple 90^o Switching Systems. Materials Science and Engineering B, Vol. 161, pp. 50-54, 2009. ¡P L. J. Li, J. Y. Li, Y. C. Shu and J. H. Yen. The Magnetoelectric Domains and Cross-Field Switching in Multiferroic BiFeO3. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 93, Art. No. 192506, 2008. ¡P Y. C. Shu* and J. H. Yen. Multivariant Model of Martensitic Microstructure in Thin Films. Acta Materialia, Vol. 56, pp. 3969-3981, 2008. ¡P J. H. Yen, Y. C. Shu*, J. Shieh and J. H. Yeh.  A Study of Electromechanical Switching in Ferroelectric Single Crystals. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol. 56, pp. 2117-2135, 2008. ¡P L. J. Li, J. Y. Li, Y. C. Shu, H. Z. Chen and J. H. Yen. Magnetoelastic Domains and Magnetic Field-Induced Strains in Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloys by Phase-Field Simulation. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, Art. No. 172504, 2008. ¡P Y. C. Shu*, J. H. Yen, H. Z. Chen, J. Y. Li and L. J. Li.  Constrained Modeling of Domain Patterns in Rhombohedral Ferroelectrics. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, Art. No. 052909, 2008. ¡P Y. C. Shu*, I. C. Lien and W. J. Wu.  An Improved Analysis of SSHI Interface in Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting. Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 16, pp. 2253-2264, 2007. ¡P J. Shieh, J. H. Yeh, Y. C. Shu and J. H. Yen. Operation of Multiple 90¢X Switching Systems in Barium Titanate Single Crystals under Electromechanical Loading. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 91, Art No. 062901, 2007. ¡P Y. C. Shu* and J. H. Yen. Pattern Formation in Martensitic Thin Films. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 91, Art No. 021908, 2007. ¡P Y. C. Shu*, J. H. Yen, J. Hsieh and J. H. Yeh. Effect of Depolarization and Coercivity on Actuation Strains due to Domain Switching in Barium Titanate. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 90, Art No. 172902, 2007. ¡P Y. C. Shu* and I. C. Lien. Analysis of Power Output for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Systems. Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 15, pp. 1499-1512, 2006. ¡P Y. C. Shu* and I. C. Lien. Efficiency of Energy Conversion for a Piezoelectric Power Harvesting System. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 16, pp. 2429-2438, 2006. ¡P Y. C. Shu*, M. P. Lin and K. C. Wu. Micromagnetic Modeling of Magnetostrictive Materials under Intrinsic Stress. Mechanics of Materials, Vol. 36, pp. 975-997, 2004. ¡P Y. C. Shu*. Strain Relaxation in an Alloy Film with a Rough Free Surface. Journal of Elasticity, Vol. 66, pp. 63-92, 2002. ¡P Y. C. Shu*. Shape-Memory Micropumps. Materials Transactions, Vol. 43, pp. 1037-1044, 2002. ¡P Y. C. Shu and K. Bhattacharya. Domain Patterns and Macroscopic Behavior of Ferroelectric Materials. Philosophical Magazine B, Vol. 81, pp. 2021-2054, 2001. ¡P Y. C. Shu*. Heterogeneous Thin Films of Martensitic Materials. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Vol. 153, pp. 39-90, 2000. ¡P Y. C. Shu and K. Bhattacharya. The Influence of Texture on the Shape-Memory Effect in Polycrystals. Acta Materialia, Vol. 46, pp. 5457-5473,  1998. ¡P C. S. Yeh, Y. C. Shu, and K. C. Wu. Conservation Laws in Anisotropic Elasticity I. Basic Framework. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London Ser A, Vol. 443, pp. 139-151, 1993. ¡P C. S. Yeh, Y. C. Shu, and K. C. Wu. Conservation Laws in Anisotropic Elasticity II. Extension and Application to Thermoelasticity. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London Ser A, Vol. 443, pp. 153-161, 1993. B.  Conference Papers ¡P Y. C. Shu, I. C. Lien W. J. Wu and S. M. Shiu, ¡§Comparisons between Parallel- and Series-SSHI Interfaces Adopted by Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Systems,¡¨ SPIE's 16^th  International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, San Diego, California, 2009 (supported by NTU). ¡P J. H. Yen and Y. C. Shu, ¡§Phase-Field Simulation of Ferroelectric Domains - a Nonconventional Approach,¡¨ the 32^ndNational Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, 2008 (supported by NSC). ¡P Y. C. Shu and J. H. Yen, ¡§Novel Phase-Field Simulation of Microstructure in Martensitic Materials,¡¨ ASME-SMASIS (Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems), Ellicott City, MD, 2008 (Supported by NSC). ¡P Y. C. Shu and I. C. Lien, ¡§Improving Bandwidth of Piezoelectric Energy Harvester,¡¨ MRS (Materials Research Society) Spring Meeting, San Francisco, 2008 (Supported by Ministry of Economic Affairs, presentation only). ¡P H. Yen, Y. C. Shu*, J. Shieh and J. H. Yeh. ¡§Construction of Minimum Energy Ferroelectric Domains with Applications to Large Strain Actuation,¡¨ 2007 MRS-T Annual Meeting, Hsinchu, Taiwan (Supported by NSC). (received student's award, ºaÀò¤¤°ê§÷®Æ¬ì¾Ç¾Ç·|¾Ç¥Í½×¤å¼ú¨Î§@¼ú) ¡P Y. C. Shu and J. H. Yen, ¡§Simulation of Microstructure in Martensitic Thin Films,¡¨ ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2007 (Supported by NSC). ¡P Y. C. Shu and I. C. Lien, ¡§A Comparison between the Standard and SSHI Interfaces used in Piezoelectric Power Harvesting,¡¨ SPIE¡¦s 14^th International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, San Diego, California, 2007 (Supported by Ministry of Economic Affairs ). ¡P Y. C. Shu and I. C. Lien, ¡§Steady State Response of a Piezoelectric Power Harvesting System,¡¨ ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 2006 (Supported by NSC). ¡P J. Shieh, J.H. Yeh, J.H. Yenand Y.C. Shu. ¡§Hysteresis Behaviors of Barium Titanate Single Crystals under Stress and Electric Field,¡¨ 17^th International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies, ICAST 2006, Taipei, Taiwan, 2006 (Supported by NSC). ¡P Y. C. Shu and I. C. Lien, ¡§Efficiency of a Piezoelectric Power Harvesting System,¡¨ The 17^th International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies, Taipei, Taiwan, 2006 (Supported by NSC). ¡P Y. C. Shu and J. H. Yen, ¡§Micromagnetic Modeling of Released/Non-released  Magnetostrictive Films,¡¨ MRS (Materials Research Society) Fall Meeting, Boston, 2005 (Supported by NSC). ¡P Y. C. Shu, ¡§Recoverable Deflection of Pressurized Shape-Memory Films and Foils,¡¨ ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Anaheim, 2004 (Supported by Ministry of Economic Affairs). ¡P Y. C. Shu and J. H. Yen, ¡§Micromagnetic Modeling of the Behavior of Magnetostrictive Films under Stress,¡¨ MRS (Materials Research Society) Fall Meeting, Boston, 2003 (Supported by NSC). ¡P Y. C. Shu, ¡§Pressurized Shape-Memory Micropumps,¡¨ SPIE¡¦s 9^th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Material: Active Materials: Behavior and Mechanics,¡¨ San Diego, California, 2002 (Supported by NSC). ¡P Y. C. Shu, ¡§Pressurized Heterogeneous Thin Films of Martensitic Materials.¡¨ IUTAM (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) Symposium on ¡§Mechanics of Martensitic Phase Transformations in Solids,¡¨ Hong Kong, 2001 (Invited, supported by NSC). ¡P Y. C. Shu. ¡§Heterogeneous Thin Films of Martensitic Materials with Application to Large Strain Actuators,¡¨ International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems, San Diego, California, 2000.  C.  Book Chapters and Others ¡P Y. C. Shu. Theory of SMA Thin Films for Microactuators and Micropumps (Chapter 11). In S. Miyazaki, Y. Q. Fu and W. M. Huang, editors, Thin Film Shape Memory Alloys: Fundamental and Device Applications, pages 275-299, Cambridge University Press, 2009. ¡P Y. C. Shu. Performance Evaluation of Vibration-Based Piezoelectric Energy Scavengers (Chapter 3). In S. Priya and D. J. Inman, editors, Energy Harvesting Technologies, pages 79-105, Springer, 2009. ¡P I. C. Lien and Y. C. Shu. Introduction to Vibration-Based Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting. Industrial Materials Magazine, No. 263, pp. 130-139, November, 2008. (³s¯q¼y¡BµÎ¶M©¾¡A¡§À£¹q®¶°Ê¯à¶qÂ^¨ú¨t²Î¤¶²Ð¡¨¡A¤u·~§÷®ÆÂø»x¡A263´Á¡A130-139¶¡A 2008¦~11¤ë¡C) ¡P Y. C. Shu. Pressurized Heterogeneous Thin Films of Martensitic Materials. In Q. P. Sun, editor, Mechanics of Martensitic Phase Transformation in Solids, pages 171-178. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Netherlands,  2002. ¡P K. Bhattacharya, R.V. Kohn, and Y. C. Shu. The Taylor Estimate of Recoverable Strains in Shape-Memory Polycrystals. In Y. A. Bahei-El-Din and G. J. Dvorak, editors, Transformation Problems in Composite and Active Materials, pages 123-134. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Netherlands, 1998. D.  Patent ¡P  E. N. Burcsu, K. Bhattacharya, G. Ravichandran and Y. C. Shu, ¡§Electrostrictive Actuator Using Ferroelectric Single Crystal,¡¨ United States Patent, No: US 6,437,486 B1, Date of Patent: Aug. 20, 2002.

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