Dr Yu (Roger) Dong

BE (WUST, China), ME(Hons), PhD(Auckland), MASME, MSPE, MIoN

Position: Lecturer
Room: 204-108 || Telephone: + 61 8 9266 9055 || Fax: + 61 8 9266 2681
Email: Y.Dong@curtin.edu.au

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Teaching Experience

Courses at Curtin University of Technology

• Strength of Materials 232
• Engineering Mechanics 100
• Engineering Foundation Design and Processes (EFDP 100)

Tutorials and lab demonstrations at University of Auckland

• MECHENG 742 Advanced Materials Manufacturing
• MECHENG 242 Mechanics of Materials (MoM)
• ENGGEN 121 Engineering Mechanics
• ENGGEN 104 Professional Development I (PD1)

Research Interests

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• Polymer Nanocomposites
• Multiscale Micromechanical Modelling
• Nanomaterial Processing & Characterisation
• Polymer Process Modelling
• Statistical Design of Experiments (DoE)

Professional Experience

• 2008-Present Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
• 2003-2004 Research Associate, Centre for Advanced Composites Materials (CACM), The University of Auckland, New Zealand
• 2002-2007 Teaching Assistant and Lab Demonstrator, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
• 2001-2008 Postgraduate Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Affiliations and Memberships

• Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), USA
• Member, Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), USA
• Member, Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN), UK
• Member, NanoChina (Affiliated to the Institute of Nanotechnology, UK)
• Member, iMechanica (web of mechanics and mechanicians)

Industry Experience

• Pultrusion Process Technology Internship in Pultron Composites Ltd, Gisborne, New Zealand.
• Hoist Lifting Process Practice, the Third Steel Manufacturing Factory, Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corporation (WISCO), Wuhan, P.R. China.
• Manufacturing technique process practice, Hubei Diesel factory, Wuhan 471 factory and Wuhan 461 factory, Wuhan, P.R.China.

Scholarships and Research Fellowships

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• Curtin International Postgraduate Research Scholarships (CIPRS) [Website]
• International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) [Website]
• Endeavour Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Awards [Website] ( Brochure )
• China Scholarship Council (CSC) –Curtin Joint PhD scholarship [Website] ( Brochure )
• The Prime Minister's Australia Asia Endeavour Awards [Website]
• Curtin Research Fellowship (CRF) [Website]

Honours and Awards

• Reviewer for International Journal of Engineering (IJE), ISSN: 1985-2312, Computer Science (CSC) Journals [Website]
• Reviewer for Journal of Nanomaterials, ISSN: 1687-4110, Hindawi Publishing Co. [Website]
• Selected Candidate in the Special 25th Silver Anniversary Edition of "MARQUIS Who's Who in the World". [Website]
• Selected Stage Two Nominee for 2007 MacDiarmid Young Scientists of the Year Awards, Foundation for Research Science and Technology (FRST), New Zealand.
• Best Paper Silver Award Presented at the 5th Asian-Australasian Conference on Composite Materials (ACCM-5), Hong Kong, P.R.China, 2006. [Photo]
• Best Poster Award of Mechanical Engineering Department, Beca Engineering Postgraduate Poster Competition, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Auckland. [Poster in PDF]
• Bright Future Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship (Tertiary Education Commission, New Zealand), 2005.
• University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarship, 2004.
• University of Auckland International Doctoral Fee Bursary, 2003.
• Consecutive Four-year Scholarships in the School of Mechanical Engineering &Automation, Wuhan University of Science & Technology, P.R. China, 1996-2000.

Training and Workshops

• Foundation of Learning and Teaching Program, Curtin University of Technology, Feb. 2009.
• Laboratory Demonstrator Workshop, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Curtin University of Technology, Feb. 2009.
• The University of Auckland Spark* Entrepreneurship Challenge Vision to Business Programs, 2004.
• ANSYS® DesignSpace and WorkBench Training Workshop, Apr. 2004.
• Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire® Hand-on Introduction to 3-D Modelling Workshop, Apr. 2004.
• IEEE Leadership Training Workshop, Mar.2004.
• Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire® Hand-on Advanced Introduction Workshops, Dec. 2003.
• Finite Element Analysis of ABAQUS® in Real Commercial Simulation Seminar & Video Conference, Sept. 2003.
• Pacific ESI (Engineering Systems International) PAM-STAMP® Workshop, Oct. 2002.

Selected Recent Publications

Referred Journals

• Y. Dong and D. Bhattacharyya, "Morphological-image Analysis Based Numerical Modelling of Organoclay Filled Nanocomposites", Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, in press.
• Y. Dong, D. Bhattacharyya, P. J. Hunter, "Experimental Characterisation and Object-Oriented Finite Element Modelling of Polypropylene/Organoclay Nanocomposites", "Nanocomposites" special issue, Composites Science and Technology, 68 (2008), pp. 2864-2875. [Full paper in PDF]
• Y. Dong, D. Bhattacharyya, "Effects of Clay Type, Clay/ Compatibiliser Content and Matrix Viscosity on the Enhancement of Mechanical Properties of Polypropylene/Organoclay Nanocomposites", Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 39 (2008), pp. 1177-1191. [Full paper in PDF]
• D. Bhattacharyya, Y. Dong and P. J. Hunter, “Formulation, Processing and Numerical Modelling of Polypropylene/clay Nanocomposites”, World Journal of Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 5-6 (2007), 83-84. [Full paper in PDF]
• Y. Dong, D.Bhattacharyya and P.J.Hunter, “Characterisation and Object-Oriented Finite Element Modelling of Polypropylene/Organoclay Nanocomposites”, Key Engineering Materials (special issue-“Advances in Composite Materials and Structures”), Vols. 334-335(2007), pp. 841-844. [Full paper in PDF]
• Y. Dong, R. J. T. Lin and D. Bhattacharyya, "Finite Element Simulation on Thermoforming Acrylic Sheets Using Dynamic Explicit Method", Polymers & Polymer Composites, Vol. 14, No.3 (2006), pp.307-328. [Full paper in PDF]
• Y. Dong, R. J. T. Lin and D. Bhattacharyya, "Determination of Critical Material Parameters for Numerical Simulation of Acrylic Sheet Forming", Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 40, No. 2 (2005) pp.399-410. [Full paper in PDF]

Referred Conference Proceedings

• D. S. Chaudhary and Y. Dong “A statistical analysis of interaction between crystallinity and elongation in plasticized biopolymer”, The Seventeenth International Conference on COMPOSITES/NANO ENGINEERING (ICCE -17), Hawaii, USA, July 26-August 1, 2009.
• Y. Dong and D. Bhattacharyya, “Effects of matrix plasticisation on the characterisation of polypropylene/clay nanocomposites”, The Seventeenth International Conference on COMPOSITES/NANO ENGINEERING (ICCE -17), Hawaii, USA, July 26-August 1, 2009.
• Y. Dong and D. Bhattacharyya, “A comprehensive study of polypropylene/organoclay nanocomposites: preparation, material characterisation and numerical simulation”, [Invited Paper#] for The First International Conference on Nanostructured Materials and Nanocomposites ICNM-2009), Kottayam, Kerala, India, April 6-8, 2009.
• D. Bhattacharyya and Y. Dong, “Optimisation of manufacturing parameters and morphology based numerical analysis of nanocomposites”, Invited Paper (Paper No. AI-007) for the Seventeenth International Symposium on Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials (PFAM XVII), India Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, December 15-17, 2008. Conference Proceedings of “Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials-XVII”, edited by N. Bhatnagar, T. S. Srivatsan, pp. 559-579, I. K. International, New Delhi, India (2009).
• Y. Dong and D. Bhattacharyya, “Morphological-image Analysis Based Numerical Modelling of Organoclay Filled Nanocomposites”, International Conference on Multiscale Modelling and Simulation (ICMMS’08), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2-4 Jan. 2008.
• Y. Dong, D. Bhattacharyya and P. J. Hunter, “A Novel Numerical Approach Based on Morphological Image Analysis to Predict Mechanical Properties of Polypropylene/Clay Nanocomposites”, Paper No. NM-7, the Sixth Canadian-International Composites Conference (CANCOM 2007), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 14-17 Aug. 2007.
• D. Bhattacharyya, Y. Dong and P. J. Hunter, “ Formulation, Processing and Numerical Modelling of Polypropylene/clay Nanocomposites”, #Keynote Paper, The Fifteenth International Conference on COMPOSITES/NANO ENGINEERING (ICCE-15) Haikou, Hainan Island, China, 15-21 Jul. 2007.
• Y. Dong, D. Bhattacharyya, P. J. Hunter, “Optimisation of Property Enhancement of Polypropylene/Organoclay Nanocomposites”, Paper No. GE219830, 16th International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM-16), Kyoto, Japan , 8 -13 Jul., 2007.
• Y. Dong, D. Bhattacharyya, P. Hunter, “Numerical Modelling of Mechanical Behaviour of Polypropylene/Organoclay Nanocomposites Using Representative Volume Element (RVE)”, Paper No. OA-9-OR32, International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies 2007 (ICMAT 2007), Singapore, 1-6 Jul., 2007.
• Y. Dong, D.Bhattacharyya and P.J.Hunter, “Characterisation and Object-Oriented Finite Element Modelling of Polypropylene/Organoclay Nanocomposites”, Paper No. 442-N, 5th Asian-Australasian Conference on Composite Materials (ACCM-5), Hong Kong, P.R.China, 27-30 Nov. 2006.