Academic Staff

BEng (BUAA); MSc (BUAA); PhD (PolyU).

Area of Specialization
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) for Aircraft Structures, Advanced Composites and Aircraft Structure Mechanics, Ultrasonic Wave Propagation, Non-destructive Evaluation, Smart Materials and Sensors, Solid Mechanics

Short Description
Dr Wang received his B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees in Aeronautical Engineering from Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing, China, in 2011 and 2014, respectively, and the PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), in 2019. Before joining Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering (AAE) at PolyU as a Research Assistant Professor, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Mechanical Engineering Department at PolyU.

His research interests and experience include (1) investigation of novel structural health monitoring (SHM) approaches for aircraft structures, (2) development of advanced composites and smart sensors (3) the application of ultrasonic wave-based methods for the non-destructive evaluation of engineering structures, and (4) development of laser ultrasound-based approaches for material characterization and their biological applications.

Selected Publications

1. Wang K., Li Y., Su Z., Guan R., Lu Y., Yuan S., Nonlinear aspects of “breathing” crack-disturbed plate waves: 3-D analytical modeling with experimental validation. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2019, 159: 140-150.
2. Wang K., Fan Z., and Su Z., Orienting Fatigue Cracks Using Contact Acoustic Nonlinearity in Scattered Plate Waves, Smart Materials and Structures, 2018,27, 09LT01.
3. Wang K., Liu M., Cao W., Yang W., Su Z., Cui F., Detection and sizing of disbond in multilayer bonded structure using modally selective guided wave. Structural Health Monitoring, 2019: 1475921719866274.
4. Wang K., Cao W., Su Z., et al., Advancing Elastic Wave Imaging Using Thermal Susceptibility of Acoustic Nonlinearity. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences175 (2020): 105509.
5. Wang K., Su Z., Cao W., Xu L., Yang X., Zhang X., Chen L., Diffuse ultrasonic wave-based structural health monitoring for railway turnouts, Ultrasonics, 2019, 106031.
6. Wang K., Liu M., Su Z., Yuan S., Fan Z., Analytical insight into “breathing” crack-induced acoustic nonlinearity with an application to quantitative evaluation of contact cracks. Ultrasonics, 2018, 88, 157-167.
7. Li Y., Wang K., and Su Z., Dispersed Sensing Networks in Nano-Engineered Polymer Composites: From Static Strain Measurement to Ultrasonic Wave Acquisition. Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2018, 18(5).