Dr Qingming Li

Qingming Li graduated from Peking University with BSc (1984) and MSc (1987) degrees in Mechanics and from the University of Liverpool with a PhD (1997) in Mechanical Engineering. He has been a Lecturer and Assistant Professor at Taiyuan University of Technology and Nanyang Technological University. He joined UMIST (now The University of Manchester) in 2002.

As the leader of the Impact and Explosion Research Group, Dr Li's expertise is in penetration mechanics, dynamic behaviour of engineering materials at high strain rates and structural response to impact and blast loads. He has served on international conference committees and chairmanship, undertaken guest editorships, held guest professorships in several universities and provided consultancies to industries and government bodies. He is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in the field of applied mechanics.

He is currently an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Impact Engineering.

Research Group:

• Structures, Dynamics and Extreme Loading

Expert Group:

• Impact and Explosion, Group Leader

• Impact Engineering and Structural Crashworthiness
• Design and Analyses of Containment Vessel
• High Strain Rate Behaviour of Engineering Materials (concrete, foams, metals, polymers)
• Penetration Mechanics (low-, intermidiate-, high- and hyper-velocity impact)
• Impact Damage of Sandwich Structures
• Mechanics of Cellular and Composite Materials
• Protective Technology
• Uncertainty and Parametric Sensitivity Analyses
• Atomistic and Multi-Scale Modeling (nano dynamics)

Research topics available

• Ballistic resistance and blast attenuation of foamed concrete and structures (PhD)
• Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar Technique (PhD)
• Containment vessel analysis and design (PhD)
• Design of space debri shield (PhD)
• Shock propagations in cellular materials (PhD)

• Plasticity
• Engineering Mechanics
• Impact and Explosion Engineering
• Research Method

Teaching Unit(s):

• MACE11010 Engineering Mechanics
• MACE60005 Research Methods
• MACE61054 Impact & Explosion Engineering