Professor Wenbin Yu was awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar fellowship to collaborate with Dr. Igor Berinskii at Tel Aviv University. He will apply the mechanics of structure genome to develop a powerful computational tool for design and analysis of bioinspired metamaterials with fibrous microstructures.

Yu is the Milton Clauser Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. He also serves as the director for the Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB (cdmHUB.org) and the chief technology officer of AnalySwift LLC. His areas of expertise include micromechanics and structural mechanics, with a focus on anisotropic and heterogeneous materials and structures.

Professor Yu has authored one book and over 130 journal papers and ten computer codes, widely used by tens of thousands across the globe. He is a fellow of both the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the American Society for Composites (ASC), and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

1.  Yu, W.: “A Unified Theory for Constitutive Modeling of Composites,” Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, vol. 11, no. 4, 2016, pp. 379-411.