Senior Research Scientist at AnalySwift, Dr. Liang Zhang received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2011. He brings to AnalySwift strong expertise in nonlinear homogenization of composites, plasticity, damage, fracture, and fatigue. His work has been funded by NASA, US Air Force, and US Army. Dr. Zhang has been working in the field of composite structures for over 10 years. Previously, he was a Postdoc at Purdue University, where he worked on continuum damage mechanics-based modeling of brittle damage, brittle fracture, and high-cycle fatigue in engineering materials, thermodynamically consistent cohesive zone modeling of interlaminar and fatigue delamination, and variational asymptotic homogenization of finitely deformed heterogeneous elastomers. Prior to this Dr. Zhang was a PostDoc at Utah State University, where he researched variational asymptotic homogenization of elasto-viscoplastic (an explicit method) and elastoplastic composites (an implicit method).