Yan-Hui Zhang

TWI Limited, Cambridge, UK

yanhui.zhang@twi.co.uk

Dr Yanhui Zhang has a metallurgy background. He obtained his PhD degree at Open University, UK, in 1992, with a thesis “Small fatigue cracks of high strength aluminium alloys”. He worked as a research fellow on Ni-based superalloys in Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Cambridge University before he joined TWI as a senior project leader in July 2001, then was promoted to principal project leader and now consultant in Integrity Management Group, TWI Limited, Cambridge, UK. As a consultant, he gives technical leadership in the areas of fatigue and structural integrity assessments, develops business and provides consultancy and other services to TWI membership companies. He is particularly interested in providing technical solutions to industrial problems and challenges. He is the Fellow of Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), Fellow of Welding Institute (FWeldI) and Chartered Engineer (CEng). He is panel member of several standard/consultancy organisations including BS 7910, BS 7608 and TAGSI (UK Technical Advisory Group on Structural Integrity of High Integrity Plant – Sub-Group NT-26). He supervises several PhD students in collaboration with Cambridge, Brunel, Coventry and Manchester Universities. His expertise covers materials characterisation, fatigue design, fatigue and creep life evaluation, fatigue and creep testing, engineering critical assessment (ECA) and failure investigation. He published more than 40 papers as the first author.