Contact Information

Tel: 010-62757948 
Emailjxwang@pku.edu.cn 
Homepage: http://www2.coe.pku.edu.cn/subpaget.asp?id=133

Education

1979-1983: Undergraduate at Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics. Awarded Bachelor of Engineering
1983-1986: Postgraduate at South China University of Technology. Awarded Master of Science
1991-1995: Postgraduate at The University of Sydney. Awarded PhD.
1996: Research Associate, Imperial College. · 1997: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Aalborg University
1998-： Peking University

Research Areas

Mechanics of Composite Materials 
Mechanics of Nanostructured Materials
Mechanical/Physical Properties of Heterogeneous Media

Selected Publications 
1. Karihaloo, B. L., Zhang, K. and Wang, J. 2013. Honeybee combs: How the circular cells transform into rounded hexagons.Journal of the Royal Society Interface 10, 20130299. (Reported at http://www.nature.com/news/how-honeycombs-can-build-themselves-1.13398; http://news.discovery.com/animals/insects/secret-to-honeycomb-revealed-130717.htm;http://www.livescience.com/38242-why-honeybee-honeycombs-are-perfect.html;http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/07/18/3805894.htm; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/17/honeycombs-build-themselves-physics-bees_n_3611825.html ) 
2. Sun, T., Wang, J. & Kang, W. 2013. Van der Waals interaction-tuned heat transfer in nanostructures. Nanoscale 5, 128–133. 
3. Zhang, K., Zhao, X. W., Duan, H. L., Karihaloo, B. L. & Wang, J. 2011. Pattern transformations in periodic cellular solids under external stimuli. Journal of Applied Physics 109, Art. 084907.
4. Wang, J., Huang, Z. P., Duan, H. L., Yu, S. W., Feng, X. Q., Wang, G. F., Zhang, W. X. & Wang, T. J. 2011. Surface stress effect in mechanics of nanostructured materials. Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica 24, 52—82. 
5. Zhang, K., Han, T., Duan, H. L. & Wang, J. 2010 A theoretical study of possible shape and phase changes of carbon nanotube crystals during contraction and expansion. Carbon 48, 2948—2952. 
6. Zhang, K., Duan, H. L., Karihaloo, B. L. & Wang, J. 2010 Hierarchical, multilayered cell walls reinforced by recycled silk cocoons enhance the structural integrity of honeybee combs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107 (21), 9502—9506. 
7. Zhang, K., Si, F .W., Duan, H. L. & Wang, J. 2010 Microstructures and mechanical properties of silks of silkworm and honeybee. Acta Biomaterialia 6, 2165—2171. 
8. Shao, L. H., Luo, R. Y., Bai, S. L. & Wang, J. 2009 Prediction of effective moduli of carbon nanotube-reinforced composites with waviness and debonding. Composite Structures 87, 274—281. 
9. Duan, H. L., Wang, J. & Karihaloo, B. L. 2009 Theory of elasticity at the nano-scale. Advances in Applied Mechanics 42, 1-68. 
10. Duan, H.L., Yi, X., Huang, Z.P. & Wang, J. 2007b A unified scheme for prediction of effective moduli of multiphase composites with interface effects: Part II – application and scaling laws. Mechanics of Materials 39, 94—103. 
11. Duan, H.L., Yi, X., Huang, Z.P. & Wang, J. 2007a A unified scheme for prediction of effective moduli of multiphase composites with interface effects: Part I – theoretical framework. Mechanics of Materials 39, 81—93.
12. Duan, H. L., Wang, J., Karihaloo, B. L. & Huang, Z. P. 2006 Nanoporous materials can be made stiffer than non-porous counterparts by surface modification. Acta Materialia 54, 2983—2990. 
13. Wang, J., Duan, H. L. & Yi, X. 2006 Bounds on effective conductivities of heterogeneous media with graded constituents.Physical Review B 73, Art. 104208. 
14. Duan, H.L., Karihaloo, B.L., Wang, J. & Yi, X. 2006 Effective conductivities of heterogeneous media containing multiple inclusions with various spatial distributions. Physical Review B 73, Art. 174203. 
15. Duan, H. L., Jiao, Y., Yi, X., Huang, Z. P. & Wang, J. 2006 Solutions of inhomogeneity problems with graded shells and application to core-shell nanoparticles and composites. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 54, 1401—1425. 
16. Wang, J., Duan, H. L., Huang, Z. P. & Karihaloo, B. L. 2006 A scaling law for properties of nano-structured materials.Proceedings of the Royal Society A 462， 1355—1363. 
17. Huang, Z.P. & Wang, J. 2006 Nonlinear mechanics of solids containing isolated voids. Applied Mechanics Reviews 59， 210—229. 
18. Chu, H. J. & Wang, J. 2005 Strain distribution in arbitrarily shaped quantum dots with nonuniform composition. Journal of Applied Physics 98, Art. 034315. 
19. Duan, H. L., Wang, J., Huang, Z. P. & Karihaloo, B. L. 2005 Eshelby formalism for nano-inhomogeneities. Proceedings of the Royal Society A 461, 3335--3353. 
20. Duan, H. L., Wang, J., Huang, Z. P. & Karihaloo, B. L. 2005 Size-dependent effective elastic constants of solids containing nano-inhomogeneities with interface stress. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 53, 1574--1596. 
21. Duan, H. L., Wang, J., Huang, Z. P. & Zhong, Y. 2005 Stress fields of a spheroidal inhomogeneity with an interphase in an infinite medium under remote loadings. Proceedings of the Royal Society A 461, 1055--1080. 
22. Zhong, Y., Wang, J., Wu, Y. M. & Huang, Z. P. 2004 Effective moduli of particle-filled composite with inhomogeneous interphase Part II: mapping method and evaluation. Composites Science and Technology 64, 1353--1362. 
23. Wu, Y. M., Huang, Z. P., Zhong, Y. & Wang, J. 2004 Effective moduli of particle-filled composite with inhomogeneous interphase Part I: bounds. Composites Science and Technology 64, 1345--1351. 
24. Wang, J., & Pyrz, R. 2004b Prediction of the overall moduli of layered silicate-reinforced nanocomposites Part II: analyses.Composites Science and Technology 64, 935--944. 
25. Wang, J., & Pyrz, R. 2004a Prediction of the overall moduli of layered silicate-reinforced nanocomposites Part I: basic theory and formulas. Composites Science and Technology 64, 925--934. 
26. Wang, J. 2002 Overall moduli and constitutive relations of bodies containing multiple bridged microcracks. International Journal of Solids & Structures 39, 2203--2214. 
27. Wang, J., Fang, J. & Karihaloo, B. L. 2000 Asymptotic bounds on overall moduli of cracked bodies. International Journal of Solids & Structures 37, 6221--6237. 
28. Wang, J., Fang, J. & Karihaloo, B. L. 2000 Asymptotics of multiple crack interactions and prediction of overall modulus. International Journal of Solids & Structures 37, 4261-4273. 
29. Davies, G.A.O., Hitchings, D. & Wang, J. 2000 Prediction of threshold impact energy for onset of delamination in quasi-isotropic carbon/epoxy composite laminates under low-velocity impact. Composites Science and Technology 60, 1--7. 
30. Wang, J., Andreasen, J. H. & Karihaloo, B. L. 2000 The solution of an inhomogeneity in a finite plane region and its application to composite materials. Composites Science and Technology 60, 75--82. 
31. Karihaloo, B. L., Wang, J. & Grzybowski, M. 1996 Doubly periodic arrays of bridged cracks and short-fibre reinforced cementitious materials. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 44, 1565--1586. 
32. Wang, J. & Karihaloo, B. L. 19994b Mode II and mode III stress singularities and intensities at a crack tip terminating on a transversely isotropic-orthotropic bimaterial interface. Proceedings of the Royal Society A 444, 447--460. 
33. Wang, J. & Karihaloo, B. L. 1994a Cracked composite laminates least prone to delamination. Proceedings of the Royal Society A 444, 17--35.