Yin-ping (Daniel) Chang, Ph.D.
- Joined Oakland University in 2002
- 1998-2002 Instructor, ME Department, The Pennsylvania State University
- 1992-95 – Powertrain/chassis engineer, EV/HEV and NVH engineer, project manager, R&D Department, Mitsubishi Motor Corporation (MMC)
- Member of ASME, SAE and ASEE
RESEARCH
- FEA tire modeling and dynamics simulations.
- Vehicle modeling and dynamics simulations.
- Vehicle passenger safety systems modeling and simulations.
- Contact-impact problems experiments and simulations.
- Machine/mechanism synthesis and analysis.
- High-speed tire transient response simulation. Tire high-speed standing waves phenomenon simulation by PAM-SHOCK, FEA tire modeling by Pro-Engineering/CATIA/HyperMesh, establishing virtual tire testing environment.
- FEA tire modeling and static response analysis. FEA tire modeling by ANSYS, contact patch pressure distribution detection, and static stress/strain analysis.
- Vehicle rollover simulation. A FEA truck model rollover crashworthiness simulation by PAM-CRASH, passenger safety investigation with dummy models and air bag/seat belt systems.
- Rigid Body vehicle dynamics simulation. Vehicle steady-state steering responses simulations under different operation conditions include lane change maneuver, double lane change, accelerating, braking, rollover, etc., by Car-Sim/Truck-Sim/ADAMS/DADS.
- Rigid body multi-impacts problems experiments and simulations. Analytical, numerical, and experimental parts sorting and contact-impact problems analyses and simulations by Matlab and Fortran codes.
- Classical mechanism design and kinematics synthesis and analysis. Classical and numerical mechanism kinematic synthesis/analysis, and the applications in graph theory and robotics.
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