Jianmin Qu

Dr. Qu’s research interest crosses several areas including micromechanics of composites, interfacial fracture and adhesion, fatigue and creep damage in metallic and polymer materials, fuel cells and batteries, thermomechanical reliability of microelectronic packaging, and ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation of advanced engineering materials.
His discovery of a reciprocity relation between the reflection and transmission coefficients at anisotropic bimaterial interfaces has led to the development of several ultrasonic techniques for nondestructive evaluation of composite laminates. He is a recognized expert in interfacial fracture mechanics. His solution to the Eshelby inclusion problem with imperfect interfaces provided a building block for developing micromechanics solutions of the effective properties of composites with imperfect interfaces.

Dr. Jianmin Qu is a professor of mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. Dr. Qu’s research focuses on several areas of theoretical and applied mechanics including micromechanics of composites, interfacial fracture and adhesion, fatigue and creep damage in solder alloys, thermomechanical reliability of microelectronic packaging, defects and transport in solids with applications to solid oxide fuel cells and batteries, and ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation of advanced engineering materials. He has authored/co-authored two books, 14 book chapters and over 220 referred journal papers in these areas. His works have been cited more than 15,000 times with an h-index of 64.

Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology (2021-present)
Karol Family Professor, Tufts University (2015-2021)
Walter P. Murphy Professor, Northwestern University (2009-2015)
Professor, Georgia Tech (2000-2009)
Associate Professor, Georgia Tech (1994-2000)
Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech (1989‑1994)

Dr. Qu is a Fellow of ASME and a Fellow of IEEE. He has served as Chair of the ASME Electronic and Photonic Packaging Division, Treasure and Board of Directors of the Society of Engineering Science and Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member for a number of technical journals.

Dr. Qu's research has been supported by many US government agencies including NSF, DoE, ONR, AFRL, AFOSR, DARPA, NASA, etc., and by private companies such as Intel, IBM, AMD, Northrop Grumman, Pratt Whitney, Boeing, Ford Motor Co., Rockwell Collins, etc. He has led multi-million dollar projects with multiple partners and co-PIs. Over the past 10 years, he has conducted more than $13M sponsored research.

Method for Measuring Reactor Bed Level from Active Acoustic Measurement and Analysis, J. Qu, L.J. Jacobs, L. Song, J. Bitar, M.M. Disko, US Patent 8,850,882, 2014.
A second nearest-neighbor embedded atom method interatomic potential for Li–Si alloys. Z Cui, F Gao, Z Cui, J Qu, Journal of Power Sources, 2012, Vol. 207, pp. 150-159.

Ju, T., Achenbach, J.D., Jacobs, L.J., and Qu, J., 2019, “Nondestructive Evaluation of Thermal Aging of Adhesive Joints by Using a Nonlinear Wave Mixing Technique,” NDT & E International, Vol. 103, pp. 62-67.

Ju, T., Achenbach, J.D., Jacobs, L.J., and Qu, J., 2019, “One-way Mixing of Collinear Waves in an Adhesive Layer,” J. Acoust. Soc. Ame, Vol. 145, pp. 110-120.

Gao, X. and Qu, J., 2019, “Contribution of Dislocation Pileups to Acoustic Nonlinearity Parameter,” J. Appl. Physics, Vol. 125, pp. 215104.

Gao, X. and Qu, J., 2018, “Acoustic Nonlinearity Parameter Induced by Extended Dislocations,” J. Appl. Physics, Vol. 124, pp. 125102.

Gao, X. and Qu, J., 2018, “Acoustic Nonlinearity Parameter due to Microstructural Defects,” Acta Mechanica Solids, pp. 1-10.

Shui, G., Wang, Y.S. and Qu, J., 2015, “Nonlinear Ultrasonic Evaluation of the Fatigue Damage of Adhesive Joints,” NDT & E International, Vol. 70, pp. 9–15.

Chen, Z., Tang, G., Zhao,Y., Jacobs, L.J., and Qu, J., 2014, “Mixing of Collinear Pulses in Elastic Solids with Quadratic Nonlinearity,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vo. 136, pp. 2389 - 2014.

Tang, G. Liu, M, Jacobs, L.J., and Qu, J., 2014, “Detecting Localized Plastic Strain by a Scanning Collinear Wave Mixing Method,” J. Nondestructive Evaluation, Vol. 33, pp 196-204 .

Shui, G., Wang, Y.S. and Qu, J., 2015, “Nonlinear Ultrasonic Evaluation of the Fatigue Damage of Adhesive Joints,” NDT & E International, Vol. 70, pp. 9–15.

Chen, Z. and Qu, J., 2013, “Dislocation-Induced Acoustic Nonlinearity Parameter in Crystalline Solids,” J. Appl. Physics., Vol. 114, pp. 164906.