Professor Yi-Min (Mike) Xie
Professor of Civil Engineering
Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering Discipline
School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering
RMIT University
GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001
AUSTRALIA
CONTACT
mike.xie@rmit.edu.au
QUALIFICATIONS
BEng (Engineering Mechanics), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 1984.
PhD (Civil Engineering), University of Wales, Swansea, United Kingdom, 1991.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Structural optimization.
Computational mechanics.
Structural dynamics.
Concrete footpath.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Jul. 2005 - present, Professor and Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering Discipline, School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, Australia.
Jul. 2002 - Jun. 2005, Professor and Discipline Director - Civil Engineering, School of Civil and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, Australia.
Jan. 2002 - Jun. 2002, Professor and Acting Head of School, School of the Built Environment, Victoria University, Australia.
Jan. 1998 - Dec. 2001, Associate Professor, School of the Built Environment, Victoria University, Australia.
Jul. 1995 - Dec. 1997, Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Victoria University, Australia.
May 1993 - Jun. 1995, Lecturer, Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Victoria University, Australia
Feb. 1992 - May 1993, Research Fellow of Department of Aeronautical Engineering and Manager of Finite Element Analysis Research Centre, University of Sydney, Australia.
Oct. 1990 - Oct. 1991. Senior Research Assistant to Professor O.C. Zienkiewicz, F.R.S., Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales, Swansea, U.K.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Fellow, Institution of Engineers Australia.
Member, International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures.
Member, International Society for Structural and Multi-disciplinary Optimization.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member of the Judging Panel for the Victorian Engineering Excellence Award (2003 and 2005).
Chairman of Organising Committee for the Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics, 2005.
Chairman of Organising Committee for the 4th International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, 26-28 September 2007, Melbourne http://www.materialsaustralia.com.au/ISEC-4.
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
Awarded The Most Inspiring Lecturer in Civil Engineering prize in 1999, Victoria University.
Awarded Vice-Chancellor’s Medal for Excellence in Research in 2000, Victoria University (the highest research award of the University).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
O.C. Zienkiewicz, Y.M. Xie, B.A. Schrefler, A. Ledesma and N. Bicanic, ‘Static and dynamic behaviour of soils: a rational approach to quantitative solutions. II. Semi-saturated problems’, Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, A429, pp 311-321, 1990.
O.C. Zienkiewicz and Y.M. Xie, ‘A simple error estimator and adaptive time-stepping procedure for dynamic analysis’, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 20, pp 871-887, 1991.
Y.M. Xie and G.P. Steven, ‘A simple evolutionary procedure for structural optimization’, Computers & Structures, 49(5), pp 885-896, 1993.
Y.M. Xie, ‘An unusual stability property of a direct integration algorithm’, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 192, pp 1015-1017, 1996.
Y.M. Xie and G.P. Steven, Evolutionary Structural Optimization, Springer-Verlag, London, 1997.
X.Y. Yang, Y.M. Xie, G.P. Steven and O.M. Querin, ‘Bi-directional evolutionary method for stiffness optimization’, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal, 37(11), pp 1483-1488, 1999.
Q.Q. Liang, Y.M Xie and G.P. Steven, ‘Optimal topology design of bracing systems for multi-story steel building frameworks’, Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 126(7), pp 823-829, 2000.
Y.M. Xie, X.Y. Yang, Q.Q. Liang, G.P. Steven and O.M. Querin, ‘Evolutionary structural optimisation’, in The State-of-the-art Report, Technical Committee for Optimal Structural Design, American Society of Civil Engineers, pp 125-146, 2000.
Y.M. Xie, P. Felicetti and J.W. Tang and M.C. Burry, ‘Form finding of complex structures using evolutionary structural optimisation’, Design Studies, 26(1), pp 55-72, 2005.
Y.M. Xie, X. Huang, J.W. Tang and P. Felicetti, ‘Recent advances in evolutionary structural optimization’, Keynote Lecture of Frontiers of Computational Sciences Symposium, Nagoya, Japan, 11-13 October, 2005, pp 13-20. (Downloadable, PDF format, 261kb).
FULL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (1990-2008)
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
