Civil and Environmental Engineering

Jianmin Qu

Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Education

Ph.D. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

M.S. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

B.S. Mathematics Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Research Interests

Mechanics of materials; micromechanics; fracture mechanics; reliability of microelectronics packaging; wave propagation and nondestructive evaluation

Significant Recognition

• Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Components, Packaging, & Manufacturing Technology Society (CPMT), 2008
• Sigma Xi Best Paper Award, 2007
• ASME Electronic and Photonic Packaging Division Outstanding Contribution Award (Engineering Mechanics), 2006
• Changjiang Professorship, Beijing University, 2005-2008
• Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001
• Water Arbitration Prize, Institute of Mechanical Engineers, UK, 2001
• Ralph R. Teetor Education Award, SAE, 1996
• Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award, 1994
• Dow Outstanding Young Faculty Award, ASEE, 1993
• Amoco Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Amoco Foundation, 1992
• Lilly Teaching Fellow, Lilly Endowment, 1992

Significant Professional Service

• Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging, 2003–present
• Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, 2010–present
• Associate Editor, Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, 2011-present

In the Classroom

Professor Qu has taught courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, including statics, dynamics, mechanics of materials, machine design, fracture, elasticity, continuum mechanics, wave propagation in solids, variational methods in solid mechanics, micromechanics, and reliability of microelectronic packaging.

Selected Publications

1. Qu, J. and M. Cherkaoui, 2006, Fundamentals of Micromechanics of Solids, John Wiley & Sons Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
2. Gao, F., Qu, J., and Yao, M., 2010, “Electronic Structure and Contact Resistance at an Open-end CNT and Copper Interface, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 96, pp. 102108.
3. Dingreville, R. and Qu, 2008, “Interfacial Excess Energy, Excess Stress and Excess Strain in Elastic Solids - Planar Interfaces,” J. Mech. Phys. Solids, Vol. 56. pp. 19441954.
4. Swaminathan, N. and Qu, J., 2007, "An Electrochemomechanical Theory for Ionic Solids I - Theory," Phil,. Mag., Vol. 87, pp. 1705 - 1721.
5. Pei, M. and Qu, J., 2007, “Effect of Lanthanum Doping on the Microstructure of Tin-Silver Solder Alloys, J. Electronic Materials, Vo. 37, pp. 331-338.
6. Cui, Z., Sun, Y., Li, J., Qu, J., 2007, “On a Combination Method for the Calculation of Elastic Constants,” Physical Review B, Vol. 75, 214101-1-6.
7. Liu, G. and Qu, J., 1998, "Guided Circumferential Waves in a Circular Annulus," J. Appl. Mech., Vol. 65, p.424-430.
8. Liu, G. and Qu, J., 1998, "Transient Wave Propagation in a Circular Annulus Subjected to Impulse Excitation on Its Outer Surface," J. Acost. Soc. Am., Vol. 103, p.1210-1220.
9. Qu, J., 1993, "Eshelby Tensor for an Elastic Inclusion with Slightly Weakened Interface," J. Appl. Mech., 60, p.1048 - 1050.
10. Qu, J., and Bassani, J.L., 1989, "Cracks on Bimaterial and Bicrystal Interfaces," J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 37, p.417-434.