Vincent TAN

Vincent Tan is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore. After obtaining his BEng and MEng in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore, he pursued his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, USA.

Currently, his research interests are in computational homogenization and multiscale modelling, computational modelling, bioinspired composites, failure of composite materials, impact mechanics and ballistics. His research has been funded by both industrial and research agency grants, including US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Defence Science Organization, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Defence, Vestas, and Airbus.

He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Composites Part B, Mechanics of Materials, and International Journal of Applied Mechanics. He is a Vice President and Fellow of the Association for Computational Mechanics (Singapore), and is a General Council Member of both the International Association of Computational Mechanics and Asian Pacific Association for Computational Mechanics.

He co-chaired the 23rd International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials in Singapore (2013) and has served on the scientific advisory committees of several international conferences.

A winner of multiple teaching awards at both the Faculty and University levels, he teaches modules on mechanics, mathematics, and numerical methods.

Qualification

PhD, Northwestern University (1998)
BEng and MEng, National University of Singapore (1994)

Research Interests

Computational homogenization and multiscale modelling
Bioinspired composites
Damage and failure of composite materials
Impact mechanics and ballistics

Selected Publications

1. J Zhi, K Raju, TE Tay, VBC Tan, Transient multi-scale analysis with micro-inertia effects using Direct FE2 method, Computational Mechanics, 67(6), p1645-1660, 2021
2. K Raju, TE Tay, VBC Tan, A review of the FE 2 method for composites, Multiscale and Multidisciplinary Modeling, Experiments and Design, p1-24, 2021
3. E Chew, JL Liu, TE Tay, LQN Tran, VBC Tan, Improving the mechanical properties of natural fibre reinforced laminates composites through Biomimicry, Composite Structures, 258, 113208, 2021
4. VBC Tan, K Raju, HP Lee, Direct FE2 for concurrent multilevel modelling of heterogeneous structures, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 360, 112694, 2020
5. JL Liu, HP Lee, TE Tay, VBC Tan, Healable bio-inspired helicoidal laminates, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 137, 106024, 2020
6. JL Liu, HP Lee, VBC Tan, Effects of inter-ply angles on the failure mechanisms in bioinspired helicoidal laminates, Composites Science and Technology, 165, p282-289, 2018
7. AK Singh, BY Chen, VBC Tan, TE Tay, HP Lee, Finite element modeling of nonlinear acoustics/ultrasonics for the detection of closed delaminations in composites, Ultrasonics, 74, p89-98, 2017
8. JS Shang, NHH Ngern, VBC Tan, Crustacean-inspired helicoidal laminates, Composites Science and Technology, 128, p222-232, 2016
9. ZC Su, VBC Tan, TE Tay, 3D multiscale simulation of a silicon slider on a PE substrate, Computational materials science, 94, p240-244, 2014
10. S Song, Y Chen, Y, ZC Su, C Quan, VBC Tan, Multiscale modeling of damage progression in nylon 6/clay nanocomposites, Composites science and technology, 100, p189-197, 2014
11. XS Sun, VBC Tan, Y Chen, LB Tan, RK Jaiman, TE Tay, Stress analysis of multi-layered hollow anisotropic composite cylindrical structures using a homogenization method, Acta Mechanica, 225(6), p1649-1672, 2014
12. Y Chen, JYH Chia, ZC Su, TE Tay, VBC Tan, Molecular modeling of epoxide-amine systems: Topological cure conversion limit and its influence on material properties, Polymer, 55(23), p6124-6131, 2014
13. L Dai, M Minn, N Satyanarayana, DK Sinha, VBC Tan, Identifying the mechanisms of polymer friction through molecular dynamics simulation, Langmuir, 27(24), p14861-14867, 2011
14. L Dai, CH Sow, CT Lim, WCD Cheong, VBC Tan, Numerical investigations into the tensile behavior of TiO2 nanowires: structural deformation, mechanical properties, and size effects, Nano letters, 9(2), p576-582, 2009
15. VBC Tan, XS Zeng, M Deng, KM Lim, TE Tay, Multiscale modeling of polymers–the pseudo amorphous cell, Computer methods in applied mechanics and engineering, 197, p536-554, 2008