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D-Index
44
Citations
6919
World Ranking
1641
National Ranking
198

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to design, measurement, and security of networking systems

Overview

Yan Chen is affiliated with Tianjin University in China and has made contributions primarily in the field of Engineering with a focus on Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their research encompasses a variety of topics including:

  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Structural Analysis and Optimization
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics
  • Cellular and Composite Structures
  • Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete

Yan Chen's recent papers include:

  • Fractional Hausdorff grey model and its properties (2020), published in Chaos Solitons & Fractals
  • Kirigami-based metastructures with programmable multistability (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The behavior of a functionally graded origami structure subjected to quasi-static compression (2020), published in Materials & Design
  • Deployable Structures: Structural Design and Static/Dynamic Analysis (2021), published in Journal of Elasticity
  • Geometric design, deformation mode, and energy absorption of patterned thin-walled structures (2022), published in Mechanics of Materials

The venues where Yan Chen has frequently published include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Mechanism and Machine Theory
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
  • Materials & Design

Yan Chen often collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors are:

  • Jiayao Ma
  • Yuanqing Gu
  • Zhong You
  • Huijuan Feng
  • Guowu Wei

Yan Chen has been recognized as an IEEE Fellow in 2017 for contributions to design, measurement, and security of networking systems.

Best Publications

  • Origami of thick panels

    Yan Chen;Rui Peng;Zhong You

  • Axial crushing of thin-walled structures with origami patterns

    Jie Song;Yan Chen;Guoxing Lu

  • Computational Study of Halide Perovskite-Derived A2BX6 Inorganic Compounds: Chemical Trends in Electronic Structure and Structural Stability

    Yao Cai;Wei Xie;Hong Ding;Yan Chen

  • Threefold-symmetric Bricard linkages for deployable structures

    Yan Chen;Zhong You;Tibor Tarnai

  • An origami-inspired structure with graded stiffness

    Jiayao Ma;Jichao Song;Yan Chen

  • Lycopene overproduction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae through combining pathway engineering with host engineering

    Yan Chen;Wenhai Xiao;Ying Wang;Hong Liu

  • Symmetric waterbomb origami.

    Yan Chen;Huijuan Feng;Jiayao Ma;Rui Peng

  • Deformation of the Miura-ori patterned sheet

    Sicong Liu;Guoxing Lu;Guoxing Lu;Yan Chen;Yew Wei Leong

  • Quasi-static axial crushing of thin-walled tubes with a kite-shape rigid origami pattern: Numerical simulation

    Jiayao Ma;Jiayao Ma;Degao Hou;Yan Chen;Zhong You

  • Quasi-static large deformation compressive behaviour of origami-based metamaterials

    Jianjun Zhang;Dora Karagiozova;Zhong You;Yan Chen

  • Thermal performances of different types of underground heat exchangers

    Xinguo Li;Yan Chen;Zhihao Chen;Jun Zhao

  • Design of structural mechanisms

    Yan Chen

  • Light-weight thin-walled structures with patterned windows under axial crushing

    Jie Song;Yan Chen;Guoxing Lu

  • Programmable stiffness and shape modulation in origami materials: emergence of a distant actuation feature

    Tanmoy Mukhopadhyay;Jiayao Ma;Huijuan Feng;Degao Hou

  • The behavior of a functionally graded origami structure subjected to quasi-static compression

    Lin Yuan;Huaping Dai;Jichao Song;Jiayao Ma

  • Two-fold symmetrical 6R foldable frame and its bifurcations

    Yan Chen;Zhong You

  • Myard linkage and its mobile assemblies

    S.Y. Liu;Y. Chen

  • Motion Structures: Deployable Structural Assemblies of Mechanisms

    Zhong You;Yan Chen

  • On mobile assemblies of Bennett linkages

    Y Chen;Z You

  • Identification of a Class of Nonlinear Autoregressive Models With Exogenous Inputs Based on Kernel Machines

    Guoqi Li;Changyun Wen;Wei Xing Zheng;Yan Chen

  • An Extended Myard Linkage and its Derived 6R Linkage

    Y. Chen;Z. You

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhong You
Zhong You University of Oxford
Guoxing Lu
Guoxing Lu Zhejiang University
Changyun Wen
Changyun Wen Nanyang Technological University
Ying-Jin Yuan
Ying-Jin Yuan Tianjin University
I-Ming Chen
I-Ming Chen Nanyang Technological University
Daihua Zhang
Daihua Zhang Applied Materials (United States)
Ling Bing Kong
Ling Bing Kong Nanyang Technological University
Bo Li
Bo Li Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Guoqi Li
Guoqi Li Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Subodh G. Mhaisalkar
Subodh G. Mhaisalkar Nanyang Technological University

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