Professor Wang
at Mechanical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering
at Center for Surface Engineering and Tribology
at TAM
at NIMSI
at IIN
Research group
Tribological-Interfacial Science and Engineering
Mechanical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, Technological Institute, Office A216
2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208; (847) 467-7510, qwang@northwestern.edu
Teaching
Professor Wang teaches ME 315 Design of Elements, ME346 Introduction to Tribology, ME446 Advanced Tribology, and ISEN 350 WX Fellows Program: Energy Technology and Policy in China.
Open-Source Software
DC-FFT for contact simulation (Dr. S. Liu) and computational contact mechanics
Elastic fields by a cuboidal inclusion in a half space (Drs. S. Liu, Z. Wang and X. Jin)
Elastic fields by a cuboidal inclusion in two joined half-spaces (Dr. Z. Wang, under construction)
Contact fields in multilayered materials, imperfect interface problems (Drs. C. Yu and Z. Wang, under construction)
Facilities
Professor Wang’s labs have equipment systems for the studies on surface science (atomic-force probing and surface tension), EHL film and traction, material friction and wear, surface topography and roughness, journal-bearing lubrication, rolling-contact fatigue, high-temperature nano-indentation, and lubricant properties, as well as a vacuum oven and several furnaces and microscopes for material research.
The manufacturing team has shared MRI equipment systems, a laser micro-machining system and an additive rapid prototyping instrument, for surface engineering.
Northwestern University provides support to all instructional, research, and service activities. NUANCE Center (Atomic-and Nanoscale Characterization Experimental Center) integrates three existing complementary instrumentation facilities at NU: EPIC, NIFTI, and Keck-II. Metrology Laboratory has surface evaluation (Brown & Sharpe, Wayco, Zyco New Vision 7500), roundness measurement (Taylor & Hobbson), linear, straightness and angular interferometry (HP), and dimensional metrology by a variety of measurement tools. Instrument Shops of the Technological Institute offer help on machining parts and test specimens. Computation facilities QUEST consists of 504 diskless IBM iDataplex nodes, with 2.4 GHz Intel Nehalem Quad Core Xeon processors (2 per node) for a total of 4032 cores.