Biography
Dr. Qinan Han is currently working as a Lecturer at College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA). He received his bachelor’s degree (BEng) from Tsinghua University in 2013. He obtained his Ph.D from Tsinghua University in 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Huiji Shi.
Research interests:
- Fretting fatigue and low cycle fatigue of Ni-based superalloys
- Characterization of advanced alloys using in-situ SEM and EBSD
- Crystal plasticity simulation on mechanical behaviors of single-crystal and poly-crystal alloys
- Data-driven method to understand and model material properties


Education
Tsinghua University, 2013-2018
Ph.D in Mechanics
First-class Scholarship, Outstanding Graduate of Beijing
Dissertation: Research on the Crystal Orientation and Temperature-Related Fretting Fatigue Properties of Ni-based Single Crystal Superalloy
Supervisor: Professor Shi Huiji
Tsinghua University, 2009-2013
B.Eng. Engineering Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering
Excellent Graduation Thesis, National Encouragement Scholarship, First-class Scholarship
Professional Experience
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), 2019-present
Lecturer
Selected Publications
For more details see Scholar Page or Research Gate
Han, Q.-N., Rui, S.-S., Qiu, W., Ma, X., Su, Y., Cui, H., . . . Shi, H. (2019). Crystal orientation effect on fretting fatigue induced geometrically necessary dislocation distribution in Ni-based single-crystal superalloys. Acta Materialia.
Han, Q.-N., . . . Shi, H. (2019). Effect of crystal orientation on the indentation behaviour of Ni-based single crystal superalloy. Materials Science & Engineering A.
Han QN, Lei XS, . . . Cui HT, Shi HJ. (2020). Effects of temperature and load on fretting fatigue induced geometrically necessary dislocation distribution in titanium alloy. Materials Science & Engineering A.
Han, Q.-N., Qiu, W., He, Z., Su, Y., Ma, X., & Shi, H.-J. (2018). The effect of crystal orientation on fretting fatigue crack formation in Ni-based single-crystal superalloys: In-situ SEM observation and crystal plasticity finite element simulation. Tribology international.
Rui, S.-S., Shang, Y.-B., Fan, Y.-N., Han, Q.-N., Niu, L.-S., Shi, H.-J., . . . Komai, N. (2018). EBSD analysis of creep deformation induced grain lattice distortion: A new method for creep damage evaluation of austenitic stainless steels. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 733, 329-337.
Su, Y., Han, Q.-N., Zhang, C.-C., Shi, H.-J., Niu, L.-S., Deng, G.-J., & Rui, S.-S. (2019). Effects of secondary orientation and temperature on the fretting fatigue behaviors of Ni-based single crystal superalloys. Tribology international, 130, 9-18.
Academic activities
2019 PHM Conference Data Challenge, 4th Place
2018 Tsinghua University Laboratory Construction Contribution Award, Third Prize (first author), Macro and Micro Fretting Fatigue Experiment System
Undergraduate Excellent Graduation Thesis of Tsinghua University
Dr. Han serves as a Peer Reviewer for Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics , Chinese Journal of Aeronautics.
Conferences
Qinan Han, Jianwen Fang, Haitao Cui, Crystal orientation effect on the fretting fatigue behavior in Ni-based single crystal superalloys, The 8th International Conference on Fracture Fatigue and Wear (FFW 2020), August 26-27, 2020, Online conference.
Qinan Han, Wenhui Qiu, Haitao Cui, Huiji Shi, Crystal Plasticity Simulation of the Indentation Behavior of Ni-based Single Crystal Superalloy Considering the Crystal Orientation Effect, 11th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM 2020), 9th-12th August 2020, Virtual Conference.
Qinan Han, Shao-Shi Rui, Yue Su, Haitao Cui, Huiji Shi. The Distributions of Geometrically Necessary Dislocation under Different Crystal Orientations in Fretting Fatigue of Ni-based Single-crystal Superalloys. The 16th Asia-Pacific Conference on Fracture and Strength 2020 (APCFS2020). November 3-7 2020. Online conference.
Qi-Nan Han, Hui-Ji Shi, Fretting fatigue crack formation in Ni-base single-crystal superalloys: in-situ SEM experiment and crystal plasticity analysis, 6th World Tribology Congress, 2017, Beijing, China.
Technical skills
- Programming: Fortran, Matlab, Python, C, Html5/WXML & CSS & Javascript, Cross-platform App Development, VueJS, Git, Markdown, Latex
- Software: Abaqus and UMAT, OIM, Solidworks, Catia, Hbuilder, Image processing softwares, Data processing softwares
- Language skills: Chinese, English (IELTS 7.0)
Contact information
hanqn at nuaa.edu.cn
Address
A10 Building, 29 Yudao Road, Nanjing 210016, Jiangsu, China
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Last update: 18/12/2020