About the leading editor:
Li Xikui obtained his PhD at the University Wales of Swansea in 1989. He became Full Professor at DUT in 1992. He was an ARC (Australia Research Council) Int Fellow at University of Newcastle (2006). His main research interest is Computational Mechanics. He has published over 180 journal papers.
Prof. Li serves as a member on the Editorial Boards of Int. J. Numerical Methods Eng., Int. J. Damage Mechanics, Chinese Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Chinese Journal of Computational Mechanics. He also served as vice-Chairman (1999-2003, 2007/11), Chairman (2003/07) of Academic Committee of Solid Mechanics of China. He was Director of Division of “Structures, Architectures and Environments”, Expert Panel Committee of the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (2000/01).