Background of Education and Work Experience

• 2016- Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Chongqing University;

• 2013-2016 Lecturer, State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Transmissions, Chongqing University;

• 2010-2013 PhD degree, School of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK;

• 2007-2010 Master degree, School of Mechanical Engineering, Chongqing University;

• 2003-2007 Bachelor degree, Automotive Engineering Department, Shandong Jiaotong University.

Research Field

• Intelligent design of mechanical transmission systems

• Gear anti-fatigue design and manufacturing

• Polymer and composite gears

• Industry software development

Research and Honors

• 2016 &2021 Science & technology development award of the Ministry of Education, China

• authored more than 60 journal publications on In J Fatigue, Tribol Int, Wear etc., and more than 30 conference articles

• 20+ patents and 8 software copyrights

Selected Publications

• [1] Boyu Zhang, Huaiju Liu*, Caichao Zhu, Yibo Ge, Simulation of the fatigue-wear coupling mechanism of an aviation gear, Friction, 2021, 10.1007/s40544-020-0447-3.

• [2] Heli Liu, Huaiju Liu*, Caichao Zhu, Yibo Ge, Influence of load spectrum on contact fatigue damage of a case carburized wind turbine gear, Eng Fail Anal, 2021, 119: 105005.

• [3] Heli Liu, Huaiju Liu*, Caichao Zhu, Jinyuan Tang, Study on gear contact fatigue failure competition mechanism considering tooth wear evolution. Tribol Int, 2020, 147: 106277.

• [4] Zonglin Gu, Caichao Zhu*, Huaiju Liu, Subsurface stress-field analysis of generating ground helical gear based on finite line-contact mixed elastohydrodynamic lubrication, PIMech Eng J-J Eng, 2020.

• [5] Heli Liu, Huaiju Liu*, Caichao Zhu, Robert Parker, Effects of lubrication on gear performance: A review, Mech Mach Theory, 2020, 145: 103701.

• [6] Ye Zhou, Caichao Zhu*, Huaiju Liu, Hailan Song. Investigation of contact performance of case-hardened gears under plasto-elastohydrodynamic lubrication. Tribol Lett, 2019, 67(3): 92.

• [7] Wei Wang, Huaiju Liu*, Caichao Zhu, Jinyuan Tang, Chenxu Jiang, Evaluation of contact fatigue risk of a wind turbine carburized gear considering gradients of mechanical properties, Friction, 2020. 8(6): 1039-1050.

• [8] Haifeng He, Huaiju Liu*, Caichao Zhu, Jinyuan Tang, Study on the gear fatigue behavior considering the effect of residual stress based on the continuum damage approach, Eng Fail Anal, 2019, 104: 531-544.

• [9] Boyu Zhang, Huaiju Liu*, Houyi Bai, et al., Ratchetting–multiaxial fatigue damage analysis in gear rolling contact considering tooth surface roughness, Wear, 2019, 428–429: 137-146.

• [10] Zehua Lu, Huaiju Liu*, Renhua Zhang, Caichao Zhu, Yaqiang Shen, Dong Xin, The simulation and experiment research on contact fatigue performance of acetal gears, Mech Mater, 2021, 154: 103719.