About

Chao Xu received his B.S. and PhD from Northwestern Poly-technical University (NPU) in 2002 and 2007. He spent one year working as a post-doctoral fellow at University of Canterbury  from 2013 to  2014.  He is currently a full professor of structure mechanics and aerospace engineering at School of Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University.

His research interests include:

1) structural health monitoring of aerospace structures

2) mechanics and design of composite structures, visocoelastic sandwich structures

3) friction and contact  mechanics

4) nonlinear dynamics of jointed structures

Contact me at chao_xu@nwpu.edu.cn