Fan Feng Research Group

Research

Our research lies at the interface of solid mechanics, applied mathematics, and materials science. We devote our passion and individuality to developing theories that are simple, profound, and universal. Centered on rational mechanics, our work seeks unified theoretical descriptions of complex materials and structures through geometry, symmetry, compatibility, and variational principles, with particular emphasis on the connection between microstructures, intrinsic metrics, and macroscopic mechanical behavior. Our research encompasses martensitic phase transformations and geometric compatibility, helical and periodic material structures, origami/kirigami, and liquid crystal elastomers. By extending the classical framework of rational mechanics beyond conventional constitutive laws to systems involving phase transformations, geometric constraints, and active responses, our work aims to establish fundamental mechanical and mathematical principles for shape evolution and functional emergence of programmable materials and structures.

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本课题组主要从事固体力学、应用数学与材料科学交叉领域的研究。我们致力于发展简洁、深刻和普适的理论框架。研究以理性力学为核心， 关注如何从几何、对称性、相容性和变分原理出发，建立复杂材料与结构的统一理论描述，揭示材料微观结构、内禀度量与宏观力学响应之间的联系。 重点研究马氏体相变及其界面相容性、螺旋与周期材料结构、折纸剪纸结构、液晶弹性体等体系。 旨在推动理性力学从经典连续介质的本构与平衡理论，进一步拓展至具有相变、几何约束和主动响应的复杂材料系统，为理解可编程材料/结构的形态演化和功能涌现提供数学力学基础。

具体的科研方向见Research Page。

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Research overview.