Research

Computational mechanics/stress analysis; boundary element methods; fracture mechanics; anisotropic thermoelasticity; mechanics of composites.

Activities

Member, Editorial Board: Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences; Electronic Journal for Boundary Elements; Advances in Fracture Mechanics: Book Series, WIT Press (U.K.).

Member, International Scientific Committee: International Conference on Computational & Experimental Sciences (ICCES) Conference series; Boundary Element Techniques (BeTeq) Conference series; Asia-Pacific International Conferences on Computational Methods in Engineering (ICOME); ICF12 Conference, Technical Program Committee

Journal Articles

C.L. Tan, Y.C. Shiah and C.W. Lin (2009),"Stress analysis of 3D generally anisotropic elastic solids using the boundary element method", CMES Comp. Modeling Engng. Sc., 41, 195-214.

K. Plante and C.L. Tan (2009), “Elastic fracture mechanics analysis of thick-walled curved tubing with a semi-elliptical crack by BEM”, J. Strain Analysis, (Accepted for publication, 18 Feb. 2009)

Y.C. Shiah, C.L.Tan and V.G. Lee (2008),  ”Evaluation of explicit-form fundamental solutions for displacements and stresses in 3D anisotropic solids”, CMES Comp. Modeling Engng. Sc., 34, 205-226.

J. Sladek, V. Sladek, C.L. Tan and S.N. Atluri (2008), “Transient heat conduction problem in 3D anisotropic functionally graded solids by the MLPG”, CMES Comp. Modeling Engng. Sc., 32, 161-174.

Monograph Chapter

J. Sladek, V. Sladek, C.L. Tan and S.N. Atluri (2009), “Heat conduction problem in 3D anisotropic functionally graded solids by meshless local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method”, in monograph “Advances in the MLPG  Method”, (eds.) S.N. Atluri, J. Sladek, and J. Soric.   (in press)

Conference Publications & Presentations

C.L. Tan and Y.C. Shiah (2009), “BEM stress analysis of 3D generally anisotropic elastic solids”, in Advances in Computational & Experimental Engineering & Sciences,  Proc. 2009 Int. Conf. Computational & Exptl. Engng. & Sc., Phuket, (eds.: W.H. Chen, S.N. Atluri), Tech Science Press, pp. 3-8. (Keynote paper)

Y.C. Shiah, C.L. Tan, V.G. Lee and Y.H. Chen (2008),  ”Evaluation of Green’s functions for 3D anisotropic elastic solids”, Proc. 9^th Int. Conf. Boundary Elem. Techniques, Seville, Spain,  July 2008, 119-124.

Y.C. Shiah, C.L. Tan and V.G. Lee, “Evaluation of fundamental solutions in BIE analysis for 3D anisotropic elastostatics”, Paper No. ICML20080620014, ICCES Symposium on Meshless &Other Novel Computational Methods, Suzhou, China, 13-17 October 2008.

J. Sladek, V. Sladek, C.L. Tan and S.N. Atluri, “Transient heat conduction problem in 3D anisotropic functionally graded solids by the MLPG”, Paper No. ICML20080728073, ICCES Symposium on Meshless &Other Novel Computational Methods, Suzhou, China, 13-17 October 2008.