Department of Electromechanical Engineering

 

Prof. Duan Menglan

Education
PhD from China University of Petroleum- Beijing (China)
Master from China University of Petroleum- Beijing (China)
Bachelor from Jianghan Petroleum College (merged to Yangtze
University since 2003)

Research 
Offshore Oil Engineering

Subsea Engineering
Fatigue and Fracture of Materials and Structures
Random Vibration and Vibration Reduction
Sea Ice Engineering Mechanics
Risk and Reliability in Offshore and Ocean Engineering
Has undertaken more than 140 research projects in offshore oil engineering, including projects of Natural Science Foundation of China, research subjects under 973 Program, 863 Key Projects, National Science and Technology Major Projects, and over 30 state projects of National Development and Reform Commission as well as Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

Programs Supervised For
Mechanical Engineering
Safety Engineering

Previous Teaching /
Working Experience
·         2006-present, China University of Petroleum- Beijing
·         2002-2006, Chief Engineer and Member of the Party Committee at CCS
·         1995-2006, China Classification Society (CCS)
·         1997-1998, invited to do post-doctoral researches as Senior Visiting Scholar at University of Rochester in USA
 
Other Functions 
Technical Committee Member of the 14th and 15th International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC)
Technical Committee Member of the 11th International Symposium on Practical Design of Ships and other Floating Structures (PRADS)
Scientific Committee Member of the 7th International Conference on Thin-Walled Structures (ICTWS-2014)
Scientific Committee Member of the 3rd International Conference on Fracture Fatigue and Wear (FFW 2014)
Committee Member of the 7th International Workshop on Ship Hydrodynamics (IWSH)
appointed by Ministry of Communications of PRC as an outstanding Senior Engineer (Senior Professional Title) in 1999

Professional Affiliations
·         the Distinguished Professor under the “Chutian Scholar Scheme of Hubei Province” (at Yangtze University)
·         PhD Supervisor at Fudan University and Dalian University of Technology
·         Visiting Professor at Federal University of Rio de Janeir - Brazil’s Research base for offshore oilHead of Sino-Brazil Deepwater Subsea Engineering Research Centre
·         Chairman of the China Branch of Society for Underwater Technology (SUT)
·         Member of Executive Committee and Technical Program Committee (TPC) of the International Offshore (Ocean) and Polar Engineering Conference
·         Vice-Chairman of the Operating Committee under Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
·         Member of the Expert Committee of China Petroleum and Petrochemical Equipment Industry Association (CPEIA)
·         Member of China Ocean Engineering Society, Vice-President of Beijing Society for Vibration Engineering
·         Executive Member of the Offshore Equipment Society under China Association of Oceanic Engineering
·         Member of Technical Committee for Standardization for China Petroleum Industry Offshore Oil Engineering
·         Member of Welding Mechanics and Structural Design Committee under China Mechanical Engineering Society
·         Member of the Ship Mechanics Academic Committee under Chinese Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
·         Member of the Expert Committee under China Development Bank
·         Chief Editor of international journals Development and Application of Oceanic Engineering and Frontier in Fossil Fuel Engineering
·         Editorial Board Member of international journals Ships and Offshore Structures, Thermal Energy and Power Engineering, Ships and Offshore Structures, Advances in Energy and International Journal of Energy Engineeringand 16 Chinese academic journals such as China Ocean Engineering and Petroleum Science
 
Contact
Email:mlduan@cup.edu.cn    TEL:86-10-89731689 
Address of Office:18# Fuxue Rd, Changping District, Beijing 102249

Publications
1.      Chuntu Liu, Menglan Duan, Experimental investigation on low-temperature fatigue crack propagation in offshore structural steel A131 under random sea ice loading, International Journal of Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol.53, No.2, 1995, 231-237
2.      Menglan Duan, Ice-induced low temperature fatigue crack propagation in offshore structural steel A131, China Ocean Engineering, Vol.12, No.3, 1998, 275-284
3.      Zhaojie Gao, Menglan Duan, Time and frequency analysis of ice-induced displacement responses of fixed platforms, China Ocean Engineering, Vol.12, No.4, 1998, 365-373
4.      Keqing Ding, Menglan Duan, A probabilistic model for fatigue crack propagation analysis, China Ocean Engineering, Vol.13, No.4, 1999, 411-418
5.      Huacan Fang, Menglan Duan, Reliability analysis of ice-induced fatigue and damage in offshore engineering structures, China Ocean Engineering, Vol.14, No.1, 2000, 15-24
6.      Menglan Duan, Jieming Liu, Some recent advances on ice related problems in offshore engineering, China Ocean Engineering, Vol.14, No.2, 2000, 129-142
7.      Huacan Fang, Menglan Duan, An integrated approach for fatigue life prediction of whole offshore platforms, China Ocean Engineering, Vol.15, No.2, 2001, 177-184
8.      Menglan Duan, Fatigue crack propagation in Steel A131 under ice loading of crushing, bending and buckling, China Ocean Engineering, Vol.15, No.3, 2001, 315-328
9.      Chuntu Liu, Taiyan Qin and Menglan Duan, Finite element analysis of damaged legs of offshore platform structures, China Ocean Engineering, Vol.16, No.3, 2002, 311-320
10.   Menglan Duan, Liming Liu and Taiyan Qin, Finite element methods for cracked components of structures, China Ocean Engineering, Vol.17, No.2, 2003, 177-187
11.   Huacan Fang, Menglan Duan, Xinlan Jia and Bin Xie, Fuzzy fatigue reliability analysis of offshore platforms in ice-infested waters, China Ocean Engineering, Vol.17, No.3, 2003, 307-314
12.   Sizhu Zhou, Menglan Duan and Segen Estefen, Stress analysis and optimum design of PDC die for offshore drilling engineering, China Ocean Engineering, Vol.19, No.4, 2005, 681-692
13.   Menglan Duan, Application of the pivot point on the FCP Diagram to low-temperature fatigue of materials, International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering, Vol.9, No.1, 1999, 68-72
14.   Menglan Duan, Chuntu Liu, Dynamic ice-induced responses of offshore fixed platforms, China Ocean Engineering, Vol.10, No.1, 1996, 55-63