Full Name: Hongyu Zhang

Birth Place: P.R. China

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher

Working Unit: State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Tsinghua University

Education (Degree): Center for Precision Technologies, University of Huddersfield, UK (PhD)

Research Interest: Total Hip Replacement, Biotribology, Surface Metrology

Award: 2008 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad

Publications:

1. Brown, L., Zhang, H., Blunt, L., Barrans, S. (2007) Reproduction of fretting wear at the stem–cement interface in total hip replacement, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Engineering in Medicine, 221 (8), pp. 963–971.

2. Zhang, H., Brown, L., Blunt, L. (2008) Static shear strength between polished stem and seven commercial acrylic bone cements, Journal of Materials Science: Material in Medicine, 19 (2), pp. 591–599.

3. Zhang, H., Brown, L., Blunt, L., Barrans, S. (2008) Influence of femoral stem surface finish on the apparent static shear strength at the stem–cement interface, Journal of the Mechanical Behaviour of Biomedical Materials, 1 (1), pp. 96–104.

4. Zhang, H., Blunt, L., Jiang, X., Brown, L., Barrans, S., Zhao, Y. (2008) Review article: femoral stem wear in cemented total hip replacement, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Engineering in Medicine, 222 (5), pp. 583–592.

5. Zhang, H., Brown, L., Blunt, L., Jiang, X., Barrans, S. (2009) Understanding initiation and propagation of fretting wear on the femoral stem in total hip replacement, Wear, 266 (5–6), pp. 566–569.

6. Blunt, L., Zhang, H., Barrans, S., Jiang, X., Brown, L. (2009) What results in fretting wear on polished femoral stems, Tribology International, doi: 10.1016/j.triboint.2008.11.007, in press.

7. Zhang, H., Brown, L., Barrans, S., Blunt, L., Jiang, X. (2009) Investigation of relative micromotion at the stem–cement interface in total hip replacement, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Engineering in Medicine, accepted.