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Zhirui Wang

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Professor Emeritus/EmeritaDepartment of Materials Science and EngineeringUniversity of Toronto

Zhirui Wang

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Emeritus professors are retired and rarely take new students.
No publications on record.
Principal investigator on 10 research grants (10 NSERC), most recently in 2014.

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Cyclic deformation and fatigue of polycrystalline Cu under pure compressive cyclic loading condition
NSERC · 2014 · Principal investigator
$145,000
Automobile of the 21st Century/L'automobile du XXIe siècle
NSERC · 2012 · Co-investigator
$13,487,000
Mechanical/thermal responses and microstructure evolution of ultrafine - (UF) and nano-grained materials with high density UF/nano-sized growth twins
NSERC · 2009 · Principal investigator
$115,000

All 17 grants and awards

Cyclic deformation and fatigue of polycrystalline Cu under pure compressive cyclic loading condition

Principal investigatorNSERC2014Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Wang, Zhirui

$145,000

Automobile of the 21st Century/L'automobile du XXIe siècle

Co-investigatorNSERC2012Networks of Centres of Excellence

Principal investigators: Frise, Peter

$13,487,000

Mechanical/thermal responses and microstructure evolution of ultrafine - (UF) and nano-grained materials with high density UF/nano-sized growth twins

Principal investigatorNSERC2009Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Wang, Zhirui

$115,000

Automobile of the 21st Century/L'automobile du XXIe siècle

Co-investigatorNSERC2008Networks of Centres of Excellence

Principal investigators: Frise, Peter

$17,400,000

Electron backscatter diffraction characterization of advanced materials

Co-investigatorNSERC2006Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Hibbard, Glenn

$106,963

Cyclic deformation and fatigue electroformed ultra-fine-grained and nano-grained materials

Principal investigatorNSERC2004Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Wang, Zhirui

$198,000

Mechanical response and mechanisms of nanocrystalline ni & cu materials

Principal investigatorNSERC2000Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Wang, Zhirui

$158,400

Mechanism of cyclic creep and cyclic softening of engineering materials

Principal investigatorNSERC1996Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Wang, Zhirui

$125,097

Study of fatigue properties of high strength spring steels: Sag\relaxation behaviour and inclusion-related fatigue crack nucleation

Principal investigatorNSERC1995Collaborative Research and Development Grants

Principal investigators: Wang, Zhirui

$238,500

Strategic net-shape casting of aluminum alloy wires for corrosion resistant coating applications

Co-investigatorNSERC1995Strategic Projects - Group

Principal investigators: McLean, Alexander

$327,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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