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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) · Textile composites & impact mechanics
I'm Qingsong Wei, a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) working on how three-dimensional woven fabrics and textile composites respond to ballistic impact. My work combines meso-scale finite element modelling, gas-gun experiments, and architecture-level design. This site collects the work as it becomes public.
My work follows one question through several scales: how does fabric architecture shape the way a textile composite absorbs and distributes impact energy? I combine meso-scale finite element modelling (ABAQUS/LS-DYNA), gas-gun experiments, digital image correlation, and physics-informed surrogates to connect yarn-level damage with structural response.
Penetration, deformation, and energy absorption in three-dimensional woven fabrics — how projectile geometry, clamping, impact angle, and strain rate change the failure mechanism. Experimental work uses gas-gun impact testing and digital image correlation.
Meso-scale finite element models that connect fibre bundles, yarns, fabric architecture, and structural response, with high-strain-rate behaviour and progressive damage made explicit. Recent work extends these models with physics-informed neural networks and Gaussian-process surrogates.
Comparative studies of angle-interlock, orthogonal, layer-to-layer, and hybrid architectures — using fabric structure as a design variable for protective composites in Kevlar, CFRP, and GFRP systems.
A selection of peer-reviewed journal articles. The full list, with DOIs, is on the publications page.
All publications (27)Journal of Composite Materials2026
Journal of Materials Science2026Vol. 61(32)23714-23732
Applied Composite Materials2026Vol. 33(6)
Textile Research Journal2025
The Journal of The Textile Institute2025Vol. 116(4)742-756
Composite Structures2021Vol. 266113778
Composites Part B: Engineering2020Vol. 201108275
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Lecturer in the School of Textile Science and Engineering, Hangzhou. Research on 3D woven textile composites, ballistic impact, and meso-scale finite element modelling.
Research visit in the College of Design and Engineering, Singapore.
Postdoctoral research in the School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Fuzhou.
Doctoral research on the ballistic impact mechanics of 3D woven textile composites. Supervisors: Prof. Gu Bohong and Prof. Sun Baozhong.
Undergraduate training in textile engineering.
Editorial service for the journal Polymers.
Young editorial board member for the journal Cotton Textile Technology.
Member of the Textile-Structured Composites Committee.
Research funding, selected patents, and the methods that support the modelling and experiments. Funding follows the CV updated in August 2026; patent records follow Google Patents.
All patentsZhejiang Department of EducationRMB 20,000
Zhejiang Natural Science Foundation (ZJNSF)RMB 100,000
LQ23A020008
Zhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityRMB 120,000
22202007-Y
Donghua UniversityRMB 20,000
CUSF-DH-D-2021013
Zhejiang Natural Science Foundation (ZJNSF)RMB 100,000
LY24E030004
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)RMB 500,000
51875099
CN121914433A
Zhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityGoogle Patents
CN121557788A
Zhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityGoogle Patents
CN121702229A
Zhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityGoogle Patents
CN121835249A
Zhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityGoogle Patents
CN120142045A
Zhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityGoogle Patents
CN119374415A
Zhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityGoogle Patents
Sources: CV (August 2026); patent data via Google Patents (October 2026).
If you work on textile composites, impact mechanics, or multiscale modelling — or want to discuss a collaboration — write to me.
Emailwqs@zstu.edu.cn