Prof. Lu Zhang received his PhD from Loughborough University, UK. He is mainly engaged in research on the fatigue failure and life evaluation of high-temperature alloys and ceramic matrix composites used in aerospace engines. He presided over the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation Youth Fund, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Special Funding, and has participated in many major scientific research projects funded by the British Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Foundation (EPSRC) on the fatigue failure mechanism.