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• Worswick M.J., Chen Z.T., Pilkey A.K. and Lloyd D.J., Damage Percolation Modelling in Aluminum Alloy Sheet, Chapter 44 of Continuum Scale Simulation of Engineering Materials: Fundamentals-Microstructures-Process-Applications, Eds. Dierk Raabe, Franz Roters, Frédéric Barlat, Long-Qing Chen. ISBN: 3-527-30760-5, Springer, 2004, pp. 805-816

• Zhou Zhen-gong, Z.T. Chen, Basic solution of a mode I limit-permeable crack in functionally-graded piezoelectric/piezomagnetic materials, International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2008, vol. 45, 2265-2296
• M. Khanal, Y. Zheng, Z. Chen, Finite element modeling of a new custom made orthotropic post for dental applications, Advanced Materials Research, 2008, vol. 32, 193-196
• Zhou Zhen-gong, Z.T. Chen, Fracture mechanics analysis of a partially conducting mode I crack in piezoelectromagnetic materials, European Journal of Mechanics/A Solids, (in press, available online)
• P. W. Zhang, Z. G. Zhou, Z. T. Chen, Basic solution of two parallel mode-I permeable cracks in functionally-graded piezoelectric materials, Archive of Applied Mechanics, 2008, vol. 78, 411-430
• M.H. Babaei, Z.T. Chen, Elastic field of a composite cylinder with a spatially varying dynamic eigenstrain , Meccanica, 2008 (in press)
• M.H. Babaei, Z.T. Chen, Analytical solutions for the electromechanical behaviour of a rotating functionally graded piezoelectric hollow shaft, Archive of Applied Mechanics, 2008, vol. 78, No. 7, 489-500
• M. H. Babaei, Z.T. Chen, Exact solutions for radially polarized and magnetized magnetoelectroelastic rotating cylinders, Smart Materials and Structures, 17 (2008) 025035
• Zengtao Chen, Michael Worswick, Strain loci in stretch flange forming of aluminum alloys, Key Engineering Materials, 2007, vols.345-346, 1085-1088
• Zengtao Chen, Dynamic analysis of a piezoelectric material with an impermeable penny-shaped crack under pure torsional wave, Key Engineering Materials, 2007, vols. 345-346, 433-436
• Zengtao Chen and Michael J. Worswick, Void nucleation in aluminum alloys, Materials Science and Engineering, A., vol. 483–484 (2008) 99–101
• W.J. Xia and Z.T. Chen, A quasi-exact yield criterion for anisotropic porous ductile sheet metals, Acta Mechanica, 2007, vol. 191, 93-108
• Yang Zhang and Zengtao Chen, On the effect of stress triaxiality on void coalescence, International Journal of Fracture, 2007, vol. 143, 105-112
• C.J. Butcher, Z.T. Chen and M.J. Worswick, Lower bound damage-based finite element modelling of stretch flange forming, International Journal of Fracture, 2006, vol. 142, 289-298
• Zengtao Chen, Michael J. Worswick, and David J. Lloyd, Experimental Study of the Stretch Flange Formability of Al-Mg Sheet, Materials Science Forum, 2006, vols. 519-521, 967-972
• Zengtao Chen, Michael J. Worswick, and David J. Lloyd, Damage-based finite element modelling of stretch flange forming of aluminum-magnesium sheet, Materials Science Forum, 2006, vols. 519-521, 815-820
• Zengtao Chen, Dynamic fracture mechanics study of an electrically impermeable mode III crack in a transversely isotropic piezoelectric materials under pure electric load, International Journal of Fracture, 2006, Vol. 141, 395-402
• Z.T. Chen, Interface cracks in piezoelectric bi-material systems under mechanical impact, International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2006, Vol. 43, 5085-5099
• Zengtao Chen, M.J. Worswick, A.K. Pilkey, D.J. Lloyd, Multi-scale damage percolation simulation and experiment of aluminum alloy stretch flanging, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2005, 53, 2692-2717
• Chen Z.T., Worswick M.J., Cinotti N., Pilkey A.K., Lloyd D., A linked FE-damage percolation model of aluminium alloy sheet forming. Int. J. Plasticity, 2003, Vol.19, No. 12, 2099-2120
• Chen Z.T. and Worswick M.J., Dynamic fracture behaviour of a cracked piezoelectric half space under anti-plane mechanical and in-plane electric impact. Arch. Appl. Mech., 2002, Vol. 72, No. 1, 1-12
• Worswick M.J., Chen Z.T. Pilkey A.K., Lloyd D. and Court S., Damage characterization and damage percolation modelling in aluminum alloy sheet, Acta Materialia, 2001, Vol. 49, No. 14, 2791-2803
• Meguid S.A. and Chen Z.T., Transient response of a finite piezoelectric strip containing coplanar insulating cracks under electromechanical impact, Mech. Mater., 2001, Vol. 33, No. 2, 85-96
• Chen Z.T. and Worswick M.J., Dynamic response of two coplanar cracks in a half space under antiplane shear, Mech. Research Comm., 2000, Vol. 27, No. 6, 691-69630
• Chen Z.T. and Worswick M.J., Antiplane mechanical and inplane electric time-dependent load applied to two coplanar cracks in piezoelectric ceramic material. Theo. Appl. Fract. Mech., 2000, Vol. 33, No. 3, 173-184
• Chen Z.T. and Meguid, The transient response of a piezoelectric strip with a vertical crack under electromechanical impact load. Int. J. Solids Struct., 2000, Vol. 37, No. 42, 6051-6062