Member of the editorial board of "Journal of Computational Mechanics"; member of the editorial board of "Chinese Mechanical Engineering"; member of the editorial board of Int.J of Vehicle Safety; deputy editor-in-chief of the editorial board of Int.J of Computational Methods.
Member of the Engineering Department of the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Education; member of the Discipline Evaluation Group of the State Council Degree Committee; SAE member; member of the National “10th Five-Year Plan” 863 Plan Expert Committee in the Field of Advanced Manufacturing and Automation Technology; Vice Chairman of the China Automotive Engineering Association, Consultant to Global Automotive Elite Organization. Scientific research projects: Zhong Zhihua has presided over the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" and "Tenth Five-Year Plan" key technological research projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Outstanding Youth Fund Project, the National Natural Science Foundation of China key projects and general projects, the Ford Foundation Project, the National Machinery Industry There are more than ten important scientific research projects at the provincial and ministerial level and above, including the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" key projects for technological development, and a number of important enterprise R&D projects.
In 1997, he developed stamping forming simulation software with independent copyright and won the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He was also approved to host the national "Ninth Five-Year Plan" scientific and technological research project "Automotive Cover Parts Stamping Forming Process and Mold Technology" Development and Application", many technologies of this project have reached the international advanced level.
In 2001, China's first truly new concept car developed by Zhong Zhihua's team was born at Hunan University. It was the first diamond-shaped car in the world with excellent crash safety performance and was identified by experts. The committee identified it as a major innovation and my country's first truly new concept car. This kind of car is obviously forward-looking in technology. It can not only become a new family car, but also be designed as an electric car. Its design technology has obtained a national utility model patent. At the same time, the "modular lightweight technology" he invented during the development of diamond-shaped vehicles is also being applied in the design and manufacturing of traditional structural vehicles, which is of great significance to energy conservation, emission reduction and innovative vehicle design and manufacturing processes.
In 2002, the "thin plate stamping technology" of Zhong Zhihua's team was appraised by experts as having generally reached the internationally advanced level. This will help improve the new product development capabilities of my country's related industries, especially the automotive industry, and enable participation in international The long-term goal of competing and achieving our due status is of great significance. And this result has been widely used in Shanghai General Motors, Nanjing Yuejin, Changfeng Automobile and other companies, and was selected by the Shanghai Supercomputer Center as a parallel automobile design and manufacturing software platform.
In 2008, Zhong Zhihua’s team developed a series of six-wheel lunar rover mobile systems with main and auxiliary rocker arms commonly used at home and abroad, and the world’s unique four-wheel diamond-shaped lunar rover mobile system. This new diamond-shaped four-wheel mobile system is based on the design concept of "four wheels and three axes" and uses the minimum number of wheels to achieve the three-axis performance of the six-wheel mobile system commonly used at home and abroad. This mobile system not only has the basic driving performance of a six-wheel system, but also has superior performance in steering, climbing, and obstacle crossing. It also has unique advantages such as simple structure, flexible manipulation, high lightweight, and low energy consumption. Through relevant tests and verifications such as similar lunar surface environments, its performance meets or is better than the corresponding technical indicators, providing a new choice for the unmanned lunar surface patrol surveyor mobile system, which fully reflects China's independent innovation capabilities. This has become a candidate model for China's moon landing project.
Monographs and papers: He has published more than 120 articles and 3 books, which have been included in the internationally authoritative EI and SCI and cited by others more than 200 times; many innovative achievements have important international influence. , relevant papers have been published in authoritative publications such as "Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering", and have been included and cited by SCI and EI.
Monographs: Automobile Crash Safety Technology, 2003, Machinery Industry Press; Computer Simulation and Application of Thin Plate Stamping Forming Process, 1998, Beijing Institute of Technology Press; Finite Element Procedures For Contact- Impact Problems, 1993, Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press, UK), Oxford, single author
Paper: 1.Z.H. Zhong, Finite Element Procedures for Contact-Impact Problems, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-856386-3 , 1993
2.Z.H. Zhong, G.Y. Li. Accurate and efficient shell element with improved reduced integration rules, Structural Engineering and mechanics.Vol.8 No.6, 596-605 1999
3.Z.H. Zhong, L. Nilsson (1996), A unified contact algorithms based on the territory concept, computer Method in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol.130, 1-16
4.Z.H. Zhong, J. Mackerle(1994) Contact-Impact Problems-A Review with Bibliography, Applied Mechanics Review, Vol.47, No.2, 55-76.
5.Z.H. Zhong, L. Nilsson. Contact- impact algorithms on paralleled computers, Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol, 150, 253-263, 1994
6.Z.H. Zhong, L. Nilsson. Lagrange multiplier approach for evaluation of friction in explicit finite element analysis, Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 10, 249-255, 1994
7.Z.H. Zhong, L. Nilsson. Automatic contact searching algorithm for dynamic finite element analysis, the International Journal of computers and structures, Vol. . 52, No.2, 187-197, 1994
8.Z.H. Zhong. A bilinear shell element with the cross-reduced integration tech
nique, International Journal for Numerical methods in Engineering, Vol.36, 611-625, 1993
9.Z.H. Zhong, J. Mackerle(1992), Static contact problems A review, Engineering computations, Vol.9 , 3-37
10.Z.H. Zhong, L. Nilsson. Lagrange multiplier approach for evaluation of friction in explicit finite element analysis, Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 10, 249-255, 1994
11. Z.H. Zhong, J. Mackerle. Static contact problems, Engineering Computation, Vol. 9, 3-37, 1992
12. Z.H. Zhong, L. Nilsson. A contact searching algorithm for general 3-D contact-impact problems, Computers and Structures, Vol. 34, No.2, 327-335, 1990
13.Z.H. Zhong, L. Nilsson (1989), A contact searching algorithm for general contact problems, Computers & Structures, Vol.33, No.1 197-209
14. L. Nilsson, Z.H. Zhong (1992), High performance algorithms for the solution of general contact- impact problems, Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol.138, No.1, 65-74 National outstanding teachers, ministerial-level cross-century academic leaders, young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions, national "hundred-thousand-thousand talent project", State Council Government Special allowance, National Distinguished Youth Fund, Advanced Individual in Science and Technology of China Machinery Industry, Seventh China Youth Science and Technology Award, China Patent Excellence Award, Special Prize of China Inventors Association Invention and Entrepreneurship Award, First Prize in Young Teacher Research Category of Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation Award, the special prize of the second "Invention and Entrepreneurship Award", the first prize of General Motors China Science and Technology Achievement Award (the only one), the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award.
Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award (Youth Award) of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Second Prize of Natural Science Award of Chinese Universities, Second Prize of Technical Invention Award of Chinese Universities, First Prize of Hunan Provincial Teaching Achievements, Hunan Outstanding Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award, Hunan First Prize of the Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, the First May Fourth Youth Medal of Hunan Province, and one of the Ten Outstanding Youths of Changsha City.