本人长期从事高效毁伤与防护技术、爆炸力学、材料冲击本构及损伤行为、弹药的新概念、新结构的研究，先后完成或正在承担了国家重大专项、973 项目、国家自然科学基金、国家重点实验室基金、南京理工大学青年学者基金项目、中国博士后基金项目等项目。参与了多项国家自然科学基金项目、国家高新工程、重点基础、重点预研和省部级型号的研究与研制工作，2007年以来在国内外学术刊物及国际会议上发表论文90 余篇，其中SCI 收录21 篇、EI 收录40余 篇。代表论文如下：

[1]X.F. Zhang, A.S. Shi, J. Zhang, L. Qiao, Y. He and Z.W. Guan. Thermochemical modeling of temperature controlled shock-induced chemical reactions in multifunctional energetic structural materials under shock compression, JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS ,2012,111, 123501.

[2]X. F. Zhang, L. Qiao, A. S. Shi, J. Zhang, and Z. W. Guan. A cold energy mixture theory for the equation of state in solid and porous metal mixtures, JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS ,2011,110, 013506.

[3]Xian-feng Zhang, Zheng-xiang Huang, Liang Qiao, Detonation wave propagation in double- layer cylindrical high explosive charges, Propellants Explos. Pyrotech. 2011, 36, 210.

[4]Zhang Xian-feng and Qiao Liang, Studies on jet formation and penetration for a double-layer shaped charge, Combustion, Explosion, and Shock Waves, 2011, 47:241.

[5]X.F. Zhang, F. Andrieux, D.Z. Sun, Pseudo-elastic description of polymeric foams at finite deformation with stress softening and residual strain effects, Materials and Design 2011,32,877.

[6]X.F. Zhang, Y.C. Li. On comparison of the ballistic performance of 10% zirconia toughened alumina and 95% alumina ceramic target. Material and Design, 2010, 31(4): 1945.

[7]Xianfeng Zhang, Yongchi Li, Niansong Zhang, Numerical study on anti-penetration process of alumina ceramic (AD95) to tungsten long rod projectiles. International Journal of Modern Physics B.25: 2091-2103, 2009.

[8]Yi Wang, Wei Jiang, Xianfeng Zhang, Hongying Liu et al. Energy release characteristics of impact-initiated energetic aluminum-magnesium mechanical alloy particle with nanometer-scale structure. Thermochimica Acta 512 (2011) 233–239.

[9]张先锋 赵晓宁.夹层装药的超压爆轰研究综述. 含能材料,2011,3: 352-360

[10]张先锋，赵晓宁，乔良,反应金属冲击反应过程理论分析, 爆炸与冲击, 2010, 30(2):143-151