Short-Term Visiting Scholars
Prof. Shiqiu Chen from Glenn Department of Civil Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University, U.S.A. visited to our research group on 10th Jul 2024. Prof. Chen gave a speech on Discrete element modeling of rigid and deformable granular materials. Thereafter, he conducted a tour of IOTS laboratory.
Prof. Giulia Viggiani from the University of Cambridge paid a visit to our research group at the invitation of Prof. Wan-Huan Zhou on 20th Jun 2024. During her visit, Prof. Viggiani gave a speech at the workshop and attentively engaged with the presentations given by three of our doctoral students. Thereafter, she conducted a tour of our laboratory. Prof. Viggiani highly praised the research efforts of our team and offered insightful recommendations.
Photos of Prof. Huang Hongwei (top left) and Prof. Zhang Dongmei (bottom left) from Tong Ji University gave us lecture on 5th Apr. 2024. Over the next few days, we introduced and discussed the current research in depth.
Photo of Prof. Chen Xiangsheng (Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) with Prof. Zhou and the members on 2th Nov. 2023.
Photo of Prof. Adam Bezuijen (Fifth) with Prof. Zhou and the members at Macao conference on smart city technologues on 4th Nov. 2023. (from the left)
Photo of Prof. Paulus P. Rahardjo (Fifth) with Prof. Zhou and the members on 12th Dec 2017. (from the left)
Photo of Prof. Ankit Garg(third) and Ankil Garg (fourth)with Prof. Zhou, Prof. Lok and the members on 17th Jul 2017. (From the left)
Photo of Prof. Ankit Garg(third) and Ankil Garg (fourth)with Prof. Zhou, Prof. Lok and the members on 17th Jul 2017. (From the left)
Photo of Prof. Anil Misra (fifth)and his student(Third) with Prof. Zhou, Prof. Lok and the members on 30th Aug 2017. (from the left)
Photo of Prof. Lyesse LALOUI (Fifth)with Prof. Zhou (Fourth) and the members on 11th Nov 2017. (Prof. Lyesse LALOUI is the from the left)
Photo of Prof. Li-jun SU making the lecture for Prof. Zhou and the members on 18th Dec 2017.
Photo of Prof. Benson Bin-Chen HSIUNG (Third) making the lecture for Prof. Zhou and the members on 5th Feb 2018. (from the left)
Photo of Prof. Xibin LI (Zhejiang Forestry University, Fourth) and the Laboratory visiting on 16 June 2018. (from the right)
Photo of (a) Dr. Weiqiang FENG (Hong Kong PolyU, Fifth) making the lecture and the Laboratory visiting on May 25 2018. (from the right)
Photo of (a) Prof. Ren-Peng CHEN making the lecture, (b) Prof. Lok give the UM gift for Prof. CHEN and (c) all the participants on June 23 2018.
Photo of Prof. Kostas Senetakis talking with and Prof. Zhou and the members on 15th May 2017. (Prof. Kostas is the first from the right, in Fig right)
Conference
Prof. Zhou gave a keynote lecture titled “Physics-informed Machine Learning for Long-term Settlement Prediction of HZMB Immersed Tunnel”.
Members of the research group, PhD students Yan Wei and Li Zhibin, Ms students Deng Yizhao, Yi-Ge Yang and An Jin had academic communications.
The 20th Annual Conference of HKSTAM 2016 in Conjunction with The 12th Shanghai – Hong Kong Forum on Mechanics and Its Application
The 20th Annual Conference of HKSTAM 2016 in conjunction with The 12th Shanghai – Hong Kong Forum on Mechanics and Its Application was hosted on 9 April 2016 in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).
Xueying Jing presented an attractive titled “Modelling soil-structural interface shear test using discrete element method”. A soil-structural interface shear test was performed, as a rolling resistance is imposed between spherical particles to reduce the particles’ rotation.
Linshuang Zhao made a presentation titled “A Simplified Model for the Column-Supported Embankment System”. A simplified model was carried out to study the load transfer mechanism for this kind of embankment.
Huaxiang Zhu investigated the interaction between force-chains (FCs) and meso-structures in this study, title “On the interaction between force-chains and confining meso-structures in two-dimensional granular materials
Photo of Linshuang Zhao, Prof. Zhou and Huaxiang Zhu (From left) at the conference
Laboratory visit in Hong Kong Poly University. (From left: Linshuang Zhao, Huangxiang Zhou and Wenbo Chen)
The 21st Annual Conference of HKSTAM 2017 The 13 the Jiangsu – Hong Kong Forum on Mechanics and Its Application
The 21st Annual Conference of HKSTAM (2017) in conjunction with the 13th Jiangsu – Hong Kong Forum on Mechanics and Its Application is held on April 8, 2017 at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Weibin Chen, Yongzhan Chen and Zhiliang Cheng did the presentation titled “3D DEM modelling on the interface directional shearing behavior between soil and structure”, “Enhancement of the Strength Properties of Pb Contaminated Soil Using Nanoscale Zero Valent Iron (nZVI)” and “Deflection measurement of thin-walled hollow tube with embedded FBG Sensors”
Zhiliang Cheng, Prof. Zhou, Yongzhan Chen and Weibin Chen (From left) in the Hong Kong Poly University. & The Best Student Presentation Award of Yongzhan Chen, only ten people awarded.
19 th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Seoul 2017
This conference held in Seoul, Korea on Sep.17-22 2017. Weibin Chen had a punishment in this 19th ICSMGE, which is titled “Effects of shear direction on the shearing behavior of a soil-structural interface using discrete element method”.
Photo of Weibin Chen presentation at ICSMGE conference
2nd International Symposium on Asia Urban GeoEngineering
The 2nd International Symposium on Asia Urban Geo-Engineering held on November 24-27, 2017 in Changsha, a historical and modern city in Hunan, China. The first symposium was held in Fukuoka, Japan. Prof. Zhou is one of the Scientific Committee members.
Prof. Zhou: First row, fourth from left.
Linshuang Zhao attended this conference and published one paper titled “Reliability-Based Design of Basal Heave Stability for Braced Excavation Using Three Different Methods”.
Group photo of the International Symposium on Asia Urban GeoEngineering. (Wanhuan Zhou at First row, fourth from left)
6th International Forum on Opto-electronic Sensor-based Monitoring in Geo-engineering
he 6th OSMG held in Nanjing University on 3-5 Nov 2017. Prof. Zhou was one of the International academic committee members. Zhiliang Cheng attended this conference. Poster of this paper was awarded the Best Poster Award.
Photo of Zhiliang Cheng and Prof. Honghu Zhu (Right) at OSMG.The Best Poster Award and the poster.
21st Annual Conference of HKSTAM 2018
The 21th Annual Conference of HKSTAM 2018 in conjunction with the 14th Shanghai–Hong Kong Forum on Mechanics and Its Application was held at April 14, 2018 in the Hong Kong Polytechnical University. The conference topics cover mechanics and its application in all science and engineering disciplines.
Weibin CHEN, Yongzhan CHEN and Zhiliang CHEGN attended this conference and made the presentations respectively, titled:
1) W.B. Chen and W.H. Zhou. Analysing the Effect of Tensile Stiffness on Geogrid Pullout Behavior using Discrete Element Method
2) Y.Z. Chen, W.H. Zhou and F.M. Liu. Oxidative Removal and Strength Properties of Bisphenol-A Contaminated Soil by Activated Persulfate
3) Z.L. Cheng and W.H. Zhou. Prediction of Field-Monitored Soil Suction using Genetic Programming
The participants in the (a) Conference Venue and (b) Hong Kong Polytechnical University
GeoShanghai International Conference 2018
The 4th GeoShanghai International Conference was held in Shanghai in May 27 2018. The Conference focuses on recent advances in Soil Behavior and Geomechanics, Rock Mechanics and Its Applications in Civil, Mining and Petroleum Engineering, Ground Improvement and Geosynthetics, Pavement Materials, Structures and Performance, Advances in Soil Dynamics and Foundation Engineering, Geoenvironmental Engineering, Tunneling and Underground Construction, New Frontiers in Geotechnical Engineering.
Yongzhan CHEN attended this conference and published one paper titled “Experimental Study on the Strength Characteristics of Lead Contaminated Soil with NZVI Treatment”. Xueying JING presented a poster titled “ Study on the effect of particle shape on the soil-rough interface shearing using 3D DEM”.
Conference photos: (a) Yongzhan CHEN presentation; (b) An assessor evaluating our poster; (c) Best poster award; (d) Round-table meeting with journal editors, including Prof. Hehua ZHU, Prof. Kerry Rowe, Prof. Daichao Sheng, Prof. Hsein Juang, Prof. Anand Puppala and Prof. Erol Tutumluer.
ISRERM 2018-6th International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management, May 30-June 01, 2018, Singapore.
This conference held at National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. On May 30-June 01, 2018. Linshuang Zhao submitted a conference paper to this symposium. The title is “3D geologic modeling with borehole data by general regression neural network”.
Photo of Linshuang ZHAO presentation at ISRERM conference
2018 Joint Annual Conference of Physical Societies in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (YGA2018)” (粵港澳大灣區物理學會2018聯合年會)
This conference taken place at the University of Macau from July 26 to 29, 2018. This is the first time for the University of Macau and the Physical Societies in Macao SAR, Hong Kong SAR and Guangdong to jointly organize this annual conference. This joint annual conference aims to gather researchers in all fields of physics as well as related disciplines, industries etc., and to provide opportunities for participants exchanging new developments in physics and making contact with each other.
Prof. Wan-Huan ZHOU was invited to make a presentation title “ Geotechnical Characteristics and Micro-structure of Pb Contamination Clay Treated with Nanoscale Zero-valent Iron (nZVI)”.
Photo of (a) Prof. Wanhuan ZHOU presentataion at YGA2018; (b) Prof. Guoxing SUN presentation conference; (c) Group photo of the Engineering section