Keynote Speakers
Prof. Zhiqiang Zhang
School of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, China
Zhiqiang Zhang, born in June 1969, is a professor and Ph.D. supervisor. He serves as Deputy Director of the Department of Construction Engineering of Southeast University, Deputy Dean of the Civil and Municipal Design Institute of Southeast University, Deputy Director of the Earthquake Resistance and Mitigation Center of Construction Engineering, Director of the Jiangsu Earthquake Engineering Society, and Member of the Seismic Isolation and Mitigation Work Department of China Survey and Design Association. Prof. Zhang's research focuses are structural dynamics, vibration control and structural seismic design and analysis, seismic resistance and reduction (isolation) of existing buildings, comfort control of large-span and high-flexible structures, and structural health monitoring of buildings.
Prof. Zhang has published more than 30 papers and one monograph in domestic core journals and international conferences. He is a reviewer of Journal of Structural Engineering, Journal of Building Structures, Journal of Vibration and Shock, Journal of Vibration Engineering, Journal of Tongji University, Building Structure and Industrial Architecture.
He has chaired one general project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, one sub-project of the Science and Technology Support Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, one project of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Science and Technology, two projects of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Construction, and participated in more than ten projects of National Natural Science Foundation and the Provincial Department of Science and Technology.
Prof. Zhang has won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of the Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Progress Award, the first and second prizes of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Education, the special prize of China Railway Construction Corporation, the second prize of National Excellent Engineering Survey and Design Industry Construction Engineering Standard Design Award, and second prize of Excellent Engineering Survey and Design Architectural Structure Design of the Ministry of Education. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the local standard of Jiangsu Provincial Existing Building Structure Energy Dissipation and Seismic Reinforcement Regulations (DB32/T 3752-2020) and participated in the compilation of the first domestic construction industry standard Building Energy Dissipation Dampers (JG/T 209-2007) ), the first domestic atlas of energy dissipation and vibration reduction structure Atlas of Energy Dissipation and Vibration Reduction of Building Structures and the first domestic floor comfort standard Technical Standards for Vibration Comfort of Building Floor Structures (JGJ/T 441-2019).
Speech Title: High-performance viscous fluid damper series development and experimental research
Prof. Bingxiang Yuan
Guangdong University of Technology
Bingxiang Yuan, male, is a doctor (post), professor, and “Youth 100 A” of the Guangdong University of Technology. He works as a letter evaluation expert for the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, Shaanxi Province, and Zhejiang Province; a member of the Academic Committee of Pile Foundation of China Civil Engineering Society; a director of the Red Layer Engineering Branch of the Chinese Society of Rock Mechanics and Engineering; a member of the Professional Committee of Soil Ontogeny and Strength Theory of the Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Branch of China Civil Engineering Society; a deputy director of the Youth Committee of the Guangdong Society of Geotechnical Mechanics and Engineering; an editorial board member of the SCI journal, Advances in Civil Engineering.
Speech Title: Study on Displacement Field Around Horizontally Loaded Pile Based on PIV Technology
Prof. Rongtao Yan
Guilin university of technology
Rongtao Yan, a Professor, graduated from the Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences with a Ph.D. degree in geotechnical engineering in 2012 and received the 2013 Hubei Province Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. He is mainly engaged in the research of chemical-mechanical coupling theory, engineering properties, and mechanical behavior of geotechnical media in the field of energy and environment. He has presided over 5 provincial and ministerial projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Guangxi Natural Science Foundation of China. He published more than 40 academic papers in core journals at home and abroad, more than 30 of which have been indexed by SCI&EI, and he authorized 5 invention patents. He has made important research results in phase transformation behavior of natural gas hydrate-bearing sediments under mining disturbance, mechanical strength weakening mechanism, the ontological theory considering chemical-mechanical coupling, and engineering mechanics of clayey soil under chemical erosion, and has won one second prize of Guangxi Science and Technology Progress.
Speech Title: Mechanical Properties and Constitutive Simulation of Methane Hydrate-containing Soil under Different Temperature-Pressure Conditions
Assoc. Prof. Yu Zhang
China University of Petroleum（East China）
Yu Zhang has developed a multi-field coupling full automatic servo tester for rock and soil media and a low permeability rock permeability testing device based on liquid media; He participated in the major projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China; He has presided over the general programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Youth Foundation, the general programs of the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, the Youth Foundation, and the Applied Basic Research of Qingdao; He has created high-quality scientific research achievements. Besides, he published 25 high-level papers in SCI and EI journals as the first author and one of his articles was selected as the lead of top academic paper of 5000-Chinese top quality scientific journals; He also authorized 5 invention patents as the first inventor and registered 1 computer software copyright; He participated in academic exchange conferences at home and abroad and made two thematic reports, which solved some difficult and hot-spot issues in deep oil and gas rock mechanics and engineering. He also won one First Prize (4/15) for Scientific and Technological Progress in Qingdao, two Third Prizes (3/6 and 4/6) for Scientific and Technological Progress in Shandong Province, and one Second Prize (7/10) for Scientific and Technological Progress in China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation; He was rated as "Qingdao West Coast New Area Top Level Shortage Talent (Smart Island Plan)" by the West Coast New Area, and was awarded the nomination award for Outstanding Young Scientific and Technological Talents in the field of mining, petroleum and safety engineering in Chinese universities.
Speech Title: Genetic programming modeling for field-monitored soil suction under effects of vegetation and atmosphere
Assoc. Prof. Yonghong Wang
Qingdao University of Technology
Yonghong Wang, Doctor, is currently working as Associate Professor in Qingdao University of Technology. He is the director of Qingdao Marine Wind Power Safety Assessment and Smart Diagnosis Engineering Technology Collaborative Innovation Center, the deputy director of Qingdao Smart City Green Geotechnical Engineering Research Center, and the deputy director of Qingdao Marine Dynamic Environment Simulation Test Platform Technology Innovation Center. He is mainly engaged in research on foundation pit engineering, pile foundation engineering, geotechnical testing technology, soil mechanical properties, etc. He presided over 3 national, provincial and ministerial projects, published more than 60 academic papers in high-level journals at home and abroad, and 30 of them were included in SCI&EI. He also authorized 11 invention patents in the United States and China. He has made important research achievements in the new method of pile foundation optimization design, key technologies of life-cycle integrated accurate monitoring and safety assessment, deep and large foundation pit excavation response and stability control, and deep and large foundation pit dynamic instability intelligent monitoring information system, and won one Third Prize of Shandong Science and Technology Progress Award and one Second Prize of Qingdao Science and Technology Progress Award.
Speech Title: Key Technologies for Safety Monitoring, Evaluation and Prevention of High Performance Pipe Piles
Prof. Zehra Canan Girgin
Yildiz Techincal University, Istanbul, Turkiye
Speech Title: Short and long term flexural characteristics of basalt fibre cementitious composites