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Featured projects and achievements

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Two major intertwined questions of elastic limit tensile stress of UHPFRC **

Tensile fatigue of UHPFRC materials and structures

Ductile design and optimization of prestressed UHPFRC beams

Steel-UHPFRC lightweight composite decks (LWCD) for suspension bridges

Seismic-resistant UHPFRC materials and structures (ongoing)

Research skills

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Experimental experience

Proficient in advanced measurement techniques including magnetoscopy, acoustic emission, fiber-optic sensing, digital image correlation, and displacement transducers. Experienced in conducting high-quality uniaxial tension tests, large-scale reinforced concrete beam tests, and in-situ testing of long-span suspension bridges.

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Numerical and analytical experience

Conducted local analysis of composite suspension bridge segments using ANSYS, and global structural analysis using MIDAS and MATLAB; Developed elastic limit tensile stress model for UHPFRC, fatigue design models for UHPFRC and reinforced UHPFRC.

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