Department of Civil Engineering

Structural engineering, mechanics and computation

We investigate the performance of different structures and construction materials and develop solutions for smart, resilient, and sustainable civil engineering structures.

As a multidisciplinary group of research teams, we holistically tackle today’s challenges (e.g., sustainable development) that are connected to our built environment by contributing our expertise in theoretical and applied research to innovative solutions, based on analytical, experimental, and computational methods. Research teams in this focus area collaborate nationally and internationally with academic, industrial, and other societal partners.

Experimental study on shear mechanism of a new TU-type connector at HSS-UHPC interface

Yangqing Liu, Yibo Zhao, Haiyan Yang, Xiaoqing Xu, Weiwei Lin, Xiaoqing Du, Yuqing Liu 2025 Engineering Structures

Fatigue behavior of square steel strut-to-gusset plate welded connections under eccentric compression : Full-scale and reduced-scale tests

Xiaoqing Xu, Hongfa Luo, Bin Wang, Yuqing Liu, Kaixiang Miao, Rui Hao, Weiwei Lin, Yuwen Zhou, Dongyang He, Md Asadujjaman 2025 Engineering Structures

Behavior of stressed skin corrugated sheet under hydrostatic loads

Mohamed Y. Abd El-Latif, Mostafa Yossef, An Chen, Mohamed Elsayad 2024 Case Studies in Construction Materials

Robustness evaluation of a twin I-girder bridge

P. Acharya, R. Hao, W. Lin 2024 Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Digitalization and Sustainability - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management, IABMAS 2024