Research Interests

• Fundamental thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils and soil-structure interfaces, such as small strain stiffness, cyclic behaviour, thermal and suction effects

• Constitutive modelling of soils and interfaces

• Climate change adaptation of slopes and pavements

• Energy structures

 

Externally Funded Research Projects

• PI: Anisotropic hydro-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated and structured loess, funded by the General Research Fund (GRF) of Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC).   

• PI: Unsaturated soils and problematic soils, funded by the Excellent Young Scientists Fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 優秀青年科學基金(港澳). 

• PI: Three-dimensional thermo-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils and interfaces with reference to energy piles, funded by the General Research Fund (GRF) of Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC).   

• PI: Dissociation-induced deformation and instability of methane hydrate-bearing soils with various micro-structures, funded by the General Research Fund (GRF) of Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC).

• PI: Hydro-mechanical behaviour of fine-grained soil contaminated by liquid hydrocarbon, funded by the General Research Fund (GRF) of Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC).

• PI: Anisotropic stiffness of unsaturated soil under cyclic thermo-hydro-mechanical loads with principal stress rotations, funded by the General Research Fund (GRF) of Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC).

• PI: Cyclic thermo-mechanical behaviour of clay and sand with reference to energy piles, funded by the General Research Fund (GRF) of Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC).

• PI: Experimental study and constitutive modelling of monotonic and cyclic behaviour of unsaturated loess at different temperatures, funded by the Young Scientists Fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

• Co-I: Centrifuge modelling of the fatigue behaviour of an SCR in the touchdown zone under combined three-dimensional motions, funded by the General Research Fund (GRF) of Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC). 

• Co-I: Center for slope safety, funded by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme of Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC).

• Co-I: Performance of unsaturated earthen embankments subject to climate change: centrifuge and numerical modelling, funded by the General Research Fund (GRF) of Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC).

• Co-I: Performance of floating energy piled foundations in clay subjected to thermal cycles: three-dimensional centrifuge and numerical modelling, funded by the General Research Fund (GRF) of Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC).

• Co-I: Investigation and development of vegetated landfill cover using construction waste, funded by the General Programme of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).