On July 9, 2020, the “Innovation Base of Earthquake Engineering Comprehensive Simulation” held a “Cloud Report”, and invited Dr. Liang Cui, a Senior Lecturer at University of Surrey and a Chartered Member of Institution of Civil Engineer (ICE), to present a report named “Predicting long term performance of offshore wind turbine foundation using experimental tests and DEM simulations”.
Associate Prof. Jie Xu from the School of Civil Engineering hosted the report. Prof. Mingjing Jiang, Vice dean of School of Civil Engineering, delivered a welcome speech.
By way of an online classroom, Dr. Liang Cui gave a short review of main results obtained in her team. First, she presented the experimental work of small-scale physical modelling and DEM modelling of the interactions between a monopile and the surrounding soil. Next, she showed the local soil behaviour adjacent to monopile under cyclic loading by a series of cyclic simple shear tests.
The audience at the meeting learnt about both experiments and DEM simulations. After the report, Dr. Liang Cui and the audience conducted an online discussion on related issues.
A total of 229 teachers and students participated this “Cloud Report”, including 14 teachers, 151 graduate students, 16 international students and 48 undergraduate students. The audience were from Tianjin University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Dalian University of Technology, etc.
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Fig.1. Online group photo of some participating teachers and students |
Introduction to Dr Liang Cui:
Dr Liang Cui is a Senior Lecturer at University of Surrey. She obtained her PhD degree from University College Dublin in 2006 and BE degree from Tsinghua University in 2002. She became a Chartered Member of Institution of Civil Engineer (ICE) in 2018. Her main research expertise is developing Discrete Element Method (DEM) for modelling granular materials. She has endeavored to develop DEM codes to analyze the micromechanics in the geotechnical element tests and a wide range of and geotechnical applications, including DEM modelling of direct shear test, triaxial test and simple shear test; the complex soil-structure interactions for offshore wind farms; locomotion of the off-road vehicles in the terrestrial and extra-terrestrial environments, etc. She has published over 30 journal papers in international journals and 2 book chapters and has gain over 1000 citations. She served on the editorial board of ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering in 2010-2017.
(Corresponding：Dazhi Dang)
