On October 14, 2020, the “Innovation Base of Earthquake Engineering Comprehensive Simulation” held a “Cloud Report”, and invited Dr. Suiwen Wu and Dr. Xiaowei Wang to present reports on the topic of seismic Engineering. Dr. Suiwen Wu’s report name was ‘A Framework to Integrate Earthquake Hazards with Structural Risk’, while Dr. Xiaowei Wang’s report name was ‘Seismic Analysis and Post-Earthquake Assessment of Pile-Supported Bridges in Liquefiable Ground’.
Associate Prof. Jie Xu from the School of Civil Engineering hosted the report. Professor Qinghua Han, Secretary of the Party committee and President of the school of construction and engineering of Tianjin University, attended the lecture. Dr. Junsheng Su of School of Civil Engineering, who invited both of the speakers to present this report, delivered a welcome speech.
First, Dr. Suiwen Wu introduced the audience about the implementation of a massively parallel computational workflow for fault-to-structure simulations, especially the coupling of regional-scale geophysics models with local soil-structure models. The Domain Reduction Method was also mentioned in his report. Next, Dr. Xiaowei Wang’s report interpreted the key problems and provide preliminary solutions through multiple ways, such as developing efficient, high-fidelity multi-dimensional numerical models and identifying seismic failure mechanisms using shake-table tests. After the report, Dr. Suiwen Wu and Dr. Xiaowei Wang and the audience conducted an online discussion on related issues.
A total of 415 teachers and students participated this “Cloud Report”, including 19 teachers, 297 graduate students, 22 international students and 77 undergraduate students. The audiencewere from Tianjin University, Tongji University, Sichuan University, etc. After the report, Dr. Suiwen Wu and Dr. Xiaowei Wang took an online group photo with the audience.
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Fig.1. Online group photo of some participating teachers and students |
Introduction to Dr. Suiwen Wu: Matthew Coop:
Dr. Wu is a post-doctoral scholar in Department of CEE at UNR. He received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from UNR in December, 2016 under the supervision of Professor Ian Buckle. Dr. Wu’s research interests mainly focus on Earthquake and Structural Engineering with particular interest in advanced numerical simulations, large-scale pseudo-static and shake table experiments, structural resilience, seismic isolation, soil-structure interaction, accelerated bridge construction and seismic risk evaluation of structures at regional scale. He works as a principal worker in completing or currently participating in a couple of state-of-the-art projects funded by U.S. FHWA, LANL, LBNL, and DOE, for example, “Exascale Computing Project” (about $50 m), “Column Capital Test Project” ($1.3m, also work as Co-PI), “Shake Table Experiment on SSI of Nuclear Facilities using Large-Scale Laminar Soil Box” ($16 m) etc. Most of his research findings have been included in fifteen published and seven under-review peer-reviewed journal papers (JCR 1/2), and five published CCEER reports.
Introduction to Dr. Xiaowei Wang: Matthew Coop:
Dr. Wang is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He obtained the doctoral degree in 2018 from Department of Bridge Engineering, Tongji University. His main research area is Earthquake Engineering and Structural & Soil Dynamics (EESSD), currently with particular interests to (1) advancing the knowledge on the seismic design of bridges in complex geotechnical and environmental conditions, and (2) establishing inference engines and measures for lifetime structural resilience assessment and advancement. Both studies leverage advanced experimental, computational and statistical tools incorporating with data-driven learning techniques. Dr. Wang has authored over 30 technical papers in his research area, and serves as a frequent reviewer for various scientific journals including ASCE’s Journal of Bridge Engineering, and International Journal of Geomechanics, and Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Engineering Structures, Computers and Geotechnics, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, etc. He received the Outstanding Reviewer Recognition by ASCE in 2019.
(Corresponding：Xingzhi Huang)
