Associate Professor @Civil_Sydney@Sydney_Uni and Deputy Director @SydneyNano. Father of two girls. In English and Chinese. 搞科研/喜折腾/爱读书 Tweets are my own.
PhD Qingchen Liu's latest work on the dynamic responses of confined concrete, modelled using three material phases at the mesoscale. The paper has now been published in Engineering Fracture Mechanics, just a few days before his successful PhD defence. doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmec…
Sharing our latest work on gas trapping in porous media, with implications for underground CO₂ and hydrogen storage.
Led by PhD student Haiyi Zhong, with Zhongzheng Wang and Si Suo. The paper can be accessed via doi.org/10.1016/j.jgsce.2026…
In this paper (doi.org/10.1063/5.0229006), PhD student Yu Chen used a rotating drum and two-phase flow model to test granular rheological behaviour under submerged conditions. Jointly with @SsXjtu@DehengW Mingrui and Haiyi. Congrats to Yu on his first paper; more is on the way.
It was so great to catch up with our Sydney Nano ECR Ambassadors over lunch today!
Thank you to all of them for attending and supporting our activities ☺️
Today, I brought my whole #CIVL6456 Energy Geotechincs classroom from @CIVIL_Sydney to join a seminar on designing offshore windturbes at @EngAustralia. Great excursion and learning experience.
Finished my 4-week intensive teaching session on Statics. Great student participation for the return to campus mode.
Bonus question: Spot my teaching assistant.
Packing is critical to behaviors of a particle assembly. Adjustable properties can be realized by mixing particles of different sizes.
So to what extent can we control packing? Is it possible for a binary-sized packing to be looser than a mono-sized one?
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Sure, we are coming back to campus to teach, yet the university staff car parking spots will be reduced, addressing UN sustainability goals ... BTW, students are welcome to drive to campus, for accessibility.