Prof. Zongjin LI
Macau University of Science and Technology, China
Dr Zongjin LI is Chair professor at Macau
University of Science and Technology. He received
his B.E. from Zhejiang University in 1982 and
obtained both his M.S. and PhD from Northwestern
University, Chicago, in 1990 and 1993, respectively.
He is a fellow of American Concrete Institute, Chair
of China Group of RILEM and Founding President of
ACI China Chapter. As the chief scientist, he has
led a China Key National Basic Research Project
(973), ‘Basic study on environmentally friendly
contemporary concrete’ that promoted the concrete
research in China to a world-class level. He also
founded the Gordon Research Conference, ‘‘Advanced
Materials for Sustainable Infrastructure
Development’ in 2014.
He is pioneer in noncontact resistivity/impedance
measurement for cement-based materials and lead the
research activities in this area for about 20 years.
He also developed cement-based piezoelectric and
opened a new direction for civil engineering. The
methodology he developed to utilizing the in-situ
polymerization of monomer during cement hydration
process has shown a strong effect in enhancing
flexural strength of cement-based composite. He has
published 5 technical books, in which ‘Advanced
Concrete Technology’ published by John Wiley has
been collected by many national libraries and major
university libraries and used by many universities
as text or reference books for civil engineering. He
has also published more than 400 technical papers
with a Google Scholar citation of 24958 and H-index
of 86. He has also been awarded eight US and twenty
Chinese patents. Three of his patents have been
developed into commercial products.
He received the Arthur R. Anderson Medal from
American Concrete Institute in 2017 and
Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Award from British
Royal Academy of Engineering in 2014.
Speech title"Integrated design from materials to structures in civil engineering"
Abstract: Design is a goal-oriented
planning activity for creating products, processes,
and systems with desired functions through
specifications. It is a decision-making exploration
and its outcome may vary greatly depending on the
designer's knowledge and philosophy. Integrated
design is one type of design philosophy that takes
an interdisciplinary and holistic approach. In civil
engineering, structural design is such an activity
for creating buildings and infrastructures.
Recently, structural design in many countries has
emphasized a performance-based philosophy that
considers the safety, durability, serviceability,
and sustainability of a structure simultaneously.
Currently, integrated design in civil engineering
has become more popular, useful and important.
Integrated design from materials to structures
(IDMS) combine the materials and structural
engineering in the design stage and fully utilizes
the favorable properties of materials by selecting
the most suitable structural forms. This lecture
will explore real-world examples of IDMS, including
the realization of IDMS in timber seismic-resistant
structures, masonry arch structures, long-span steel
bridges, prefabricated/on-site extruded light-weight
steel structures, fiber-reinforced cementitious
composites structures, and fiber-reinforced polymer
bridge decks. Additionally, advanced material design
methods such as bioinspired design and structure
construction technology of additive manufacturing
are briefly reviewed and discussed, to demonstrate
how IDMS can combine materials and structures. A
unified strength-durability design theory is also
introduced, which is a human-centric,
interdisciplinary, and holistic approach to the
description and development of any civil
infrastructures and includes all processes that are
directly involved in the life cycle of the
infrastructure.
Prof. Lisa Y. Wang
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA
Dr. Lisa Wang is a professor
of Structural and Earthquake Engineering, Civil
Engineering Department at California State
Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona).
She received her Ph.D. in Structural Earthquake
Engineering from the University of California,
Irvine (UCI). Her M.S. was in Geotechnical
Earthquake Engineering and B.S. degree in Civil and
Architectural Engineering. Prior to joining Cal Poly
Pomona, her professional experience included
Structural Engineering Consulting Services, seismic
analysis and design of bridges, liquid storage
tanks, and building structures.
During her tenure at Cal Poly Pomona, Prof. Wang was
successful in securing a National Science Foundation
(NSF) grant, as the PI of the awarded project
“Acquisition of Seismic Simulating System for
Integrated Research and Education in Structural
Engineering”, through Major Research Instrumentation
Program (MRI) of NSF. She was also a Co-PI on a DoD
grant (Department of Defense, Army Research Office)
titled “Laser Scanning for Engineering Modeling,
Visualization, and Animation.”
Prof. Wang’s research interests include: 1) Seismic
response of special moment frame buildings under
near and far field ground motions; 2)
Liquid-Structure Interaction; and 3) Nonlinear
seismic response of high-rise buildings and
large-span bridges.
Prof. Wang also actively participated in the
ASCE/SEI technical committees throughout the years.
She served on ASCE/SEI Seismic Effects Committee,
Emerging Analysis Methods in Earthquake Engineering
Subcommittee, as well as the ASCE/SEI Optimal
Structural Design Committee.
Speech title "Earthquake Resistant Buildings: Seismic Safety and Compliance "
My talk will be addressing the
following aspects of earthquake risk reduction in
buildings and aged infrastructure
▪Overview of recent Turkey
earthquake in terms of fatalities, economic loss,
seismic design code compliance, as well as the
construction quality.
▪Identifying and
strengthening seismic deficient structures
▪Earthquake protection of
buildings and bridges effectively through
application of base isolation and supplemental
damping systems
▪Near-source ground motion
and its effects on flexible buildings
▪Prevention of earthquake
induced liquefaction and landslide
▪Incorporation of
soil-structure interaction into seismic analysis to
accurately capture the dynamics of underlying soil
and the whole building system
▪Nonlinear analysis in
modern earthquake engineering practice: Accurate
assessment of nonlinear seismic response with 3-D
nonlinear pushover analysis, or nonlinear response
history analysis, as recommended in a new appendix
of ACI 318-19 Concrete Building Code on Seismic
Design Verification using Nonlinear Response History
Analysis."