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

Renewable energy structures

Externally Funded Research Projects as PI

PI: Pre- and post-failure behaviour of unsaturated vegetated slopes: advanced experimental and numerical investigations incorporating rooted soil anisotropy, funded by the General Research Fund (GRF) of Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC). 

PI: Long-term performance of energy tunnels subjected to heating-cooling cycles: centrifuge and numerical modelling, funded by the General Research Fund (GRF) of Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC). 

PI: Turning incinerated sewage sludge ash into engineering fill using microbial-induced calcium carbonate precipitation method incorporating CO2 sequestration, funded by the Environment and Ecology Bureau. 

PI: Recycling construction waste in highway embankments towards sustainable development of city clusters: geotechnical assessment considering multi-physics coupling effects, funded by the NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme. 

PI: Long-term thermo-mechanical behaviour of energy tunnel in saturated and unsaturated soils, funded by the PROCORE-France/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme. 

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).

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