Congratulations to Mr Lanxin Luo, CEE PhD student supervised by Prof. Yong Xia, on receiving the “Outstanding Young Engineer Contribution Award” at the IABSE Symposium Tokyo 2025 on 18-21 May 2025. The symposium, organized by the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), themed Environmentally Friendly Technologies and Structures: Focusing on Sustainable Approaches.
Mr Luo's research, titled “Hybrid Physics Data-driven Modeling for Structural Nonlinear Boundary Condition Identification”, addresses the critical issue of blind boundary condition identification in nonlinear dynamics. The project introduces a finite element-neural network hybrid modeling approach, which integrates the finite element method for linear components with multilayer perceptrons to represent unknown nonlinear elements. The unknown boundary is identified from output-only data without any prior model information. This advancement improves the interpretability of physics-informed neural networks and provides a practical solution for the blind nonlinear identification of operational structures.
Kudos to Mr Luo for this remarkable achievement and we look forward to the positive impact his groundbreaking research will bring to our living environment.
