Professor
Supervisor of Master's Candidates
Supervisor of Doctorate Candidates
Shiguo XIAO
Full Professor
Professor for Geotechnical Aspect of Highway and Railway Engineering, Geomechanics and Engineering, Geohazards Prevention and Mitigation
National Registered Civil Engineer in Geotechnical Engineering
Email: xiaoshiguo@swjtu.edu.cn
Office: Room 1441, Building No. 1, Jiuli Campus
Link: https://faculty.swjtu.edu.cn/xiaoshiguo/zh_CN/index.htm
BIO
Education
Sep. 2000 - Jul. 2003 PhD degree in Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University
Sep. 1998 - Sep. 2000 Master degree in Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University
Sep. 1991 - Jul. 1995 Bachelor degree in Department of Civil Engineering, Shanghai Railway University
Employment
Academic Appointments
Jun. 2005 - Present Southwest Jiaotong University, successively as associate professor and full professor at the Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Department of Geological Engineering, and Department of Highway and Railway Engineering of School of Civil Engineering
Nov. 2014 - Oct. 2015 University of Wollongong, Australia, as a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Faculty of Engineering
Aug. 2003 - Jun. 2005 Tongji University, as a postdoctor at the Department of Geotechnical Engineering
Administrative Appointments
Assistant Dean, Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering (2013-2017)
Research Interests
Static and dynamic stability analysis methods of rock or soil mass in cut slopes, embankments, landslides, and tunnels
Calculation theory and design method of retaining structures including various types of stabilizing piles, anchorage structures, group of combined micropiles, and geosynthetic-reinforced soil retaining walls in geotechnical engineering
Applicable prevention technology of geo-hazards including landslides, debris flows, and rock collapses
Shallow and deep foundation engineering covering bearing capacity on or near slopes, composite foundation in soft soil , mechanical behaviours of deep pile foundation as well as pipeline engineering
New types of high embankment construction in the area of problematic soils such as soft clay and expansive clay and in the dangerous mountainous area with steep terrain
These research has been supported by five national funding, ten provincial funding and more than forty industrial projects.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Principal Publications of the Last Five Years
Shiguo Xiao*, Tingjun Chen. Discussion of lateral earth pressure in constrained landslides. Geotechnique, 2021, 71(1): 88–91.
Shiguo Xiao*, Wei Dong Guo, Jinxiu Zeng. Factor of safety of slope stability from deformation energy. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2018, 55(2): 296-302.
Tingjun Chen, Shiguo Xiao*. Unified upper bound solution for bearing capacity of shallow rigid strip foundations generally considering soil dilatancy. Soils and Foundations, 2020, 60(1):155-166.
Yuping Yan, Shiguo Xiao*. A calculation method for the embedded depth of stabilizing piles in reinforced slopes. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 2020, 44(7): 1077-1092.
Shiguo Xiao*, Pan Xia. Variational calculus method for passive earth pressure on rigid retaining walls with strip surcharge on backfills. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2020, 83: 526-551.
Shiguo Xiao. Improved limit analysis method of piled slopes considering the pile axial forces. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Geotechnical Engineering, 2021, 174(1): 75–82.
Shiguo Xiao*, Wei Dong Guo. Limit analysis of ground anchor forces. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Geotechnical Engineering, ICE, 2017, 170(GE2):175-185.
Lai Wang, Shiguo Xiao*. Calculation method for displacement-dependent earth pressure on a rigid wall rotating around its base. International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, Published Online, May 21, 2021.
Zhaoying Li, Shiguo Xiao*. Seismic stability analysis of two-stage slopes reinforced with one row of piles. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Published Online, 2021.
Shiguo Xiao. A simplified approach for stability analysis of slopes reinforced with one row of embedded stabilizing piles. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2017, 76(4):1371-1382.
Shiguo Xiao*, Jinxiu Zeng, Yuping Yan. A rational layout of double-row stabilizing piles for large-scale landslide control. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2017, 76(1):309-321.
Qiang Cheng, Shiguo Xiao*, Tianxiang Liu, Tingjun Chen, Shaohong Li, Anhui Wei. Twin tunneling–induced deep‑seated landslide in layered sedimentary rocks. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, Published Online, 2021.
Shiguo Xiao*, Tingjun Chen. Improved general slice method of limit equilibrium for slope-stability analyses. Acta Geotechnica Slovenica, 2021，1:55-64.
Tingjun Chen, Shiguo Xiao*. An Upper Bound Solution to Undrained Bearing Capacity of Rigid Strip Footings Near Slopes. International Journal of Civil Engineering, 2020,18(4): 475–485.
Jinxiu Zeng, Shiguo Xiao*. A simplified analytical method for stabilizing micropile groups in slope engineering. International Journal of Civil Engineering, 2020,18(2):199–214.
Shiguo Xiao*, Yuping Yan, Pan Xia. General solution for active earth pressure on rigid walls under strip surcharge on retained soils using variational method. International Journal of Civil Engineering, Jan., 2021, Published Online.
Shiguo Xiao*, Tingjun Chen, WeiDong Guo. Bearing capacity of rigid strip footings near soil slopes. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering and Computational Mechanics, ICE, Ahead of print, 2020.
Selected Awards and Honors
New Century Excellent Talents in University (2012)
Visiting Senior Fellow, The university of Wollongong, Australian (2014-2015)
Zhan Tianyou Railway Science and Technology Award (2016)
Excellent Scholar Award of Southwest Jiaotong University (2017)
Professional Activities
Member of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE)
Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Member of the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM)
Member of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG)
RESEARCH
Group
Prof. Xiao is leading an academic group named Geomechanics and Slope Engineering in Southwest Jiaotong University. Dr. YANG Hufeng and Dr. CHEN Tingjun are two fixed researchers of the group. There are some independently developed test equipment and apparatuses in the group such as large-scale model test box and direct shear apparatus with large shear area.
TEACHING
Primary Teaching areas
Civil Engineering
Highway and Railway Engineering
Current Courses
Foundation Engineering
Introduction to Environmental Engineering
Basic theories of earth-structures and hazard prevention engineering
GRADUATE SUPERVISION
I am available for supervision of PhD and Master. Over the past five years, I have supervised and graduated 4 PhDs and 26 Masters, who published more than 10 international top journal papers as the first author in the area of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering as well as Geological Engineering.
In the News
Aseismic design methods for retaining structures in high slope engineering
New types of retaining structures and their analysis approaches
Stability analysis of high slopes or landslides under complicated conditions
Analysis and design methods of some transportation infrastructures including railway subgrades and oil pipelines in mountainous areas
