Yang Wenbo

YANG WenBo

  Professor 

  Doctoral supervisor

  School of  Civil Engineering

  Direction of underground engineering

  Email: yangwenbo1179@hotmail.com

  Office:Room 408, tunnel building, jiuli Campus, SWJTU

BIO

 Education

     PhD, University of Nottingham, civil engineering (2011)

     M.A., University of Nottingham, civil engineering (2007)

     B.E., Sichuan University, Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering (2006)

 Employment

     Director of Sichuan Rock Mechanics and Engineering Society

     Deputy Secretary general of Sichuan Society of Rock Mechanics and Engineering

     Director assistant of key Laboratory of Transportation Tunnel Engineering of Ministry of Education  

     Member of international Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering

     Member of international Society of Rock Mechanics and Engineering

     Member of China Civil Engineering Society

     Member of Chinese Society of Rock Mechanics and Engineering

RESEARCH INTERESTS

     1.Safety marking system of large scale tunnel group structure.

     2.Dynamic response characteristics of tunnel structures under vehicle-induced vibration loads.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Principal publications:

1.Ziquan Chen, Chuan He, Wenbo Yang*, Wenqi Guo, Zheng Li, Guowen Xu. Impacts of geological conditions on instability causes and mechanical behavior of large-scale tunnels: a case study from the Sichuan-Tibet highway, China[J], Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2020. 04. 

2.Pinqiang Mo, Xinwei Gao, Wenbo Yang*, Haisui Yu. A cavity expansion-based solution for interpretation of CPTu data in soils under partially drained conditions[J], International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 2020. 05, 44(07): 1053-1076.

3.Wenbo Yang, Chengping Zhang, Dexiong Liu, Jiulin Tu, Qixiang Yan*, Yong Fang, Chuan He. The effect of cross-sectional shape on the dynamic response of tunnels under train induced vibration loads[J]. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 2019. 08, Vol 90:231-238. 

4.Wenbo Yang, Yingchao Shang, Dexiong Liu, Tao Zou, Qixiang Yan*, Yong Fang, Chuan He. An experimental study of the isolation performance of trenches on ground-borne vibration from underground tunnels[J], Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, 2019, Accepted. 

5.Wenbo Yang, Lingui Li, Yingchao Shang,  Qixiang Yan*, Yong Fang, Chuan He,  Zhaoyang xu. An experimental study of the dynamic response of shield tunnels under long-term train loads[J], Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 2018. 09, Vol 79:67-75. 

6.Wenbo Yang, Ge Cui,  Zhaoyang Xu, Qixiang Yan*, Chuan He, Yanyang Zhang. An experimental study of ground-borne vibration from shield tunnels[J],Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 2018. 01, Vol 71:244-252. 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

     Editorial Board Member, Tunnel Construction.

     Editorial Board Member, Hazard Control in Tunnelling and Underground Engineering.

     Journal Reviewer, TUNNELLING AND UNDERGROUND SPACE TECHNOLOGY.

     Journal Reviewer, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment

     Journal Reviewer, China Journal of Highway and Transport.

RESEARCH

 Current Research

     Research project title 1: Initial crack propagation and damage evolution of shield tunnel segment caused by vehicle-induced vibration.  

     Research project title 2: Dynamic hazard identification of major transportation infrastructure and comprehensive transportation system.  

     Research project title 3: Life cycle structural health Monitoring and intelligent system of Sichuan Tibetan Expressway Tunnel Group.

 Research Group

     Professor Yang's research team consists of 12 postgraduate students and 2 PhD students. 

TEACHING

 Current Courses

     Course title 1: Academic communication and expression.

     Course title 2: Expressway tunnel.

     Course title 3: Submerged tunnel.

     Course title 4: Multi-field coupling theory and analysis of engineering structures.

GRADUATE SUPERVISION

     I am available for supervision. Over the past eight years, I have supervised and graduated eight Master Degree Candidates.