Shengyang Yuan

YUAN Shengyang

Associate Professor

Key Laboratory of High-speed Railway Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Civil Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University

BIO

Education

ž   PhD, The University of Newcastle, Australia

ž   M.A., Southwest Jiaotong University, China

ž   B.S., Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Employment

Academic Appointments

ž   Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, China (2018-present)

ž   Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Civil Engineering,  The University of Newcastle, Australia (2017-2018)

 

Brief Introduction

Dr Yuan's research mainly focuses on the soil mechanical behavior of some special soils, including expansive clay, loess etc, and corresponding ground treatment in high-speed railway. In the last few years, Dr Yuan has charged or taken part in around 10 projects, including National Science Foundation of China, Australia Research Council, Science and Technology Program of Sichuan etc. He has published around 20 research journal papers (13 SCI and 7 EI) in journals including Geotechnique, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Soils and Foundations, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Principal Publications of the Last Five Years

1)      Yuan, S., Liu, X., Buzzi, O., 2021. A microstructural perspective on soil collapse. Géotechnique, 71(2), 132-140.

2)      Yuan, S., Buzzi, O., Liu, X.F., Vaunat, J., 2019. Swelling behaviour of compacted Maryland clay under different boundary conditions. Géotechnique 69(6), 514–525.

3)      Yuan, S., Liu, X.F., Buzzi, O., 2019. Effects of soil structure on the permeability of saturated Maryland clay. Géotechnique 69(1), 72–78.

4)      Yuan, S., Liu, X., Buzzi, O., 2021. Technical aspects on mercury intrusion porosimetry for clays. Environ. Geotech. 8(4), 255–263.

5)      Yuan, S., Liu, X., Buzzi, O. 2017. Calibration of a coupled model to predict the suction generated by the osmotic technique with PES membranes and temperature effect. Geotechnical Testing Journal, 40(1).

 

 

RESEARCH

Current Research

ž   The mechanical behaviour of a modified pile-plank subgrade for high-speed railways in expansive soil regions

ž   Investigation on the weakening and collapse mechanisms of soil arching in geosynthetic-reinforced and pile-supported embankment subjected to the swelling-shrinkage cyclic deformation of expansive soil foundation

 

Research Group

ž   I am a member of group that leads by Prof. Guanglu Jiang and Prof. Xianfeng Liu.

 

TEACHING

Primary Teaching areas

ž   Soil mechanics

ž   Subgrade Engineering

 

Current Courses

ž   Professional English for Road and Railway Engineering

ž   Subgrade Engineering

 

GRADUATE SUPERVISION

I am available for supervision. Over the past three years, I have supervised and graduated 7 masters.