Author: Wei Zhang

Spring 2017 Awards

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  1. Dr. Zhang received 2016 ASCE Outstanding Reviewer Award for ASCE/ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering.
  2. Dr. Zhang was selected as a 2017 ASCE ExCEEd Fellow to participate in the 2017 ASCE ExCEEd Teaching workshop at Florida Gulf Coast University on June 18-23, 2017.
  3. Jeffery Weston received travel award from UConn Graduate School to participate 2017 ASCE Structural Congress.
  4. Jin Zhu received travel award from UConn Graduate School to participate 2017 Americas Conference on Wind Engineering.
  5. Hao Yuan recieved travel award from UConn Graudate School to participate 2016 International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials XI.
  6.  Team 12 Offshore/Coastal Project win the 2nd place in CE Senior Design team competition (Team Members: Avis Carrero, Christopher Luongo, Audrey Turcotte, Georgina Talbot).

Congratulations!

Spring 2017 Conferences

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This semester, our group has participated the following conferences and made 9 presentations in the following conferences.

  1. 2017 AIAA conference;
  2. NASCC: the Steel Conference;
  3. 2017 ASCE Structural Congress;
  4. 2017 Americas Conference on Wind Engineering;
  5. 2017 ASCE EMI conference;

Details of the presentations and/or full papers and be found at publications.

Spring 2016: Awards, Papers, new members.

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  1. Jin Zhu’s poster was selected as one of the two posters to represent Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering forward to the SOE competition in 2nd Annual Graduate Poster competition. The poster was posted on Feb. 25th, 2016 at Student Union 304.
  2. Jin Zhu was selected to recieve GE Graduate Fellowship in the year of 2016.
  3. Jin Zhu was awarded with BBAA Travel Fellowship for the 8th International Colloquium on Bluff Body Aerodynamics and Applications, which was held in Northeaster University at Boston, Massachusetts, USA in June 7-11, 2016.
  4. Xuan Li and Di Wu joined our group for their Ph.D. and Master degree from Spring 2016.
  5. Dr. Huawei Niu from Hunan University joined our group in March 2016.
  6. Two papers are recently accepted in Engineering Structures, details are here.
  7. Dr. Zhang now is affiliated with UTC Institute for Advanced System Engineering. Dr. Zhang’s webpage in UTC-IASE is here.

New paper publications – 2015 Spring/Summer

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This year, we have three papers published or published on-line.

Please check below for details.

  • Yin, X.F., Liu, Y., Guo, S.H., Zhang, W., and Cai, C.S. (2015). “Three-dimenstional Vibration of a Suspension Bridge under Stochastic Traffic Flows and Road Roughness.”  International Journal for Structural Stability and Dynamics , Vol. 16(2016) 1550038. DOI: 10.1142/S0219455415500388.
  • Zhu, J., Zhang, W., Zheng, K.F., and Li, H.G. (2015). “Seismic Design of a Long Span Cable-Stayed Bridge with Fluid Viscous Dampers.” ASCE Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction, 10.1061/(ASCE)SC.1943-5576.0000262 , 04015006.
  • Zhang, W., Ge, Y.J., Cai, C. S. (2015). “Application of Snapshot POD Analysis in Extracting Flow Structures around Bridge Decks.” Advances in Structural Engineering, 18(6), 803-815. June 2015. Ad