Structural Safety and Ground Improvement on Bridge: Proceedings of 2024 8th International Conference on Civil Architecture and Structural Engineering

This book provides readers with the most advanced research on bridge engineering structures and high performance concrete applications in China.

Bridges as an important part of transportation facilities, its structural design and safety has been more concerned about the content. Especially in modern times, because of the needs of human travel and urban development, the structure of the bridge has also seen many innovations. However, there are consequent concerns about structural safety and stability in whole-life use.

China, as the country with the largest increase in bridge construction in recent years, has shown many famous bridge projects to the world. These include the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB), which spans Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, the Zhang Jinggao Yangtze River Bridge in Jiangsu province, a suspension bridge with a length of more than 2,000 meters, and the Beipanjiang Railway Cable-stayed Bridge, which has the highest vertical distance from the ground of 565 meters, to name a few.

In the face of complex terrain and geological conditions, Chinese bridge engineers have conducted many researches and applied to various engineering cases to finalize the construction of various bridge projects. Therefore, Chinese engineers and scholars have accumulated a lot of construction experience and research results. And we believe that these experiences and results are valuable and effective for the world bridge engineering field.

The book gathers selected papers in 2024 8th International Conference on Civil Architecture and Structural Engineering, focuses on structural safety and high-performance concrete in bridges. We hope to share with bridge engineers around the world the latest experiences in bridge construction and structural safety from China, as well as the research and exploration of the application of high-performance concrete in bridge stability.

Dr. Bingxiang Yuan, male, professor of Guangdong University of Technology, "Outstanding Youth of Guangdong Province", graduated from Lanzhou University. During his doctoral program, he was awarded the Scholarship by the Scholarship Council of the Ministry of Education of China to study at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University for two years, and he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) from 2012 to 2015. He presided over 3 National Natural Science Foundation of China (2 face projects + 1 youth fund), Outstanding Youth Fund of Guangdong Province, 2 China Postdoctoral Funds (Special Grant + First Class Grant), Guangdong Natural Science Foundation-Enterprise Joint Fund, Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation Face Project, State Key Laboratory Open Fund Project, Guangdong Provincial Department of Transportation Project, and other more than a dozen of national and provincial scientific research projects. He has published more than 70 papers, more than 30 SCI papers (5 top 1‰ hot papers, 10 top 1% highly cited papers), more than 20 EI papers, and 13 authorized national invention patents. He participated in the preparation of the book "Engineering Geology Route Selection of Qinghai-Tibet Railway". He won the Second Prize of Guangdong Provincial Scientific and Technological Progress (ranked first), the Outstanding Award of China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Achievement (first finisher), the First Prize of the National Teaching Innovation Competition for College Teachers, the First Prize of the Third National Lecture Competition for Young Teachers Specializing in Urban Underground Space, the Bronze Prize of the First National Post-doctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the Grand Prize of Guangdong Provincial College Teachers' Teaching Innovation Competition, the Science and Technology Prize of the China Commercial Federation Third Prize, First Prize of Land and Resources (Guangdong) Science and Technology Award, First Prize of Guangdong Geological Science and Technology Award, 2 First Prizes of Guangdong Geological Science and Technology Award, Second Prize of Guangdong Civil Engineering and Architecture Society; Guiding graduate students to win the Third Prize of Outstanding Graduate Student Academic Report of National Academic Conference on Piling, being awarded as Outstanding Class Teacher of Guangdong University of Technology, Outstanding Teaching Prize of Guangdong University of Technology, and Outstanding Graduate Student Supervisor of Guangdong University of Technology (2021-2023) 100% of graduate students received scholarships, 67% received first-class scholarships, and 2 received national scholarships).

Huseyin Bilgin is the Professor of Civil Engineering at Epoka University, Tirana Albania. He is actively taking part in teaching, research and the practice of structural and earthquake engineering, with emphasis on the response, analysis and design of reinforced concrete and masonry structures. He teaches the compulsory core courses Engineering Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials for second-year students and, he is the coordinator of the elective courses Introduction to Structural Dynamics, Supervised Independent Study and Research and Introduction to Earthquake Resistant Design in the 7th and 8th semesters of the area of structural engineering specialization. He also teaches the graduate courses Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. His main research interests are related to the response of structures to extreme loads focusing on the areas of structural and earthquake engineering with the emphasis on problems of non-linearity and performance evaluation of members, connections and structures. He has been involved in several research projects in these areas and has worked as an expert consultant on numerous engineering projects mostly made of reinforced concrete, but also of other structural materials. He has also participated in various national and international scientific activities related to structural and earthquake engineering.

Assoc. Prof. Qingzi Luo's research involves experimental and theoretical methods of soft soil foundation settlement and soft foundation treatment, and her major achievements have been published in the Sunset journals of Geotechnical Science, Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Geomechanics and Engineering, etc. She is also the chairperson of the National Natural Science Foundation Youth Project and the Guangdong Province Natural Science Foundation Doctoral Research Initiative Project, and she was awarded the National Prize of Doctoral Students in 2014 and the Second Prize of China Petroleum and Chemical Automation Industry Science and Technology Award in 2016. She was awarded the National Scholarship for Doctoral Students in 2014 and the Second Prize of China Petroleum and Chemical Automation Industry Science and Technology Award in 2016.

Zejun Han, male, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral), Associate Professor of "Youth Hundred Talents Program", Category A, Guangdong Industrial University, graduated from Tianjin University (undergraduate), graduated from Dalian University of Science and Technology (under the supervision of Dr. LIN Gao), joined South China University of Science and Technology in November 2014 for post-doctoral research, and was released from the university in March 2017 for teaching. In September 2019, he will go to Akron University in the United States for a one-year academic visit, and in November 2021, he will join Guangdong University of Technology. He has published more than 30 academic papers, 14 papers in SCI journals as first author/communicator, 9 theses, and 1 software authorization. In 2018, he received the First Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award from the Ministry of Education, and the South China University of Technology. In 2018, he was awarded the First Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award by the Ministry of Education of China, and is the Director of the Excellent Class of South China University of Technology.

Xueqiang Yang, Professor of Guangdong University of Technology, Professor Xueqiang Yang has carried out systematic and in-depth research in the areas of roadway stability, slope stability analysis, deep foundation support, retaining wall structural earth pressure, foundation bearing capacity, arch theory, vacuum pre-compression of soft ground, and the strength of rock and soil body constitutive relationship, etc. He has published more than one hundred and forty papers in domestic and international academic journals and conference proceedings, of which more than 30 papers have been indexed in the search of SCI, EI, ISTP and so on. Among them, more than 30 papers have been indexed by SCI, EI, ISTP and so on.