Liyan Xu, associate professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University.
Dr. Xu received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from Tsinghua University in 2017. He is currently an associate professor and the deputy head of Civil Engineering Department, Beihang University. Also, he is committee member of Wind Power Structure Branch of China Steel Structure Association and associate member of American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE).
Dr. Xu's research interests include steel-concrete composite structures, seismic resistance and disaster mitigation for civil engineering and intelligent analysis method for engineering structures.
He presides over 10 government sponsored research projects, including the general project sponsored by NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China), the sub-project sponsored by National Key Research and Development Program of China, the special grant sponsored by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation and so forth. He has published over 30 academic journal papers, including 20 SCI retrieval international journal papers (quartiles in category Q1 or Q2), and participated in the compilation of one work and one specification. His achievements have been directly applied to more than 10 practical projects, including the Qingdao Mixc Mall, Nanning Long-Guang Century Building, Shenzhen Metro Songgang depot, Qingdao airport Expressway overpass bridge and others.
He was awarded the First Prize among the National Science and Technology Progress Awards in 2020 (Ranked 6th in 10), First Prize among the National Science and Technology Progress Awards in 2018 (Innovative Team, Ranked 13th in 14), Special Prize among Science and Technology Award of China Steel Structure Association in 2019 (Ranked 4th in 20), Liu Huixian Earthquake Engineering Award granted by the US-China Earthquake Engineering Foundation in 2017, Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow of Tsinghua University in 2019 and Excellent Ph.D. Graduate of Beijing in 2017. He was elected in the youth talent support program of Beihang University in 2021, and the youth talent promotion program of China highway and transportation society in 2022.
contact information: xuliyan@buaa.edu.cn
| EXPERIENCE
2020.02-present Beihang University, School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Associate Professor
2017.07-2020.01 Tsinghua University, Department of Civil Engineering, Postdoctor Researcher
| EDUCATION
2012.09-2017.07 Tsinghua University, Department of Civil Engineering, Doctor's Degree
2016.02-2016.05 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Visiting scholar
2008.09-2012.06 Central South University，Department of Civil Engineering, Bachelor's Degree
| RESEARCH FUNDING
General Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC): Research on the seismic behavior of the composite frame structure, $86,000, 2022.01-2025.12, PI.
General Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC): Research on the seismic behavior of the composite frame structure, $89,000, 2019.01-2022.12, PI.
Sub Project of the National Key Research and Development Program of China (MOST): Research on nonlinear behavior of frame slab for industrial buildings, $150,000, 2018.07-2021.06, PI.
Key project of the Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education: Research on seismic performance and Optimization design method of irregular structural system, $74,000, 2020.01-2022.12, PI.
Special funding project from China Postdoctoral Science Foundation: Research on the seismic behavior of the composite structure system of single-column elevated station. $22,000, 2018.08-2019.12, PI.
General Financial Grant from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation: Research on mechanical behavior and theoretical model of low-yield-point steel shear panel dampers, $12,000, 2017.12-2019.12, PI.
| AWARDS & HONORS
● Academic Awards
2020, State Science and Technology Progress Innovation Team Award issued by the State Council of the People's Republic of China, Second Prize, Ranking 6.
2018, State Science and Technology Progress Innovation Team Award issued by the State Council of the People's Republic of China, First Prize, Ranking 13.
2019, Science and Technology Award of China Steel Structure Association, Outstanding Award, Ranking 4.
2017, Outstanding Paper Award of the 26th National Structural Engineering Conference issued by the Committee of structural Engineering and the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, First Prize.
● Honors
2022, Youth Talent Promotion Program of China Highway and Transportation Society.
2021, Youth Top Talent Support Program of Beihang University.
2019, Top 10 Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Award of Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University.
2017, LIU Huixian Earthquake Engineering Scholarship Award, The US-China Earthquake Engineering Foundation.
2017, Talent Postdoctoral Supporting Fund, Tsinghua University.
2017, Outstanding Ph.D. Graduates of Beijing, Beijing Municipal Commission of Education.
2017, Academic Rising Star Award of Civil Engineering Department, Tsinghua University.
2016, National Scholarship for Ph.D Students, Ministry of Education of the P.R. China.
2015, Visiting Scholar Fund for Ph.D Students, Tsinghua University.
2012, Outstanding Graduate of Hunan Province, Provincial Education Department of Hunan.
2011, Outstanding Student Party Member of Hunan Province, Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.
| SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
Committee Member, Wind Power Structure Branch of China Steel Structure Association.
Committee Member, Engineering Diagnosis Renovation and Operation Branch of China Architectural Society.
Associate Members, The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Editorial Board Youth Member, Earthquake Engineering and Resilience.
| SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Yang Y, Wu B, Xu LY*, Yao YP, Zhang D, Zhao C. Experimental study on the buckling behavior of double steel plate concrete composite slabs with stiffening ribs and tie plates. Engineering Structures, 2022, 255: 113895.
Zhu YJ, Yang Y, Wang JJ, Xu LY*. Novel design method for reinforced concrete decks in composite girders considering compressive membrane action. Engineering Structures. 2021, 229: 111558.
Xu LY, Fan JS, Yang Y*, Tao MX, Tan ZY. An improved elasto-plastic constitutive model for the exquisite description of stress-strain hysteresis loops with cyclic hardening and softening effects. Mechanics of Materials. 2020, 150: 103590.
Wang C, Xu LY#, Fan JS*. A general deep learning framework for history-dependent response prediction based on UA-Seq2Seq model. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 2020, 372: 113357.
Xu LY, Tao MX, Nie X*, Fan JS, Taciroglu E. Modeling techniques for strain-range-dependent hardening behavior of low-yield-point steel shear panel dampers. ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, 2017, 143(12), 04017172.
Xu LY, Nie X, Zhou M*, Tao MX. Whole-process crack width prediction of reinforced concrete structures considering bonding deterioration. Engineering Structures, 2017, 142: 240-254.
Xu LY, Nie X, Fan JS*. Cyclic behaviour of low-yield-point steel shear panel dampers. Engineering Structures, 2016, 126: 391-404.
Xu LY, Nie X, Fan JS*, Tao MX, Ding R. Cyclic hardening and softening behavior of the low yield point steel BLY160: Experimental response and constitutive modeling. International Journal of Plasticity, 2016, 78: 44-63.
| HOMEPAGES
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Liyan_Xu6
Scopus Author ID: 56703801000