Fields of Research

Civil geotechnical engineering
Geomechanics and resources geotechnical engineering
Petroleum and reservoir engineering

Research Objectives

Expanding knowledge in engineering
Stone, ceramics and clay materials
Mining and extraction of iron ores
Geothermal energy extraction
Oil shale and tar sands mining and extraction

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

Combined finite-discrete element modelling of rock fracture and fragmentation induced by contour blasting during tunnelling with high horizontal in-situ stress; International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences
Combined finite-discrete element modellings of rockbursts in tunnelling under high in-situ stresses; Computers and Geotechnics
Development of 2-D Hybrid FEM/DEM Method Code Using GPGPU; 10th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium
Development of a 3D hybrid finite-discrete element simulator based on GPGPU-parallelized computation for modelling rock fracturing under quasi-static and dynamic loading conditions; Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering
Development of a GPGPU‐parallelized hybrid finite-discrete element method for modeling rock fracture; International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
Experimental and numerical studies on failure behaviours of sandstones subject to freeze-thaw cycles; Transportation Geotechnics
FDEM simulation of rock damage evolution induced by contour blasting in the bench of tunnel at deep depth; Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology
GPGPU-based 3-D hybrid FEM/DEM for numerical modelling of various rock testing methods; 12th Australia and New Zealand Young Geotechnical Professionals Conference
GPGPU-parallelised hybrid finite-discrete element modelling of rock chipping and fragmentation process in mechanical cutting; Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
Modelling of dynamic rock fracture process using the finite-discrete element method with a novel and efficient contact activation scheme; International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences

Research Projects

GPGPU-parallelized FDEM modelling of geothermal outburst

Research Candidate Supervision