Prof. Yu Zhang
Northeastern University, China
Prof. Yu Zhang obtained Phd of Geotechncial Enginering at Hohai University in 2012 and PhD of Civil Engineering at University of Lille in 2014. Since 2017, he has served as a full-time associate professor and doctoral supervisor at China University of Petroleum (East China) His research fields cover energy geotechnical mechanics and engineering, deep rock mechanics and engineering, buried pipelines, wellbore stability of natural gas hydrate exploitation, etc. He patented 7 items. He has published 34 journal papers. He teaches soil mechanics and foundaitons for more than 10 years.
Title: Experimental and Numerical Investigations on Time-Dependent Behavior of Cataclastic Sandstone
Prof. Yukun Zhang
Shandong University of Science and Technology, China
Prof.Yukun Zhang works at Shandong University of Science and Technology. He serves as the deputy director of the Qingdao Marine Energy Equipment Disaster Prevention and Reduction Engineering Technology Center, a member of the Nearshore and Offshore Engineering Committee of the Seismological Society of China, and an expert in the expert database of the Shandong Rail Transit Society. Mainly engaged in teaching, research and social service work in marine energy geotechnical engineering and research and development of new structures of offshore energy equipment.
Title: Stratigraphic Deformation and Well Wall Stability During Natural Gas Hydrate Exploitation
Assoc. Prof. Yalin Luan
China University of Petroleum (East China), China
Assoc. Prof. Yalin Luan received her bachelor's degree in Port, Channel and Coastal Engineering from Tianjin University, master's degree from Imperial College London, and Doctor's degree from China University of Petroleum (East China). Her main research field is geotechnical mechanics and oil and gas engineering mechanics. As a major participant, she has participated in a number of National Nature Foundation projects and National Key Research and Development programs. She has published more than 10 academic papers in authoritative international journals and applied for 5 national invention patents and software Copyrights.
Title: Mechanistic Study of Supercritical Co2 Oil Drive Process Based on Molecular Dynamics Simulation
Assoc. Prof. Reyes Garcia
University of Warwick, UK
Reyes Garcia is associate professor in Structural Engineering at the University of Warwick (UK). He obtained his 5 year Degree in Civil Engineering (Graduated with Honours) from the University of Michoacan (Mexico), his MSc in Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology from the ROSE School (Italy) and University Joseph Fourier of Grenoble I (France), and his PhD from The University of Sheffield (UK).
Reyes has 20+ years of research/consultancy experience in the fields of structural and sustainable concretes, FRP composites for construction, and earthquake engineering. He has been heavily involved in management and coordination of multi-partner EU and Research Council-funded projects in excess of £10M. He has designed/coordinated large-scale shake table tests in large scale facilities in Europe (CEA Saclay, France; Iasi, Romania).
He has published more than 100 articles, papers and book chapters. He has contributed actively to the UK TG tasks for Eurocode 8-3, and he is a member of the fib TG 5.1 "FRP Reinforcement for Concrete Structures", and of COST Action TU1207 "Next Generation Guidelines for Composite Reinforcements". He regularly reviews research grant proposals for national/international research councils of Europe, Asia and Latin America, as well as manuscripts for more than 20 international journals.
He is Associate Editor of the ICE's journal Structures and Buildings. He has been member of committees, keynote speaker and chair in various international conferences in Latin America and Asia. He is also Visiting Professor at Walailak University, Thailand.
Title: Use of Recycled Aggregate Concrete in Structural Components: Some Recent Research