针对长期、复杂环境荷载影响下道路土工结构(包括路基及路堑)的服役性能及灾变理论这一核心课题,系统地开展了大量试验与理论研究,致力于揭示和预测道路土工结构中的普通土和特殊土(包括膨胀土、冻土、黄泛区粉土等)的结构-水力-力学特性在动、静荷载以及温度、湿度循环等复杂环境荷载等多因素共同作用下的演化规律,藉此实现对道路土工结构的服役性能及寿命的合理预测和评判,发展复杂环境荷载作用下路基及路堑结构的灾害防治理论及方法。
Zhong Han obtained his BSc and MSc degrees in Geotechnical Engineering from Zhengzhou University, China in 2009 and 2012, respectively, and his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada in 2016. He is currently affiliated as Associate Professor at the School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University, China, and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include (i) the elastoplastic responses of unsaturated soils upon static, dynamic, and hydraulic loadings; (ii) behaviors of pavement soils (aggregates and subgrade soils) and pavement structure under the influences of external environment (drying-wetting-freeze-thaw actions); and (iii) volumetric and mechanical behaviors expansive soils and associated mitigation approaches. He has authored more than 60 journal publications in either Chinese or English on these research topics and has participated in several research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Key Research & Development Program of China, and MTO, NSERC, NRC in Canada.