Hong-jian Liao

Biography

She is currently a Professor of the School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering in Xi’an Jiao Tong University. Prof. Liao once held the director of the Dept. of Civil engineering and the vice-dean of the school of Civil Engineering and Mechanics. She graduated with a B.Eng. degree in 1985 and was awarded a M. Eng. degree in 1987 from the Department of Civil Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology. She did researches as a visiting scholar and later studied for her doctor’s degree from 1991 to 1996 in Japan. She received a Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from the Department of Civil Engineering, Tokai University, Japan in 1996. From 1996 to 1998, she engaged in the postdoctoral research in Solid Mechanics in Xi’an Jiao Tong University. She had visited NTU in Singapore, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Nagoya Institute of Technology, the University of Tokushima and Kyoto University. Also, She has undertaken several projects with funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, funding from Shaanxi Province Government and funding from the Key Laboratory of Chinese Academy of Sciences. She has published more than 100 papers in academic journals and academic conferences at home and abroad. More than 80 of them are SCI and EI papers. In addition, she has written over 9 textbooks and monographs.

Research Interest

· Study on Strength and deformation behavior of geo-materials including constitutive relationship of soil and soft rock under static or dynamic loading. · The stability analysis of slopes including application of yield criterion and determination of strength index of normally consolidated soils and over consolidated soils. · Study on Environmental geo-technology and anti-seismic studies including theory and application of dynamic mechanical behavior of geo-materials under seismic loading and prevention of geological disasters during exploitation of underground space.