Dr. Zili Li
Professor
Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Delft University of Technology
Netherlands
Biography
Prof. Zili Li obtained his BSc and MCs degrees in Mechanical Engineering at Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He obtained his PhD degree in Computational Mechanics on numerical solution of rolling contact at Delft University of Technology in 2002. He worked between 1999 and 2005 at TNO, the Dutch organization for applied sciences, on multibody dynamics and finite element methods, as well as their applications in crashworthiness. He joined the group of Railway Engineering in 2005. He chairs the group of Rail Systems & Monitoring.
Research Interest
Rail Systems & Monitoring
Publications
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Applicability of half-space-based methods to non-conforming elastic normal contact problems
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Wheel-Rail Impact at Crossings: Relating Dynamic Frictional Contact to Degradation
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Robust and predictive fuzzy key performance indicators for condition-based treatment of squats in railway infrastructures
