“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it,
bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Shenghan ZHANG
Assistant Professor of CIVL, HKUST
About
I am an Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Welcome to our Structural Sensing and Mechanics lab. We leverage monitoring data from advanced sensing technologies with physical models to achieve self-aware infrastructures and enhance the resilience of engineering systems.
Research Interests
- Structural Engineering
- Structural Health Monitoring
- Fiber Optic Sensing
- Structural Analysis.
Education
- Ph D – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
- M.E – Tongji University
- B.E – Chongqing University
Projects
Tile delamination detection on building façades using drone infrared thermography
Strain Transfer Mechanism of Fiber Optic Sensors
Intelligent Building Monitoring with Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing
Openings
Join the Team
Postgraduate student positions (PhD or MPhil) and postdoctoral researcher positions are available.
If you are interested, please send an email to ceshenghan@ust.hk with your CV and a brief summary of your research interests for inquiry.
Meet the Team
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sudao HE
(何苏道)
Machine Learning
Digital Twin
Fitness
Basketball
Badminton
Gang ZHAO
(赵刚)
Defect detection
Constitutive law of interface
Carbon fiber-reinforced composites
Swimming
Daniz TEYMOURI
Structural Health Monitoring
Structural Dynamics
Probabilistic System Identification and Response Reconstruction
Hanqing ZHANG
Structural Health Monitoring;
Intelligent seismic damage assessment of engineered systems;
Post-earthquake structural performance evaluation;
Structural vibration control
Cooking
Hiking
Snowboarding
Graduate Student
Jun CHEN
(陈军)
Advanced Construction Material,
New Computational Methods
Badminton
Hiking
Xuanyi LU
(鲁选一)
Structural Engineering
Optical Fiber Sensors
Basketball
Thriller movies
Pop music
Zetao WANG
(王泽涛)
Finite Element Analysis of Structures
Structural Dynamics
Reading
Movies
Video Games
Featured Publications
- Shenghan Zhang, Han Liu, Sanjay Govindjee, and Matthew DeJong. (2022). Strain Transfer Mechanisms and Mechanical Properties of Optical Fiber Cables. Sensors, 22(24), 9966.
- Shenghan Zhang, Han Liu, Esam Darwish, Khalid Mosalam, and Matthew DeJong. (2022). Distributed fiber-optic strain sensing of an innovative reinforced concrete beam–column connection. Sensors, 22(10), 3957.
- Peter Hubbard, James Xu, Shenghan Zhang, Matthew Dejong, Linqing Luo, Kenichi Soga, Carlo Papa et al. (2021). Dynamic structural health monitoring of a model wind turbine tower using distributed acoustic sensing (DAS). Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring, 11(3), 833-849.
- Tsubasa Sasaki, Shenghan Zhang, Kenichi Soga, Linqing Luo, Barry Freifeld, Yoki Kitayama, Kyojiro Kawaguchi, and Hitoshi Sugiyama. (2021). Distributed fiber optic strain sensing of bending deformation of a well mockup in the laboratory. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 96, 104309.
- Shenghan Zhang, Han Liu, Jeffery Cheng, and Matthew DeJong. (2021). A mechanical model to interpret distributed fiber optic strain measurement at displacement discontinuities. Structural Health Monitoring, 20(5), 2584-2603.
- Han Liu, Shenghan Zhang, Abdoul Coulibaly, Jeffrey Cheng, and Matthew DeJong. (2021). Monitoring reinforced concrete cracking behavior under uniaxial tension using distributed fiber-optic sensing technology. Journal of Structural Engineering, 147(12), 04021212.
- Shenghan Zhang, Han Liu, Abdoul Coulibaly, and Matthew DeJong. (2021). Fiber optic sensing of concrete cracking and rebar deformation using several types of cable. Structural Control and Health Monitoring, 28(2), e2664.
- Michele Godio, Francesco Vanin, Shenghan Zhang, and Katrin Beyer. (2019). Quasi-static shear-compression tests on stone masonry walls with plaster: Influence of load history and axial load ratio. Engineering Structures, 192, 264-278.
- Shenghan Zhang, and Katrin Beyer. (2019). Numerical investigation of the role of masonry typology on shear strength. Engineering Structures, 192, 86–102.
- Shenghan Zhang, Martin Hofmann, and Katrin Beyer. (2018). A 2D typology generator for historical masonry elements. Construction and Building Materials, 184, 440–453.
Gallery
Group Hiking
Lung Ha Wan
19/11/2023