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Dr. Wei Wang is currently a professor in Structural Engineering at Tongji University, China. He received his PhD degree in 2005 from Tongji University, Shanghai, China and worked as a postdoctoral scholar in 2009 at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. In 2008, he received Nominated Award of the National Excellent PhD. Thesis from Chinese Ministry of Education. He has published more than thirty SCI-indexed journal articles and numerous peer-reviewed conference papers. Dr. Wang served as the PI of two research projects funded by National Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He is a deputy director of the Technical Administrative Committee of China Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance for Building Industrialization (CBIA, China). He also serves as an executive editor for the Journal of Frontier of Structural and Civil Engineering (an international journal). His research interests focus on earthquake resistant steel structures and disproportionate collapse behavior of steel structures under extreme loading.
Dr. Tak-Ming Chan graduated from the University of Hong Kong, China in 2001 with a first class honours degree in Civil Engineering. He started his structural engineering career by joining Arup (Hong Kong) as a graduate structural engineer. He received his master’s degree with Distinction in Structural Steel Design in 2004, and was awarded a PhD. in the area of Tubular Structures in 2008, both from Imperial College London, United Kingdom.
Dr. Chan is currently an Assistant Professor in Structural Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and an honorary academic staff at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. He is a chartered member of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE, United Kingdom) and was recently appointed as Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Steel Construction (Hong Kong Branch). Dr Chan is a committee member of the United Kingdom mirror group for Eurocode 3 on Steel Structures and a committee member of the Structural Members Committee of the Technical Administrative Committee on Metals, the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI, American Society of Civil Engineers, United States).
Dr. Chan also serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Advances in Structural Engineering and a member of the Editorial Board for: Structures and Buildings (the Institution of Civil Engineers, United Kingdom), Advanced Steel Construction (an international journal), Steel and Composite Structures (an international journal) and International Journal of Earthquake and Impact Engineering. Dr Chan’s current research interests focus on tubular structures, composite steel-concrete structures and earthquake engineering.
Dr. Yunfeng Zhang is currently a professor of Structural Engineering at University of Maryland. He completed his PhD degree from the California Institute of Technology in 2001, MS degree from the Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1996, and BE from Tongji University, China in 1993. His research interests are in the general area of earthquake engineering and structural health monitoring technology. Dr. Zhang’s research program has received external funding support totaling $6.24 million from diverse sources including the National Science Foundation (11 competitively awarded NSF grants), U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, US Air Force Research Office, and state funding. He has published 50 refereed journal articles and numerous peer-reviewed conference papers, technical reports, and book chapters. In 2006, Dr. Zhang received the NSF CAREER Award for interdisciplinary research in smart structures technology and innovative education activities. He also won the Best Paper Award from the ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineering) Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering in 2006.
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Wang, W., Chan, TM. & Zhang, Y. Special issue on resilience in steel structures. Front. Struct. Civ. Eng. 10, 237–238 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11709-016-0360-z
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