Name: Zhijian Qiu
Gender: Male
Degree: Ph.D
Title: Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Soil liquefaction and soil-structure interaction; Computational geomechanics
Courses Taught: Offshore Geotechnical Engineering; Big Data and Cloud Computing
Office: 505
Tel(O):+86 156-9592-3170
Email: ZhijianQiu@xmu.edu.cn
Education Background:
2015.9-2020.12 Ph.D, University of California San Diego
2021.8-Present, Assistant Professor, Xiamen University, China
2021.1-2021.7, Postdoc, University of California San Diego
Honors and Awards:
2015-2017，Dr. Huang Memorial Scholarship Fund, University of California San Diego USA
2015, Excellent Master’s thesis of Fujian Province
Research Grants:
1. 2015-2018, Liquefaction-induced lateral spreading effects on bridge foundation systems, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).
2. 2014-2018, US-Egypt cooperative research: seismic risk assessment of wind turbine towers in Zafarana wind farm Egypt, The National Science Foundation (NSF).
3.2020-2022, Meshfree large-strain framework for seismic response of ground structural systems. Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER).
Representative publications (numbers and quantities are self-defined)
1. Journal Articles: Title, the Publication of the Journal, Volume, Period, Publication Time
1. Qiu, Z. and Elgamal, A. (2020). “Numerical simulations of LEAP centrifuge tests for seismic response of liquefiable sloping ground.” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 139, 106378.
2. Qiu, Z., Lu, J., Elgamal, A., Su, L., Wang, N. and Almutairi, A. (2019). “OpenSees Three-Dimensional Computational Modeling of Ground-Structure Systems and Liquefaction Scenarios.” Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 120(3), 629-656.
3. Qiu, Z., Ebeido, A., Almutairi1, A., Lu, J., Elgamal, A., Shing, B., and Martin, G. (2019). “Aspects of bridge-ground seismic response and liquefaction-induced deformations.” Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, 49(4), 375-393.
4. Qiu, Z. and Elgamal, A. (2019). “Three-dimensional modeling of strain softening soil response for seismic loading applications”. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 146(7), 04020053.
5. Li, Y., Huang, S., Lin, C., Gu, Q. and Qiu, Z. (2017). “Response sensitivity analysis for plastic plane problems based on direct differentiation method.” Computers & Structures, 182, 392-403.
6. Gao, Y., Gu, Q., Qiu, Z. and Wang, J. (2016). “Seismic response sensitivity analysis of coupled dam-reservoir-foundation systems.” Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 142(10), 04016070.
7. Gu, Q., Qiu, Z. and Huang, S. (2015). “A modified multi-yield-surface plasticity model: Sequential closest point projection method.” Computers and Geotechnics, 69, 378-395.
8. Zayed, M., Ebeido, A., Prabhakaran, A., Qiu, Z. and Elgamal, A. (2021). “Asymmetric input motion for accumulation of lateral ground deformation in laminar container shake table testing.” Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 58(2), 210-223.
9. Zayed, M., Ebeido, A., Prabhakaran, A., Kim, K. Qiu, Z. and Elgamal, A. (2020). “Shake Table Testing: A High-Resolution Vertical Accelerometer Array for Tracking Shear Wave Velocity.” Geotechnical Testing Journal, 44(4).
10. Gu, Q., Zeng, Z., Qiu, Z., and Zheng, P. (2015). “Response sensitivity analysis based on direct differentiation method for soil and structure interaction system.” Journal of Underground Space and Engineering, 2015, 11, 80-86 (in Chinese).
11. Qiu, Z. and Gu, Q. “Implementation of a three-dimensional Cap plasticity concrete model in Opensees.” Journal of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation of Engineering, 2015, (2), 236-241 (in Chinese).
